Austria Busts Vienna Firm's Russia Sanctions-Evasion Scheme
- On Monday, Austria's Interior Ministry disclosed the dismantling of a Vienna-based sanctions-evasion scheme that funnelled more than $3.82 million in industrial goods to Russian arms makers since 2022.
- Utilizing a network of shell companies in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the unnamed firm falsified end-user certificates to supply Rostec-affiliated manufacturers with specialized CNC machines and metalworking tools.
- In May, authorities arrested the 28-year-old Belarusian head of the company and seized specialized CNC machines and tools worth about €140,000, confirming the goods manufactured military engines for cruise missiles and fighter jets.
- Separately, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced sanctions Monday against the Streit Group, an armoured vehicle company run by Russian Canadian Guerman Goutorov, for supplying the Russian National Guard amid the Ukraine war.
- These measures follow similar European Union actions against the Streit Group, as diversion of European machine tools to Russian defence producers remains a recurring pattern despite tightening international export controls.
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In Vienna, the trial was opened against a Belarusian entrepreneur whose company, based in Vienna, is said to have delivered machine tools to the Russian armaments industry despite EU sanctions.
A company in Vienna is said to have tricked with a lot of effort in order to acquire Russian arms companies machines and special tools. Austrian constitutional protection reports on an entire network of fake companies.
Austria has uncovered an international network to circumvent Russia's sanctions. Machines and special tools have entered the Russian armaments industry through several countries.
Belarusian Company Supplied Equipment for Rocket Engines to Russia via Lithuania and Other Countries
The Vienna-based company, in violation of EU sanctions, supplied Russia with equipment intended for the production of EU missile and fighter jet engines through various countries, including Lithuania.
Austria uncovers international network circumventing EU sanctions to supply Russian cruise missiles, jets
"We will continue to take decisive action, with full international cooperation, against those actors who attempt to circumvent legal prohibitions to support the Russian arms industry," Austrian State Secretary Jorg Leichtfried said.
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