Naum Morgovsky, 69, of Hillsborough, California, was sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to illegally export components for the production of night-vision and thermal devices to Russia in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, and for laundering the proceeds of the scheme.

On Oct. 31, Naum Morgovsky's spouse and codefendant, Irina Morgovsky, 67, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in the export conspiracy.

According to their guilty pleas, which occurred during the second day of jury selection on June 12, Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky admitted that from at least April 2012 until Aug. 25, 2016, they conspired to export without the necessary license to a company called Infratech in Moscow, Russia, numerous night and thermal vision components, including image intensifier tubes and lenses.  The couple used their U.S. business, Hitek International, to purchase these components and misrepresented to the sellers that the products would not be exported.