A 58-year-old Bellevue, Washington and Las Vegas man, Andrey A. Balun, pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle to conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce. His 53-year-old business partner, Vitaliy F. Bobak of Federal Way, Washington, was charged in the same case for operating a large-scale trafficking scheme through Amazon and eBay, as reported by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The pair operated out of a Burien storefront called “We Buy Gold, Silver, and Electronics,” under Balun’s company MBA Trading LLC, which Bobak became a 50 percent owner of in 2019. They purchased stolen over-the-counter medications and health and beauty products at low prices and resold them online through the Amazon store “Medikus” and the eBay store “abcstore555,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office…