Russia, bypassing sanctions, purchases microelectronics for weapons production - media
Journalists have studied microelectronics suppliers for the Russian defense for their investigation and found among them employees of Zara clothing stores and elite water "God's dew". The authors of the material remind that in August, members of the Royal Joint Institute of Defense Research (Rusi) published a report on the analysis of details for staffing found in the abandoned or seized weapons of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the territory of Ukraine.
Experts have been able to find in samples about 450 different types of imported electronic components produced in Japan, Taiwan and different countries in Europe, but mostly in the United States. For example, Rusi members were given an operative-tactical "Orlan-10" drone, which is equipped with a Sony Japanese camera with the American engine Hextronik, a system of control on the microcontroller of Swiss Stmicroelectronics and the Japanese company Saito Seisakus.
J'Son & Partners Consulting estimated that about 75% of the chips used in Russia in 2021 were imported. Since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has received 15 thousand supply of foreign electronic components and without American details for staffing, according to experts, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation would be unsuitable for use.
According to journalists, Russia in the context of international sanctions is invented by various schemes that allow control. Intermediaries from the United States, for example, hide from sellers that the product will go to the needs of the Russian army, or simply falsify data on exported products. In the investigation, journalists told the history of the Bauman Leonid Narshin MDTU graduate, who in 2019 posted an ad with his offer to his friends to issue a card in one of Russian banks.
Instead, a man would receive a thousand rubles by referral. "Ordinary history for social networks. That's just a person's largest co-owner of one of the largest companies for the sale In 2019, it has made more than 4. 4 billion rubles. "Special-Ek" concludes contracts with the largest Russian enterprises in the field of defense, for example, with the Northern Raid plant, which is engaged Systems of counteraction to drones and radio intelligence complexes, " - said in the material.
Special-Ek was created in 2007, and since its foundation of the company was divided equally between Narshin and Victoria Demyanova. But the woman, apparently, had a share in a firm with a billion-dot, also did not bring riches: as the founder of "special-e", she worked as a seller at Zara's clothes. Leonid Narshin in his summary of 2009 has indicated that since 1997 he has been working as a system administrator and has been supporting the work of computers and office equipment.
The investigators were also suspected by Laboratory Assistant Olga Buterin in the companies for the sale of drinking water "God's dew" and "Crystal Dew". Since 2016, a woman is considered the owner of NTI Energy, which is a large supplier of details for staffing, including for the Russian defense sphere. The solving in the history of the laboratory assistant, as journalists suggest, in the hometown of Olga Novosibirsk.
From there, Ella Schlothauer, a NTI GmbH director, a German concern that sells electronic components of brands such as Siemens and General Electric. NTI GmbH owned 60% of its Russian representation since its foundation in 2014 - the company was founded just a month before the occupation of Ukrainian Crimea. As of 2019, NTI Energy had access to the supply of western electronic parts for the assembly for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
For the purchase of sanction equipment between defense companies and Russian suppliers, the gaskets can be created. The authors of the material, as an example, are called the State Corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons", which conducted all tenders through the company "Zvezda-Strel". This company belonged to the makeup artists Olga Zorikova, who, for its part, is the daughter of CEO of the corporation.
The concern "Radioelectronic Technologies" - a manufacturer of weapons in Rostech - also has such a supplier. Radio Pribrosnab is a mediator through which the companies that are part of the concern are engaged in the purchase of electronic components. According to the company's reporting, the Radio Primbsnab is, in fact, the Cretan Procurement Department.
In total, there are more than 70 enterprises in the concern, and the company itself is responsible for the supply of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of radio electronic fighting systems. Radio Pribrosnab turnover in 2021 amounted to almost 10 billion rubles, and the last major agreement was a contract with RTKT Limited worth more Karen Garibyana. The man was born in Pyatigorsk, by education - a radio engineer.
"Electronics would be more difficult for Russian buyers if their Western partners were not interested in it. They also use different cunning schemes that can be found in criminal cases that have been violated in the United States against American exporters of electronic details for staffing. The basis of one.
From such cases, a letter, which in the late 2000s, the Russian company "Apex of Systems" received from the FSB-the service complained that the chips, which she put "Apex" is defective and demanding replacement. This letter hit the FBI's hands, after which "Apex "And the American company Arc Electronics, created by the native of Russia, Alexander Fishchenko, came under investigation," the investigators said in their material.
According to journalists, employees of this firm were charged with illegal export of high -tech microelectronics from the United States to the Russian military and special services, and in eight years of supply, the supply was about $ 50 million. . Recall that in mid -July, The Wall Street Journal reported twice the supply of Chinese chips that allow Russia to wage a full -scale war against Ukraine. Focus also told how international sanctions would prevent Russia from buying powerful chips.