How Russia buys spare parts for Boeing and Airbus passenger aircraft after the introduction of Western sanctions against it, the media have established. Russia, through Turkey, the UAE and China, was able to purchase parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft for almost $190 million.
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This was reported by Important Stories.
Russian airlines that require spare parts have many ways to circumvent sanctions. The easiest one is to buy them in a “friendly” country (that is, not in the West), the publication writes.
More often, Moscow buys spare parts from the Dubai company Ats Heavy Equipment & Machinery. For more than a year, it made more than 700 deliveries to Russia.
Mostly spare parts for Boeing and Airbus reached the Aeroflot group, which, in addition to Aeroflot itself, includes the companies Rossiya and Pobeda.
The beneficiaries of the UAE company Griffon, which often supplies aircraft spare parts to the Russian Federation, are Irina Gorokhovskaya and Ilya Risev. Risev founded two companies in Russia, Simplex and Ameritech, which supply aircraft parts. Gorokhovskaya worked at Simplex as the head of the logistics department.
Also, the Moldovan company Max Jet Service has been sending aircraft spare parts for Boeing and Airbus to the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war. The founder of Max Jet Service turned out to be Russian Sergei Rang. Journalists wanted to get a comment from him, but he avoided it.
Judging by customs data, the Russian airline Air Fly bought aircraft parts from the Lithuanian Right Direction Aero – spare parts from European and American manufacturers, in particular for Boeing, the publication writes.
The company supplied temperature sensors, toilet bowls, screws and nuts.
The director and owner of Right Direction Aero, Pavel Chalapov, assured that he does not enter into agreements with Russia, thoroughly checks his clients for connections with the Russian Federation and obliges them to sign declarations that they will not resell spare parts to people and companies under sanctions.
It is indeed noted in the customs databases that the Lithuanian Right Direction Aero sold Air Fly goods on behalf of Cargoline. It seems that according to the documents, the spare parts were going to Kyrgyzstan, but in reality they were going to Russia, journalists pointed out.
Source: Racurs
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