Two years ago, 20 federal agents donning full tactical gear and assault rifles raided the Hillside home of Anchorage resident Sergey Nefedov at 6 am. His teenage son and girlfriend were placed in handcuffs and much of his property was seized under a bogus federal search warrant. The agents were part of a Department of Justice Task Force comprising the FBI, Homeland Security, and Department of Commerce.
This Landmine article from June 2024, “Feds send armed agents to raid Hillside home and arrest man accused of trying to sell snowmachines in Russia,” details the absurdity of the case.
Nefedov and another man, Mark Shumovich, faced federal charges for what the government said was illegally attempting to export snow machines to Russia. The Department of Justice put out a 1,000 word press release that read like it was written during the Cold War. The government claimed snow machines are “luxury goods” and made it seem the snow machines in question were somehow going to aid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The snow machines were supposed to go to Kamchatka, a region 4,500 miles from Ukraine. Kamchatka is closer to Alaska than Ukraine…