German filters installed at russian power plants in occupied Crimea bypassing sanctions

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Despite EU sanctions banning European companies from exporting their goods to the russian-occupied Crimea, German brand Inge GmbH has installed filtration equipment at two Crimean power plants, Tavria and Balaklava, radiosovobda.org reported.

A Lithuanian firm, which has close ties with the top managers of russia’s state oil and gas company Rosneft and, through a number of companies, with putin’s ally in Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk, was involved. This is stated in a joint investigation of the Lithuanian National Broadcaster (LRT), the Scanner project, and the Ukrainian service of Radio Svoboda.

Lithuanian journalists drew attention to a video of the russian company Voronezh-Aqua, one of the contractors for the construction of two Crimean power plants, which was responsible for water treatment. The video from these TPPs shows which filtration units are installed there.

Investigators also noticed the same installations with purple markings on another video – the local TV channel “Vesti Sevastopol”. The journalists found out that the manufacturer of filtration equipment at the Crimean thermal power plants is the German brand Inge GmbH.

Data from the ImportGenius import-export operations database confirm that the russian company Voronezh-Aqua imported German filtration membranes from the Inge GmbH brand through Lithuania. Their seller on the Lithuanian side was Run Engineering, a company registered in Kaunas.

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