NEW-YORK, November 9 - RAPSI. The attorneys of Russian citizen Viktoria Klebanova, who is accused of illegally exporting hi-tech electronic devices to Russia from the United States, are planning to stop offering their services at the court hearings, as they believe that their client will not be able to pay them, attorney Arkady Bukh told RIA Novosti.

The first hearings in the Arc Electronic export case have been set for Friday at a Brooklyn court.

There is a total of 11 defendants in the case, three of them have been placed on the wanted list. Four of the eight arrested - Viktoria Klebanova, Alexander Fishenko, Alexander Posobilov and Anastasia Dyatlova - have U.S. and Russian passports. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that it considers them Russian citizens and has promised to support them.

Klebanova will be provided with a new lawyer, whose services will be paid for by the state.

Fishenko and Dyatlova have already asked for pro bono lawyers.

Federal prosecutors in New York reported earlier that 11 members of an alleged secret Russian military procurement network have been charged with illegally shipping sophisticated microelectronics to Russia's military and intelligence agencies.

The FBI arrested the alleged ringleader, 46-year-old Alexander Fishenko, and seven others on October 3-4. They also executed search warrants at seven residences and business locations and seized assets from five bank accounts. The Department of Justice believes three other suspects remain at-large and have already returned to Russia.

The charges read that Fishenko had been running an elaborate scheme since 2008 that tricked customs agents into believing that his company - the Houston-based Arc Electronics, Inc. - manufactured and shipped routine products to Russia. Instead, the suspects provided Russia with "controlled, sensitive technologies" that can be used for radar and surveillance and weapons guidance systems, as well as detonation triggers.

The Russian Foreign Ministry previously issued a statement demanding that the U.S. stop applying psychological pressure on the arrested Russian citizens and forcing them to plead guilty.