RF Missiles Components: Who in the US and Switzerland helps the aggressor
Such data were presented by investigators at a meeting of the US Helsinki Commission in Congress. "The paradox is that Switzerland has a categorical position on participation in any armed conflict. They emphasize neutrality. Then how did they become the first country in Europe to supply critical components for Russian weapons?" - asks the Executive Director of the Independent Anti -Corruption Committee on Defense Olena Tregub.
After Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Austria and France go. Some of the military equipment is made by Japan. The first place in the world among the countries of the West was taken by manufacturers from the United States, added Tregub. "In Russian weapons, we have found about 300 components made by 60 different American companies. Unfortunately, it is a leading country in the Western world that supplies to the Russians important dual use components," she said.
Swiss banks help Moscow avoid sanctions and export controls to replenish military inventories. The co -founder of the anti -corruption project OCCRP DRU Sullivan notes that the figure of $ 200 billion is highly low. Switzerland's financial institutions control the trillions of dollars. Money comes from offshore companies and other structures around the world that are difficult to track. In fact, Russians store up to $ 400 billion in Switzerland, Sullivan said.
The issues of Western companies on the market of Russia, China and Iran have become relevant recently, says Oleksandr Kraev, director of the North America "North America" of the North America "North America" Ukrainian Prism. Most Western sanctions, he said, were concentrated on state -owned companies in the Russian Federation, Iran and China. Private business was paid little attention, because it was believed that it would not have a major impact on supply chains.
"Americans have shown how to act on the example of China. Ukraine needs to take sanctions and begin to develop restrictions for specific private projects. It is necessary to say that the states do not cover businessmen who trade dual -use goods with Russia, as evidenced by the performance of investigators in Congress," he said. In the US, two years ago, they approved a resolution by which large international banks should transfer information about stakeholders to the Ministry of Justice.
Russians, Iranians and Chinese have been working in such restrictions for many years. According to the expert, during this time they created a complex and reasonable system of bypassing sanctions from dozens of gaskets and payment systems. "This is one of the reasons why Wagner's PEC is working in Africa.
Large amounts of money go through companies on this continent, from which the Chinese have been squeezed over the last 10 years," - added Kraev of dual -use supplies in the Russian Federation depends on specific companies. Some sent goods to impose sanctions against Russia, and Switzerland did not formally introduce them at all, pays attention to the head of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, security expert Alexei Hedzhak.
"Russia could not use the components set by the US and Switzerland. In any case, it is necessary to raise noise and talk about it on all platforms," he explained the focus. The pumping of the Russian weapons, according to the expert, is clearly not part of the policy of two countries. The problem is carefully monitoring the compliance of sanctions, which made Iran massively received military components from the West since the 1980s.
"The main problem is the so -called" gray "importers and production in China, which copies microchips. Most likely, American and Swiss components in control systems, optics and individual nodes that the Russian Federation receives illegally. Recall that contrary to the sanctions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation this year could receive 12 new fighters "SU". The restrictions of the event do not greatly affect the military aircraft.