Russian national accused of filing fraudulent voter registration applications in Pinellas officially pleads guilty

A Russian national has pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit fraudulent voter registrations, and four counts of submitting fraudulent voter registrations.

Dmitry Shushlebin, of Miami Beach, entered his guilty plea on Friday at the federal courthouse in Tampa before Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone.

Shushlebin and alleged fellow conspirator Sanjar Jamilov pleaded guilty to submitting 132 fraudulent voter registration applications to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections in February and March of 2023. The pair submitted applications in names other than their own, in envelopes with return address labels that were all identically formatted and that contained the same typographic errors…

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