BRUSSELS (AP) — Six more people were arrested in Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an investigation into alleged exports of “sensitive” products and technologies that could be banned under sanctions against Russia, they said. Belgian prosecutors on Tuesday.
The investigation was launched following a tipoff and information provided by unidentified U.S. “government agencies,” prosecutors said in a statement. They said the agencies were investigating illegal exports of dual-use goods and money laundering in the United States.
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The six were detained during searches of private homes and company headquarters in Knokke-Heist and Eeklo in Belgium, and just over the border in Sluis and Rotterdam, Netherlands, the statement said. No names of suspects or companies were provided.
The European Union, made up of 27 countries, has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Part of the goal is to save it high-tech products and other products that could be used simply for military purposes. to achieve the Russian armed forces. The United States has taken action.
In late October, a Dutch court convicted a Russian businessman of exporting PC chips and other electronics to Russia’s arms and defense industry, in violation of EU sanctions, and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
For more than seven months, the businessman exported “dual-use” products that can have both civil and military applications to companies linked to the arms industry in Russia.
The court ruled that he faked invoices for the exports and sent them to Russia via a company in the Maldives. His company was fined 200,000 euros ($212,000).
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