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Hamburg Higher Regional Court: charges brought
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Deliveries to the Russian company have been banned since 2014 - and any deliveries of goods for military purposes anyway: two businessmen may soon have to answer to a court in Hamburg for alleged violations of the Russia sanctions.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has brought charges against the two Germans at the Higher Regional Court.
The Karlsruhe authority announced.
The managing director of a machine tool company in Augsburg has been in custody since February.
He is said to have delivered machines to a Russian arms company seven times between 2016 and 2018, with a total order volume of around eight million euros.
The export of such goods to Russia is generally prohibited.
In order to bypass the controls, the business is said to have run via bogus recipients.
The investigators assume that the Russian secret service was involved.
According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, the second man is a long-time friend and confidante of the main suspect.
He is said to have advised him and supported him in handling the business.
For this he received commission payments totaling around 270,000 euros, according to the prosecution.
The man was briefly arrested in Munich in early June, but has since been released subject to conditions.
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