Influenced the Russian OPC: the German company sold tools to FSB representatives - the media

According to journalists, in the period from February 2022 to June 2023, the Germans sold to Russians tools worth $ 860 thousand. By September, cooperation has temporarily stopped and has already recovered with another company, which is associated with the special services of the Russian Federation. In spite of international sanctions, the German Heller Tools has continued its cooperation with the Russians. The companies that are associated with the FSB's secret smuggling network have sold tools.

This is stated in The Financial Times. According to journalists, the total amount of the agreement was $ 1. 2 million and the goods were drilled and other Heller Tools. Buyers were companies that are related to the smuggling operation "Series". The material further reminded that this network was created under the guidance of Russian special services to bypass European and American sanctions in order to receive equipment for the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

In the US Department of Justice, journalists write, have already confirmed it. Documents that have hit The Financial Times indicate that the German company declared the sale of goods worth $ 860,000 to representatives of the Trade House Corporation, located in Moscow and related to the Series. There was an agreement between the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine and June 2023. After this period, the supply stopped and happened after the FT journalists appeal to the Germans with questions.

Already in September, Heller Tools began selling products to another Russian firm - Tirex. It was founded in June of that year by a man who worked at Tradetols. Then the Russians purchased goods worth $ 300,000. "When exporting to countries, we usually check whether clients are on sanctions, whether they behave in accordance with the law," said Gening Vorrink, executive director Heller in a comment to journalists.

FT added that the construction tools were included in the EU sanction lists in December 2023 for cooperation with the Russian Federation. This is due to the fact that they can contribute to "increasing the industrial potential of Russia. " In 2022, the US Department of Justice was charged with five persons related to "Serny". Among them was the suspected Colonel of the Russian FSB Vadim Konoschenko. He was detained by Estonian border guards when he tried to escape to the Russian Federation.