The Russians stole a batch of seeds of Ukrainian sunflower and sold it to the Turks - an investigation

According to journalists, sunflower seeds were stolen in the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region. In January 2024, the Russian GAM Express ship loaded into the occupied Feodosia (Crimea) of the sunflower seeds of 2850. 95 tons. According to the investigation of the project Seakrime and Kiborg, this party was stolen from the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region. The GAM Express Sukhovka, registered in Romania, arrived in Feodosia on December 12, 2023 and left the port on January 10, 2024.

During this time, the ship was loaded with sunflower seeds, which was delivered to Theodosius by motor transport. According to the documents received by Seakrime journalists, the Sunflower Send Signor - Russian Agrogroup LLC. The company is registered in the Leningrad region, but its director and founder have Ukrainian passports. Cargo recipient is a Turkish company VTC Tarım ürünleri Gıda San Ve Tic Ltd şi.

The investigation also indicates that sunflower seeds were stolen in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region. In particular, two parties of sunflower seeds that were loaded on the GAM Express ship were sent from Kuibyshevsky and Pologovsky districts of Zaporizhzhya region. The vessel received the phytosanitary certificate No. 792236306100124002 for a batch of sunflower seeds, decorated by the responsible official of the Feodosia Customs Post Olga Ivanovna.

Information from the Importgenius base indicates that the four parties of sunflower oil were imported by the Turkish company VTC Tarım ürünleri Gıda San Ve Ve Tic Ltd şi from Russia in 2022-23. The investigation also found that the state grain operator (DOP DZO) issued quarantine certificates for parties of sunflower seeds, which arrived in the occupied Theodosius from Zaporizhzhia region, where he was engaged in the export of agro -products.

The SEAKRIME project received by the KIBORG community confirms the illegal GAM Express Sudzhide to Feodosia, as well as the details of the contract between the agro -group and the Turkish company Trans World Agro Tarim İRacat ̇thalat Li. On January 12, 2024, the GAM Express ship arrived in the Turkish port of Samsun to unload the stolen party of Ukrainian sunflower seeds.

The vessel is in the basis of violators of the monitoring group of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies and the editorial board of Blackseanews. "The ship in the occupied Theodosius was very similar to our old acquaintance, who in the period 2017-2019 carried out illegal ships in the occupied Crimea.

We conducted identification, for comparison, photos of the Feodosia port were used for comparison Gam Express (IMO: 8204119, MMSI: 630001033, Call Sign: J5ae2, Flag: Guinea-Bissau [GW]), which during 2017-2019 performed illegal navigation in the occupied Crimea. The name Lady Eman, Narsis and Haje Amira under the flags of Tanzania, both Lebanon, "the journalists said.