Austria Uncovers €3.3 Million Sanctions-Busting Exports for Russian Missile Engines
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Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Aug 10
Austria Uncovers €3.3 Million Sanctions-Busting Exports for Russian Missile Engines
3 articles · Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Aug 10
Summary
A Vienna-based company shipped more than €3.3 million in industrial goods to Russian arms manufacturers since 2022, with investigators now linking the equipment to engines for cruise missiles and fighter jets.
Austria's Interior Ministry said the firm falsified end-user certificates to move sanctioned CNC machines and specialized metalworking tools to companies tied to Rostec, Russia's state-owned defense conglomerate.
A 28-year-old Belarusian executive was arrested in May, and authorities seized about €140,000 worth of CNC machines and tools the same day; evidence also came from four raids conducted last August.
The ministry said the company hid shipments through shell companies in Türkiye, the UAE, Hong Kong, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Poland and Lithuania, underscoring how Russian procurement networks still exploit third countries despite EU sanctions.