DOJ Announces Prison Sentence for Exporting U.S. Aircraft Components to Russia

DOJ announced that Yana Leonova, a Belarusian citizen most recently residing in Russia, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for violating the Export Control Reform Act. Leonova pleaded guilty on May 20, 2026, to her role in procuring U.S.-origin aircraft components and routing them through Armenia to Russia without required Commerce Department licenses. According to court documents and her plea admissions, the scheme involved dozens of components and millions of dollars in payments. The court also ordered her deportation to Belarus after imprisonment.