Germany: Businessman trades hi tech missile components on behalf of Moscow

German prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a Leipzig businessman accused of supplying high-tech components to Russia on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for a Russian missile development program. Spiegel.

The German The magazine claims that the suspect is accused of having contacts with a Russian citizen named Sergei.K, whom prosecutors believe acted as a buyer on behalf of the Federal Security Service.

He also said that in March he had contacted the director of a company in the southern German city of Augsburg who had been convicted of violating the European Union’s arms embargo on Russia.

In this case, the export documents indicated that the machinery would be used in the oil and gas industry. In fact, writes Der Spiegel magazine and the Athens News Agency, it was intended for the state-owned company OKB Novator, which manufactures systems including nuclear ballistic missiles.

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