{"id":124202,"date":"2025-05-23T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124202\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:24:10","slug":"german-firm-shipped-restricted-tech-to-russia-after-eu-sanctions-kicked-in-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124202\/","title":{"rendered":"German firm shipped restricted tech to Russia \u2014 after EU sanctions kicked in \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Export records reviewed by POLITICO show that 11 shipments were sent from Kontron\u2019s Slovenian subsidiary, Kontron d.o.o, to its Russian subsidiary, Iskra Technologies, between July and November 2023 \u2014 months after the June sanctions came into force.<\/p>\n<p>The exported technology included a dual-use product which can monitor and intercept communications traffic, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iskratel.com\/en\/files\/default\/Documents\/Leaflets\/Telco\/EN\/Iskratel-SI3000-cCS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SI3000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the shipments, which included high-tech and dual-use goods that were banned under EU sanctions following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, were existing orders permitted because of export licenses granted to it by the Slovenian government. It said it had stopped all fresh shipments following June 2023\u2019s new wave of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the implementation of the 11th package of sanctions (June 23), we stopped exporting any new goods and only delivered already approved exports in compliance with issued export licences, in accordance with the EU sanctions in force,\u201d a statement issued by the company said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9230919-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6649830\"  \/>Roderich Kiesewetter warned that continued Russian access to surveillance and telecoms tech \u201cbenefits Putin\u2019s war machine and thus weakens European security.\u201d\u00a0| Hayoung Jeon\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s sanctions on dual-use tech are meant to apply to all new and current contracts \u2014 even if signed before a set of sanctions comes into force.<\/p>\n<p>But they include some case-by-case exceptions for cyber, emergency and medical tech, with companies expected to get permission from the EU member state they are based in to fulfill those orders. Neither the European Commission nor Germany\u2019s Central Customs Authority have indicated that an investigation into Kontron is underway or will be undertaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Export records reviewed by POLITICO show that 11 shipments were sent from Kontron\u2019s Slovenian subsidiary, Kontron d.o.o, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[30825,2000,299,1824,55214,20586],"class_list":{"0":"post-124202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cybersecurity-and-data-protection","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-technology-uk","13":"tag-trade-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555011911810895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}