International companies Blablacar, Busfor and Shutterstock paid more than $ 5 million taxes in 2022 - media
Russian Busfor increased in 2022 by 1. 6 times - to 149. 1 million rubles. Therefore, the total profit of both Russian structures Comuto SA amounted to almost 270 million rubles. Companies have the sole director of Aleksey Skorobogatotov. French journalists throw him close ties with big Russian business and authorities.
According to the media, the International Amadeus IT Group Reservation System, which continues to work in two countries, paid to the state budget of the aggressor country in 2022 taxes and contributions in the amount of 110. 8 million rubles. Shutterstock (USA) MarketPleys continues to earn revenue in Russia and allows the Russians to earn: for 2022, the company paid 77. 2 million rubles. to the budget of the Russian Federation, the media said.
According to the editorial board, in total, these three companies paid in 2022 about 306 million rubles ($ 5. 1 million) of taxes to the budget of the State-Sponsor of Terrorism. This is the amount that can finance about 5000 artillery shots for the Ukrainian military, which is 150 Iranian drones, which daily destroy Odesa region, Mykolaiv region, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and other regions.
Journalists write that a number of experts also expressed the likelihood of merging by these companies of personal data, including Ukrainians. How safe it is to consider these services in terms of access of Russia's special services to data on the movement of Ukrainians with joint trips and bus tours, the authors of the article ask questions. The text of the media states that the services of BlaBlacar in different countries use about 100 million people, 8 million Ukrainians.