KYIV —
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service
said Sunday it had detained two officials of Ukrainian aircraft engine maker
Motor Sich on suspicion of working with Russia.
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SBU “detained the president of industrial giant
Motor Sich, he is suspected of working with the Russian Federation,” it said in
a statement.
The SBU also detained the company’s department head
for foreign economic activities, it added.
It did not provide the names of the detained.
Their detention is part of a criminal probe into
“the illegal supply by Motor Sich of military goods for Russian attack
aircraft”, the SBU added.
They are held on suspicion of “collaborative
activity” and “assistance to the aggressor state”.
The SBU said the management of the company’s plant
in the southern Zaporizhzhia region — part of which is controlled by Russian
forces — “acted in collusion” with Russian state-owned defence conglomerate
Rostec.
“The suspects established transnational channel for
the illegal supply of wholesale batches of Ukrainian aircraft engines to the
aggressor country,” the SBU said, specifying that Russia used them to produce
and repair attack helicopters.
These models of helicopter were used “en masse”
during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the SBU.
It added that they bypassed sanctions by selling the
engines to companies in the Middle East, Europe, and
East Asia that were making
orders for the needs of a “foreign party”.
Motor Sich makes engines for helicopters and
aircraft, as well as industrial turbines.
Russia was the company’s biggest client until 2014,
when Moscow annexed Crimea.
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