HOUSTON (MCT) — Eleven alleged members of a clandestine procurement network were indicted in connection with what prosecutors say was a $50 million conspiracy designed “to steal American technologies for the Russian government.”

The grand jury indictment was unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., but many of the defendants were arrested in Texas. One, Alexander Posobilov, appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Houston as prosecutors began seeking defendants’ transfer to Brooklyn for trial.