The senior regional manager of the American technology company Extreme Networks Inc, Sergey Gusakov, created his own company in April 2022 to supply Russian customers with IT equipment manufactured by a competitor of his employer. Writes about it Reuters June 28th.
Extreme Networks Inc said last year that it had suspended all of its activities in Russia to show solidarity with Ukraine. However, Gusakov, who was in charge of the former republics of the USSR, did not stop doing business there, the agency writes.
Reuters cites two people familiar with the situation, as well as Russian corporate and customs records.
Information equipment sold in Russia by Gusakov’s company Vector-T is assembled in China and contains US microprocessors, the publication says. Thus, microprocessors produced by American chip manufacturers, which banned the sale of their products to Russia, were built into Chinese equipment and ended up in the Russian Federation.
It is noted that in the summer of 2022, Gusakov’s colleague warned Extreme’s top management that his participation in Russian technology sales could violate the company’s rules. The organization said the matter is being investigated by the company’s legal department and an external consultant.
Gusakov himself answered the agency’s question: “This is fiction.”
Context:
In November 2022, Ukrainian military intelligence reported that as a result of international sanctions, Russian military production capabilities were significantly reduced and Russian arms factories could produce about 40 new missiles per month.
In February, Ukrainian intelligence reported that Russia was trying to carry out import substitution and simplify the production of weapons, sacrificing their quality.
Now the Russian Federation is finding ways to circumvent sanctions, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said. Ukraine notifies its partners about the facts of circumvention of sanctions. Zelensky emphasized that as many global players as possible should be “absolutely principled in respecting the sanctions regime against Russia for terror.”
On June 6, 2023, the President of Ukraine said that in terms of compliance with anti-Russian sanctions, “there are questions for India, for China, for some European countries, for representatives of Latin America, for Turkey.”
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2023-06-28 19:37:13
