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Military Technology Dept: HOUSTON - The man U.S. authorities claim led a plot to funnel cutting-edge military technology to Russia kept a low profile in his suburban Houston neighbourhood and was unknown to leaders in the city's Russian community, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Hearings begin Friday for Fishenko and seven others arrested by authorities this week to determine whether bail will be granted. None of the defendants has entered a plea. Their cases are expected to be transferred to New York, where the indictment was filed and the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters seen reflected in a shop window in Moscow on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. US prosecutors allege that naturalized U.S. citizen Alexander Fishenko and six others "engaged in a surreptitious and systematic conspiracy" to obtain highly regulated technology from U.S. makers and sold them to Russian authorities. Fishenko and six others charged in the alleged scheme are expected to appear Thursday morning in U.S. Houston federal court. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Alexander Fishenko, an immigrant from Kazakhstan, was running a Houston-based company that obtained highly regulated technology and clandestinely exported it to Russia for use by that country's military and intelligence agencies, according to U.S. authorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.