Thousands of Units: The Italian Bretta Company supplies weapons to Russia - an investigation
The Russian Eagle has two licenses for the sale of ammunition and the trade in civilian and service weapons and the main parts of firearms. This is stated in the joint investigation of the Russian editions The Irpimedia Yes, on May 19, 2010, the Italian company Beretta Industrie S. P. A. purchased 51% of the shares of the Russian Eagle. A few years after the occupation of Crimea, as a result of a series of transactions Beretta Holding S. A. Inc. (Duchy of Luxembourg) became the owner of 57.
95% of the Russian company. Two years after the start of the war in Ukraine on the main page of the site "Russian Eagle" was written: "The official distributor Beretta Holding in Russia. Regular whowers whose weapons, optics and equipment of foreign production. " The site offers hunters to register their beretta gun to it to get the second year of guarantee for free.
According to Rosakreditation, all two war years continued to receive goods of other weapons, which is owned by the Beretta holding: carbines Benelli, Beretta, Beretta Benelli Iberica, Sako, Sako, Rwes and Tikka, Norma, Army, and Tikka. In the overwhelming number of cases, the importers of these weapons were either LLC "Russian Eagle", which is directly owned by Beretta, or related to the Russian Eagle of Hubuty.
Russian importers do not have a shortage in the production of the holding that in September 2023 the Orel Armed House announced an action with a 20 percent discharge on binoculars and Steiner sights. The information about this can be found in the sniper Telegram channel "Mile", where, in particular, the ammunition is purchased by participants of hostilities and mercenaries of "private" military companies.
Of the total amount of supply of European weapons, almost half of the sanctions are the products of Beretta companies. According to journalists, more than 835 thousand rounds and 5. 9 thousand units of small arms produced by the holding after the invasion of Russia. In the overwhelming number of cases, the importers were LLC "Russian Eagle" and related to it and Hubuty of the firm.
Almost all importing companies by Mikhail Hubutya can be divided into four product groups: guns, hunting rifles, sniper rifles and ammunition for these weapons. Public procurement data show that law enforcement agencies and sports institutions that prepare future shooters continue to buy Beretta holding production products. In a number of cases, their suppliers are Hubatutia.
Beretta holding carbines use not only hunters and athletes: in the posts of the so -called military naval, Finnish rifles are mentioned dozens of times. Yes, Big Battle Panda has recently described how the sniper group "OMUT" performs combat missions with Finnish Tikka Hunter 300 Win Mag. Weapons also continue their supply to Russia. For example, at the end of 2023, the Finnish company Sako launched civilian contracts of more than 3. 4 million euros.
It is noted that the company is part of the Beretta Group. Thus, the partnership between Russian distributors and Beretta remains strong even in the conditions of sanctions. Interestingly, the Benelli brand distributors, which also owns Beretta holding, are in Russia. As the analysis of supply data shows, the Moscow LLC "Italrue" and the Tula LLC "Beretta Archive Company" are actively trading in Italian hunting rifles and automatic rifles.
The latest models presented on the site of the Russian Eagle have the same characteristics as analogues from the Benelli range. Recall that journalists found that the national armed forces of Latvia received products from Russia and Belarus. In particular, they were supplied by Russian tea and Belarusian salt. Earlier it was reported that Moldovan companies, despite the sanctions of the event, supplied airplanes to the Russian Federation.