During the raid, the organizer of the scheme resisted arrest and even tried to open fire at the SWAT unit.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has blocked a scheme of smuggling military aircraft components to Russia via Boryspil International Airport.
Operatives and investigators of the security agency established that a group of six active participants, all holders of Russian permanent residence permits, set up a scheme to smuggle combat aircraft parts to Russia.
Perpetrators illegally purchased units and components for military aircraft from various sellers, in particular, parts for Su-27s and TU-22s that are in the service with the Russian air forces. Their customers were businessmen from Russia who acted in the interests of the defense ministry of the aggressor state. Smugglers would sent spare parts to customers through third countries, where their accomplices would redirect them to the Russian Federation,” the report said.
During a raid in the customs zone of Boryspil Airport, SBU officers detained a batch of military goods, in particular remote control computers that are part of the SU-27 aircraft control systems, which the attackers planned to illegally export from Ukraine. During investigative actions in warehouses and at the place of residence of the suspects in Kyiv and Kharkiv, law enforcers seized units and components for combat aircraft prepared for delivery.
Electronic correspondence with customers from the Russian Federation was revealed and sets of customs and technical documentation confirming the transactions were seized.
During the raid, the organizer of the scheme resisted arrest and tried to open fire at the SWAT team,” the statement said.
Pre-trial investigation is under way.
As UNIAN previously reported, the SBU has exposed military personnel who sold stolen parts for Mig-29 fighter jets.
(c) Unian
Well done guys. Now find out who is behind it. No doubt someone high up in the military is receiving a large amount of rubles to betray his country. Pretty pathetic when a self acclaimed “superpower” has to steal technology from a poor old country like Ukraine.
It must be some corrupt people in the military or the production units involved, you don’t find these spare parts in the supermarket.
They do in Donbas. 😂
Strange how Russia seems unable to produce anything of value, they have to steal everything.
A good one 🙂
“What do you get when you move Communism to the desert?”
” For the first 70 years…nothing happens…then there is a shortage of SAND”. 😀
It sounds to me like these goons were given “permanent residency” in Ukraine. I think the border needs to be closed. If not completely, then stop these residencies and require 90-day visas.
They steal Ukrainian engines, plane computers……………………..radars etc………………absurd!
Well done lads. How can Russia claim to be a super power when they need Chinese help to build a gas plant and must steal aircraft parts from someone else.
The Chinese steal the technology from the US to be in with.