The Merrimack dad who used his home business as a shipping hub for an international spy ring busted for smuggling high-tech weapons and ammunition to Russia apologized for his role in the scheme.

“I am deeply sorry,” Alexey Brayman, 38, said in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., last week. “I regret the harm I caused.

Brayman was arrested in 2022 at his Merrimack home where he and his wife, Daria Brayman, supposedly operated a home-based business that sold craft goods and nightlights on Etsy. In reality, Alexey Brayman was part of the Serniya Engineering (Serniya) and Sertal LLC (Sertal) operation that was sending illegally purchased and highly sensitive, export-controlled electronic components to Russia.

Some of those components can be used in the development of nuclear and hypersonic we

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