Russia continues to purchase Ukrainian aircraft engines using a complex scheme
The enterprise of Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy Vyacheslav Boguslaev JSC Motor Sich continues to sell aircraft engines and their components to Moscow.
The corresponding investigation was carried out by journalists from the Bihus info program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Kononenko and Boguslaev own a number of Russian companies that service, repair and export to Russia engines manufactured by the Ukrainian Motor Sich. After the occupation of Crimea and the beginning of aggression in the Donbass, they continued to serve the Russians, in particular the aircraft of the Rossiya flight squad. This is a state company that serves the entire top bureaucracy and even the board of the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin.
In just two years, from 2015 to 2017, Boguslaev’s Russian company received more than $3,5 million in contracts from the FSB,” the authors of the story note.
However, the channel reported that since the beginning of last year, direct deliveries have ceased, and a more complex scheme has begun to operate - export through Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“In 2018, the supply pattern changed. According to information from our sources, since the beginning of 2018, direct supplies of engine parts to Russia have abruptly stopped. Motor Sich began supplying to the Russian Federation only engines for lawn mowers, milk separators and equipment for power plants. But we noticed several important changes. "218 Aircraft Repair Plant", despite the cessation of direct export of Motor Sich products, continued to purchase spare parts for TV3-117 engines.
In turn, Motor Sich unexpectedly found a new buyer for its parts in the Balkans. Engine parts and power plants began to be exported to Bosnia and Herzegovina. These are the same parts that were sent to Russia a year earlier. During the year, Motor Sich sent more than 600 cargoes to Bosnia. The recipient company is DOO Inzeniring BN, which was created two months before the start of active exports of Ukrainian parts.
The owners of this campaign are far from Bosnians, but Russians - ex-deputy chief of staff of the Russian Military Aviation Valery Avtushenko, now works as director of one of Boguslaev’s Russian companies, Aviaremont-MS. The second owner, former commander of the military transport aviation of the Russian Federation Viktor Denisov, also works for the Boguslaev company in Russia “VKMS”, which supplies parts for the Russian army.
Whole caravans of bolts, screws, and various power units for the engine began to go to Bosnia. And they didn’t stay in the Balkans for long. According to the international customs database, this Bosnian company sent cargo with the corresponding parts for helicopters to Russia, and exclusively to the companies of Vyacheslav Boguslaev,” the journalist concluded.
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