The National Revenue Administration (Krajowa Administracja Skarbowa, KAS) has added two SteelTrade and Omni GRP companies registered in the country, as well as five people, including citizens of Russia and Belarus, to the national sanctions list.
According to the Polish authorities, Warsaw-registered companies OMNI GRP sp. z o. o. and STEELTRADE sp. z o. o. are related to each other. STEELTRADE, formerly known as EMK GROUP sp. z o. o., has connections with companies of the EMK Group operating in the steel industry in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The shareholders of companies registered in Poland are three individuals: Andrei Karpovich (Andrei Mikhailovich Karpovich / Андрей Карпович), Veronika Ivanowna Pental (Veranikę Pental / Вероника Ивановна Пенталь) and Vladimir Evgenyevich Leshchuk (Uladzimir Liashchuk / Владимир Евгеньевич Лещук), citizens of Russia and Belarus.
According to KAS, companies from Poland exported, among other things, steel with special parameters designed specifically for high-pressure casting. This type of steel is particularly in demand by the defense industry due to its strength, lightness and resistance to extreme operating conditions of defense products. Thus, there was a reasonable possibility that these products had been supplied to Russian defense enterprises.
Inclusion in the Polish sanctions list means that the following restrictive measures are applied to a person or entity:
1. freezing of all financial resources,
2. prohibition on providing any financial or economic resources to organizations/persons included in the list, or on their behalf – directly or indirectly,
3. prohibition of conscious and deliberate participation in actions, the purpose or result of which is to circumvent the measures specified in paragraphs a and b,
4. exclusion from the public procurement procedure,
5. entry in the register of foreigners whose stay in the territory of the Republic of Poland is undesirable.
