An Austrian company is suspected of supplying products from Ukraine to the Russian Federation

The directors of an Austrian company controlled by a Russian oligarch are suspected of supplying strategic products from Ukraine to the Russian Federation worth UAH 90 million. It was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The head of the company and the founder are charged with financing actions made for the purpose of forcibly changing the territorial boundaries and state borders of Ukraine, tax evasion and legalization (laundering) of acquired property by criminal means (part 4 of article 110 -2, part 5 of article 27 Part 3, Art 28, Part 3, Art 212, Part 3, Art.

According to the investigation, the suspects are citizens of Ukraine.

“They are part of an organized criminal group that arranged the supply of strategic products from the Ukrainian mining and processing plant to Russian enterprises,” the message stressed.

The Office of the Prosecutor General noted that the group was created by a Russian oligarch – the real beneficiary of a Russian corporation – one of the largest producers of titanium in the world, which, in turn, is part of a Russian state corporation. Rostec.

Since 2012, he owns a Ukrainian mining and processing plant that extracts raw materials containing strategic titanium in the Dnepropetrovsk region, which is used to manufacture a wide range of military and dual-use items .

“From January 2020 to December 2021, an organized criminal group, through an Austrian company, secretly supplied products of a controlled Ukrainian plant to Russian enterprises worth about UAH 90 million The Ministry of Defense of Russia, and is also involved in meeting the needs of the defense industry and the creation of strategic reserves of the aggressor country,” the notification said.

According to the contracts, concentrates containing titanium were supplied to a company registered in Austria, although in fact they were immediately sent to Russian enterprises. They export products at reduced prices.

Earlier, as part of criminal proceedings, suspicion was reported to a Russian oligarch, as well as another member of the group – the former director of a Ukrainian mining and processing plant.

Seizure of corporate rights and the entire property complex, vehicles of mining and processing enterprises, as well as funds placed in bank accounts of the enterprise have also been secured.

“Through the efforts of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Economic Security Service, the Ministry of Justice and the decision of the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court, this property and assets were recovered as state revenue currently, the plant is owned by Ukraine,” the statement said.

By decisions of the National Security and Defense Council, implemented by orders of the President of Ukraine, a number of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) were applied to Russian oligarchs and related legal entities.

We remind you that the SBU has collected evidence on another traitor who is suspected of funding the Russian Guard in the temporarily occupied Crimea.