Sanctioned helplessness: OSINT analytics have discovered how the Russian Federation gets foreign spare parts for UAV
Molfar analysts have found that some countries only impose restrictions on the name of companies by ignoring tax numbers. Meanwhile, Russian drone manufacturers change the names of companies or create new ones. The sanctions do not affect them. Persons involved in production are mostly left out of sanctions lists. The effectiveness of international sanctions depends, in particular, on the accuracy of object identification.
The sanctions imposed on Russian -related unmanned production companies often do not work because of the lack of clearly binding to legal entities. As an example, investigators are given by the Russian group of companies "Unmanned Systems", which is in the sanctions, but without specific identifiers, such as the tax number (TIN), for example.
"Therefore, the execution of such sanctions is impossible as an attempt to arrest a Russian named Vladimir Putin, without specifying any of his personal data. The situation with sanctions is still deteriorating because some persons have been made with errors in the sanctions lists," the analysts explain. They found that this "unmanned" systems "exist in several hypostases. This name is found several times in the Russian Federation, and it was created although different, but related persons.
At the same time, they also created many "gaskets" companies. They are combined by the fact that they all sell or produce the same SuperCam UAV, though in some places under different names. Molfar analysts have checked the sanctions lists of Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan. They found that in the US, Ukraine and the United Kingdom use unique identifiers for companies (TIN).
This allows you to more accurately determine the subject of sanctions. In other countries, the company was identified by the name that, according to experts, is an unreliable way of identification, since companies easily change names, addresses or register new legal entities by avoiding sanctions. "Thus, by rapidly changing the" surface "data of companies, Russians can avoid sanctions.
For example, Canada's sanctions lists are included with an abstract" Unmanned Systems Group ", which is not even a legal entity. Russians create companies and legal entities using them to bypass. Rebrenation, change of addresses or registration in jurisdictions that do not support sanction restrictions. Analysts suggest that "unmanned systems" produce and sell SuperCam UAVs under different names and through different companies.