Two Finnish companies have been put on the US Russia sanctions list, according to the US Treasury Department’s recent sanctions list.
According to the US Treasury Department, Finnish companies have supplied Russia with foreign electronic products, such as cameras used in drones, efficient optical filters and lithium batteries.
Finnish companies are small, and they are interconnected. Siberica is a company in the storage sector and Luminor is in the forwarding and chartering sector.
Luminor and Siberica have a small number of employees, and they are connected to each other. He works as CEO in both companies Gabriel Teminwho, according to the US Treasury Department, is a French citizen.
Vantaa-based forwarding and chartering company Luminor employs one person, according to information from Suomen Asiakastieto. Its turnover last year was 14.7 million euros. Turnover increased drastically last year, no less than 600 percent. The company made a profit of 447,000 euros.
The storage company Siberica, operating at the same address in Vantaa, employs two people, according to Suomen Asiakastieto. Its turnover last year was just under 700,000 euros, and it made a loss of 23,000 euros.
Along with the companies, also Gabriel Temin and an Estonian who held management positions in the Siberica company Catherine Esther Temin have been placed on the sanctions list of the US Treasury Department.
tried to reach Luminor’s representative to comment on the matter, but the company’s number could not be reached.
Valtonen: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of the matter
Foreign minister Elina Valtonen (collective) says that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of the case. He commented on the issue in the afternoon at a press conference on the ban on the entry of Russian cars.
– We at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do not have jurisdiction over US sanctions or their interpretation, he said.
Valtones was asked at the press conference how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ensures that companies operating in Finland are not used to export prohibited products to Russia.
According to Valtonen, it is important that when sanctions have been imposed and more ways to impose more effective sanctions on Russia are sought, that their implementation is genuinely monitored.
– Now, of course, when it comes to companies, so much of the responsibility lies with the companies themselves, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the authorities are trying to take care of keeping a common line, he answered the question.
One of the largest sanctions packages
The latest package of sanctions is one of the largest that the United States has imposed on the Russians because of the war in Ukraine. In total, the US financial and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs more than 150 companies or people were added to the sanctions list, which the United States estimates will benefit from the war started by Russia and are close to the president Vladimir Putinsays, among other things The New York Times magazine..
The sanctions are aimed at hitting Russia’s military supply chain so that Putin’s administration does not get the goods and services it needs for warfare, says the finance minister Janet L. Yellen. In addition, the United States imposed sanctions for companies and individuals in the energy industry to make Russian exports more difficult.
In addition to Russian and two Finnish companies, the list includes companies or people from Turkey, Georgia and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
For example, companies and people from Turkey who are accused of helping ships connected to Russia and subject to sanctions, and of helping Russia evade sanctions.
There is also a mercenary army connected to Wagner Pavel Shevelinwhich is believed to have facilitated arms shipments between North Korea and Russia.
The assets of those on the sanctions list in the US are frozen and US citizens are prohibited from doing business with them.
Suspicion in Sweden about the export of parts suitable for weapons to Russia
A man accused of espionage in Sweden has sold circuit boards to Russia that can be used for military purposes, says Swedish television SVT.
According to the security police Säpo, the man has sold such circuit cards that have been found, for example, in Russian long-range missiles.
The prosecutor says that 90 percent of the man’s clients in Russia are connected to the security service GRU. The prosecutor believes that the man must have known this.
The man himself claims that he did not know that the components also have military uses.
A 60-year-old Swedish-Russian man is currently in court accused of spying for the GRU.
Correction 15.9. 12:40 p.m.: Changed the main picture of the story. The original image could have given rise to the impression that the drone in the image was related to the companies that were on the banned list. This is not the case. It was a photo that was exchanged for another photo.