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Germany arrests a man accused of illegally exporting electronic components for drones to Russia (apnews.com)

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A German-Russian dual citizen has been arrested in Germany on allegations of violating the country’s foreign trade act multiple times by exporting electronic components to a company in Russia involved in the production of military materiel and accessories, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

The suspect, who was only identified as Waldemar W. in line with Germany privacy rules, was arrested in March. However, on Monday, the arrest warrant issued by a local court in the city of Mannheim at the time was replaced by an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the country’s Federal Supreme Court.

The federal prosecutor’s office said that W. was managing director of two companies he founded in the western German state of Saarland for international trade in electronic components.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 19 points 1 year ago

How many German Russian Dual citizens are named Waldemar? must be so many

[-] Heastes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's a 50/50 split between Waldemar and Eugen.

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Send this fucker to the front

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The suspect, who was only identified as Waldemar W. in line with Germany privacy rules, was arrested in March.

The federal prosecutor’s office said that W. was managing director of two companies he founded in the western German state of Saarland for international trade in electronic components.

In the period from January 2020 to March 2023, he exported electronic components on 26 occasions to a company in Russia whose production included the “Orlan 10” drone currently used by the Russian armed forces in its war against Ukraine.

In order to circumvent the EU sanctions, W. generally first imported the goods in question from abroad to Germany and then exported them to Russia — in part via a company he controlled in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

After the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the suspect switched to transporting the goods to Russia via Dubai and Lithuania, among other places, with the help of ostensible recipients in third countries

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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

The court that issued the arrest warrant, called "Federal Supreme Court" in the article, isn't actually the Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitutional court, highest court in Germany) but the Bundesgerichtshof (federal court of law) subordinate to it. The Bundesgerichtshof though is one of the Oberste Bundesgerichte (supreme federal courts).

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