Inspanded through the Slovenian branch despite the sanctions exported to Russia

Technology Consortium Control based in Austria is through its Slovenian branch despite sanctions against Moscow Due to invasion in Ukraine, exporting telecommunications technology to Russia, today reveals a Brussels online medium Politics.

His investigative journalists found that the Slovenian subsidiary was controlled, the controlled doo, through the Russian branch of Iskra Technologies, at the end of 2023, exported to Russia by 3.5 million telecommunications equipmentalthough sanctions against Putin’s regime were already in force at the time. After writing Politician It is a SI3000 multi -stage node with double use that can monitor and intercept communication.

Export restriction advanced technologies and technologies With double use in Russia, it came into force in June 2023.

How do they answer in the company

The parent company is in answers to the questions Politician stated that shipments that included high -tech goods and double -use goods were allowed due to export permits issued by the Slovenian Government prior to the introduction of sanctions. Following the entry into force 11. Sanctions of sanctions in June 2023, the company stopped all new shipments and supplied only approved export consignments in accordance with the issued export permits, they explained.

EU double -use technology sanctions should apply to all new and existing contracts, including those signed before the start of sanctions. However, they include some individual exceptions for cyber, rescue and medical technology, with companies allegedly obtaining the EU Member States where they are established to fulfill these orders, according to Politics.

Commission without comment

The controllation, according to the writing of the Brussels portal, points out that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine he has significantly reduced his investments in Russia, and he has also reduced the number of employees from almost 600 to 240, but is still present in the Russian market through Iskra Technologies, which has been on the list of companies for which sanctions have been in place since the end of 2024.

Slovenian branch control is based on the information obtained Politicsstill the 48.4 % owner of Iskra Technologies. Who owns the remaining 51.6 percent of this company did not want to disclose the control.

European Commission spokesman Olof Gill is behind Politics Said that the Commission does not comment on individual cases of sanctions violations. He stressed, however, that both the sanctions and the imposition of violations and the punishment of a responsible Member State are for the implementation of sanctions.

However, as the portal writes, the case has raised questions about the ability of Russia to also take into account the limitations of the key technology, and to encourage calls to tighten the sanctions regime. Roderich Kiesewettera member of the German CDU and a former NATO employee, noted, among other things,: “The lack of Western technology in Russia is a serious blow to its war economy. Therefore, using complex systems, Russia has repeatedly tried to acquire this technology. «