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Freight Manager Jailed for Smuggling US Oil Equipment to Russia

A US freight forwarder has been jailed in one of the more revealing sanctions-evasion cases of the year—a quiet reminder that the front line of the export-controls fight runs through ordinary logistics offices. Natalya Ivanovna Mazulina, the Western Regional Manager of Delex Air Cargo LLC, was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $77,000 in criminal proceeds. Delex is based in Jamaica, New York, and operates out of JFK and Seattle-Tacoma international airports.

From December 2022 through December 2024, Mazulina conspired with Russian freight forwarding companies to ship controlled items—including industrial oil and gas equipment—from the United States to Russia via intermediary countries. To hide the true destination, she submitted false export documents to the US government, omitting that the goods were Russia-bound.

The internal evidence was damning. In June 2023, Mazulina told colleagues her clients were paying through bank accounts in third-party countries because “most of her clients were currently sanctioned" She was arrested in December 2024 and pled guilty in October 2025 to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act.

US Attorney Joseph Nocella framed the case in stark terms. "The Russian oil and gas industry is the lifeblood that fuels the Russian war machine," he said, calling out the defendant for putting profits above national security. Freight forwarders sit at the chokepoint of export compliance—a single regional manager with false paperwork was enough to move sanctioned equipment for two years. Expect tighter scrutiny on intermediary-country routings ahead. See Release

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