Suburban businessman illegally exported gun portions to Ukraine

The former proprietor of a Buffalo Grove drilling-equipment corporate allegedly exported rifle barrels and different gun portions to the Ukraine in opposition to U.S. regulation over a three-year length. Glen Stepul, 33, previously of Wheeling, concealed the gun portions in shipments declared as “household goods,” “cosmetics,” “toys,” “stationary,” and “cassettes,” in step with an indictment by way of the U.S. Attorney’s administrative center for the Northern District of Illinois. The feds additionally charged Ukrainian resident Andriy Yakin, 38, within the scheme to export pistol slides, gun barrels, scopes and night-vision cameras from the United States to Ukraine between 2014 and 2016, in step with the indictment. Some of the exports had been allegedly hidden in shipments of drilling kit