Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics to Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export restrictions
including mobile phones, laptops, circuit boards and semiconductors — to Russia since February 2022. https://www.ft.com/... Richard Shearman / @dickshearman : Sanctions UK style: ‘Significant control’ is exercised by Vitali Poliakou, ‘a 53 yr old Ukrainian.... her public Instagram page lists her activities as IT professional and pole dancer’ The UK business that shipped $1.2bn of electronics to Russia https://www.ft.com/... Graham Barrow / @greybrow53 : This is an @ft story about Mykines Corporation LLP. Below are screen grabs of a/c filed by Mykines and Nippon Klick LLP who have the same current and ex owners. Look at the labels Same date, consecutive scan numbers They arrived in the same envelope https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ed Siddons / @edwardsiddons : A terraced house in Enfield oversaw the export of $1.2bn of electronics to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine last year. Very normal country with very good oversight of company registrations and export controls. https://www.ft.com/... Ann Pettifor / @annpettifor : A superb piece of investigative journalism... https://www.ft.com/... Alexander von Witzleben / @alexwitzleben : The UK business that shipped $1.2bn of electronics to Russia. #Mykines had been active in Russia prior to the invasion, but the records imply its business with the country suddenly took off after the onset of the war https://www.ft.com/... #sanctions #VladimirPutin Max Seddon / @maxseddon : A mysterious UK company in a terraced house in Enfield, London has sent $1.2bn in electronics to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine - and nearly $1bn of it is subject to export controls. 🤔 Fascinating story by @MilesMJohnson @xtophercook @NastyaStognei https://www.ft.com/... Oliver Rivers / @maxrothbarth : Superb reporting. “Some of the customs records have errors — or may have been the subject of subterfuge. For example, there are six entries logging the import of paper. But the implied price of this paper is, in some cases, $500,000 a kilogramme.” https://twitter.com/... Tom Braithwaite / @tbraithwaite : A billion dollar tech supplier to Russia is based in a suburban house in north London. Great story from @MilesMJohnson, @xtophercook and @NastyaStognei https://www.ft.com/... Tom Keatinge / @keatingetom : There's a lot of focus on the sanctions compliance of ‘third countries’ at present. But let's not forget that evasion requires goods to trade, and those goods come from these shores! ‘The UK business that shipped $1.2bn of electronics to Russia’ https://www.ft.com/...