The German-Japanese company DMG Mori continues to supply machine tools to Russian military-industrial enterprises.
Source. This was reported by the Agency.
In 2015, the company, despite EU sanctions, opened a plant in Ulyanovsk to produce machine tools, which were intended for the Russian military industry, among other things. In March 2022, DMG Mori announced its withdrawal from Russia and that the plant would cease operations.
In fact, the company did not close and continued to operate without changing owners: DMG MORI RUS LLC and Ulyanovsk Machine Tool Plant LLC. Their revenue has dropped by half, but it is still there. The head of both companies is Andrei Sokolov, an employee of the German DMG MORI. Since the beginning of the war, according to a source close to the company's management, the plant could have assembled at least 200 machines, as components had already been delivered for them before the announcement of the company's closure was made.
The machines are sold to the Russian military-industrial complex through related companies, Service Pro LLC and Service Plus LLC. They are certified partners of DMG MORI and are allegedly managed directly by Sokolov.
Sokolov's family lives in Berlin, and its members, having previously obtained Israeli citizenship, changed their surname to Goldman. Andrey Sokolov's wife, Natalia, said in an interview with the German press that she and her husband hold opposition views and oppose the war.
On September 20, Ukraine added DMG Mori to the list of war sponsors. The Agency's sources claim that the company's head office is well aware of where the machines produced at the plant are being delivered.
Earlier, The Insider wrote about how, despite the sanctions, millions of euros worth of chips have been imported from Latvia since the beginning of the invasion of Russia. Lesta-M is one of the key importers of microelectronics from Latvia, with government contracts for the supply of microchips amounting to more than 80 million rubles, and its government customers are mainly military-industrial enterprises, including manufacturers of Iskander missiles and Tor-M2E air defense missile system.