In Spain seized the prohibited components for chemical weapons heading for

The Spanish police seized 13 tons of prohibited chemicals, including "possible" chemical weapons precursors. But she arrested four suspects. In Spain, four suspected participants in the criminal group were arrested, which tried to bypass the sanctions of the West, illegally posting chemical products to Russia. They carried chemicals through a false company governed by "Russian citizens". About it reports Reuters.

"In the course of the investigation, it was proved that chemicals under international sanctions, some of them are possible precursors of chemical weapons or nerve substances, were exported in the past through this structure Services. The statement does not report which chemicals were seized during the last operation. The components were found inside the container in the port of Barcelona, ​​and four suspects were arrested in neighboring villages.

They are accused of constant smuggling of prohibited goods. Police have reported that the Spanish company has created a complex logistics and financial network for export to Russia's chemical products that have come under international sanctions. They carried the components for a subsidiary in Moscow, which eventually received chemicals, and they were heading through several shell companies in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan to hide the true purpose of goods that were later redirected to Russia.

The European Union, which has imposed large -scale sanctions against Moscow since 2022, stated that it has been taking measures to restrict companies that sell double -purpose goods to Russia through Central Asia to bypass sanctions. The United States and the United Kingdom accused Russia of violating the international ban on the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, and London imposed sanctions against troops that, he said, participated in its use.

However, Russia has repeatedly denied these accusations, and the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in May that Moscow remains related to its obligations under the contract for the ban on chemical weapons. We will remind, the fighters of the Armed Forces have repeatedly told that Russian soldiers use chemical weapons on the battlefield.