MOSCOW, July 11 (RAPSI) – Russian national Dmitry Ustinov has pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of Delaware to conspiring to export military technology, including night vision equipment, in violation of federal law, according to the court records.

Ustinov accepted a plea agreement Thursday. “The defendant agrees to plead guilty to Count One of the Superseding Indictment, which charges him with conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act, Title 22, United States Code, Section 2778, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 22 Code of Federal. At or bout the time of sentencing on Count One of the Superseding Indictment, the United States agrees to dismiss the remaining Counts of the Superseding Indictment against the defendant.,” the court records read.

US investigators reportedly found that in 2010 Ustinov wrote an e-mail to a co-conspirator asking to buy him night vision equipment. Between July 2010 and October 2012, Ustinov allegedly acquired and later sold at least 13 items of military-oriented night vision equipment including PVS-14 sights after smuggling them out of the United States.

Ustinov was detained at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania last April after he arrived from the US to purportedly negotiate a deal to sell night-vision equipment used by the US military. In August  Lithuania fulfilled a US request to extradite him.

According to his official case summary, Ustinov faces in the US nine counts, including: two counts of conspiracy to defraud the US, two counts of conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, two counts of illegal export or the attempt thereof, two counts of smuggling goods contrary to US law, two counts of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The sentencing date for Ustinov was set for October 2.