The Russian military industry uses a variety of schemes and mechanisms to gain access to Western technologies, industrial information, and to circumvent sanctions. One of the simplest ways to implement such activities is to use medium-sized private companies that can create channels for receiving and importing necessary products. These are so-called cover companies that act as private contractors, but in the interests of the defense industry of the Russian Federation.
One of these campaigns may be the Limited Liability Company Euroindustria, founded in October 2020 in St. Petersburg (31 Mokhovaya Street). This is a relatively small intermediary campaign that supplies sanctioned goods.
Denis Rashitovich Sayfutdinov is the founder and director of the company. The profile related to the company’s activities states that it is engaged in the wholesale trade of machinery and equipment. However, as indicated in the register, the company is also engaged in the manufacture of electronic equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic power equipment, repair and installation of machinery and equipment, sale of machinery and equipment for agriculture. We’ll talk about what exactly the company sells and produces later.
First of all, I would like to draw attention to the fact that Denis Sayfutdinov was engaged in a business from 2017 to November (!) 2020, which was not related to the sale of cars or their production. Prior to that, he was an individual entrepreneur who carried out his activities in the field of architecture in the city of Moscow. The business was liquidated by the decision of the entrepreneur. It is worth paying attention to the fact that Sayfutdinov practically simultaneously liquidates one business (archetectural) and creates another, in a completely different area, specialization and tasks, with an authorized capital of 100 thousand dollars (about 600 thousand Russian rubles), and with a campaign income of 124 million Russian rubles in 2024 (1.5 million dollars). In my opinion, such radical shifts in business may be associated with criminal activities, for example, money laundering).
Now let’s return to the company’s activities themselves. There is no information about the composition of the company, managers, or managers on the official page (https://ei.spb.ru). As a result of the search, it was possible to find a mention that the functions of the CEO of Euroindustria were performed by Lyubov Mikhailovna Deeva.
Previously, L. M. Deeva was listed as a manager (a person authorized to act without a power of attorney) in organizations:
- OLYMP LLC (CEO from 08/14/2012 to 04/13/2016); the organization was liquidated on 04/13/2016).
- NTC AS LLC (General Director from 07/24/2012 to 10/21/2013; the organization was liquidated on 10/21/2013).
- PTK SERVAL LLC (CEO from 07/23/2012 to 10/03/2016; the organization was liquidated on 03.10.2016).
- ENERGY SYSTEMS LLC (Director from 07/20/2012 to 05/21/2014; the organization was liquidated on 05/21/2014).
The job description indicates that the company employs 10 people, while stating that the company wants to expand the number to 50. Website (https://ei.spb.ru ) and general could be characterized by low-level information content on it, typical for fraudulent firms, afferist firms, or organizations associated with shady (criminal business). The company does not aim to improve its advertising, attractiveness, or expand its network of customers (it claims to work with 2,200 industrial enterprises in Russia. It is not possible to identify the partners).
An indirect confirmation that fraud may be hidden behind the activities of this company is evidenced by comments left by former employees on the networks.: Don’t get involved. They lure out all possible data, then they try to contact the customer themselves. If you have a good relationship with a customer and he refuses them, they simply stop responding. Dishonest. According to another customer, the goods were never delivered to them, the money was not returned, they promised to bring the goods, although the delay has been six months. They like to ignore when they owe something.
The company also acts as a defendant in 6 cases in the amount of 11 million rubles.
Activity
It is worth paying attention to the fact that the company’s website itself states that it is engaged in “parallel import”, which means the import of foreign goods into Russia without the approval of the copyright holder. In other words, through industrial theft.
Euroindustria, according to its management, provides supplies of components, stacks, and equipment from practically all European manufacturers, including Baumuller, Lenze, Siemens, Grundfos, ABB, Mitsubishi DANAHER MOTION, ZUMBACH, KEB, MOOG, INDRAMAT, OMRON, LENZE, KEB, BAUMUELLER, CONTROL TECHNIQUES, FANUC, BECKHOFF, LEROY SOMER, MAXON, GROSCHOPP, PRO MOTOR, OMEC, AC-MOTOREN, ELECTRO ADDA, PERSKE, BROOK CROMPTON, EATON, GMN, HARMONIC DRIVE, BINDER, BELIMO, MARATHON ELECTRIC, CAVOTEC
You can read the following on the website: We continue to supply imported equipment for you even in these difficult geopolitical times. Despite the withdrawal of many dealers and European manufacturers from the Russian market, our company has established a variety of procurement channels and logistics routes.
I would like to inform you that our team is ready to provide you with the supply of all necessary Brands through established parallel import channels.
I would like to inform you that our team is ready to provide you with the supply of all necessary Brands through established parallel import channels. Among the large list of various kinds of components, there are also Siemens processing machines
(Модель BUB E 50/1000 CNC)
Модель BUB E 50/2000 CNC
Despite the fact it’s now very difficult to dig information about partner or customers of
Russian companies, some of them, have been identified. One of them is an official
Russian structure : MP Housing, also known as “Municipal Entreprise Housing”.
According to the database www.list.org , which provides official information about public tenders, EuroIndustry supplied the Kirishskoye Municipal District (Leningrad Oblast) with a 688.381 roubles contract for safety valves.
Other customers have been identified :
Technomashservice, Technokon, Titan, TNK (Техно-Маш-Сервис, Технокон, Титан, ТНК);
Ural Reducer, Uralgidroprom, Uralkompressormash, Uraltehfilter Engineering (УралРедуктор, Уралгидропром, Уралкомпрессормаш, Уралтехфильтр-Инжиниринг);
Chelyabinsk car service Equipment Plant, ChKZ, ChEAZ (Челябинский завод автосервисного оборудования, ЧКЗ, ЧЭАЗ);
Rotork Company (Rotork IQ25) electric drives;
Penzkompressormash «Пензкомпрессормаш»
Teknoice, TEKO, TEMP, Temp (Текноайс, ТЕКО, ТЕМП, Темс)
Aquatermservice, Climate Creators, Afalina M, Revitech, Venturi (- Акватермсервис, Создатели климата, Афалина М, Ревитех, Вентури).
It should be noted here that since 2022, the Russian government has officially supported this type of activity.
On March 29, 2022, in connection with the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions and boycott, the Russian Government adopted Resolution No. 506, according to which it is allowed to import into the country demanded original goods of foreign manufacture without the consent of the copyright holders. The list of such goods has been compiled by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
On June 28, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law on parallel imports. The law exempts companies engaged in “gray imports” from criminal and administrative liability.
In December 2023, it was announced that parallel imports would be extended for 2024, while their range would decrease due to the fact that Russian companies were “reaching specified volumes” of products. Earlier, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Andrei Belousov said that in 2022-2023, parallel imports of products worth more than $ 70 billion were imported to the Russian Federation.
Companies such as Euroindustry, on the one hand, can be fraudulent (for the purpose of illegal turnover of funds), and on the other hand, they are only a small link in a huge network of companies engaged in black and gray imports bypassing Western sanctions. This is one of the reasons why there is no data on the company’s employees (in order to avoid sanctions and harassment from Western countries), and there is also no specific data on customers and customers.
It is safe to say that today there are thousands of similar companies operating in Russia, whose sphere of activity is circumvention of sanctions. The Euroindustry occupies only 1269th place in this industry (wholesale supplies only in St. Petersburg itself) and 9983) a place in Russia.
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