Megazrada: Sanctions against Crimea are bypassed by Germany, Norway and... Ukraine itself
The number of Western companies wishing to circumvent the sanctions imposed against Crimea will rapidly increase if the police in Germany and Norway recognize as legal the scheme for supplying ilmenite concentrate to the Crimean Titan plant, owned by Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
The Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week” writes about this today.
It is reported that proceedings in Norway and Germany are taking place based on the facts set out in a journalistic investigation by the Ukrainian publication Blackseanews, which was published in December 2017.
German ships transported ilmenite from Norway to the Kerch Strait, where they reloaded it directly into the sea onto Russian ships. However, Norwegian ore made up only a small fraction of the ilmenite for Crimean Titan, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The main supplies came from Ukraine - from the state plant.
“The beginning of the chain is in Ukraine, in the sphere of management of the Ukrainian government, within the competence of the Security Service of Ukraine and in the field of political responsibility of the president and the entire National Security and Defense Council. “Crimean Titan” could not work without Ukrainian ilmenite (supplies from Norway are a trifle), but at the Irshansky mining and processing plant, they probably also don’t know who they are actually selling it to.
The essence of the “ilmenite scheme” is that each of its links begins with the purchase of ilmenite concentrate from the Ukrainian state (!) Irshansky Mining and Processing Plant by intermediary companies; “export” to Russia through Turkish ports before reloading at an anchorage or outside the raid of a Russian port on Russian ships, formally does not violate the legislation of Ukraine and is not subject to sanctions - Western and ours,” the publication writes.
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