A criminal case has been opened in Finland against a logistics company based in Helsinki for violating sanctions imposed on Russia.
The company is suspected of supplying sanctioned products to Russia between 2022 and 2025, including bearings and industrial engines. Customs authorities in Finland intercepted a shipment of these products, which were classified as dual-use items.
Hanna Koskenranta, еhe investigator in charge, said that most of the goods were shipped from the European Union through Lithuania or Poland, then to Belarus and Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and then exported to the EU via Bulgaria. One recipient of these goods was a company added to US and EU blacklists.
There is one main suspect in the case: the head of the company, a middle-aged man born in the Soviet Union who lives in Finland.
