A British company has supplied $1.2bn worth of electronic equipment to Russia over the past year

The legal entity Mykines Corporatios LLP was registered for two Ukrainian citizens, but they are likely to be fake persons. The imports were made through third countries, but this is still a violation of the sanctions regime. 

The Financial Times analysed the company's customs data. Svidomi could partially confirm the findings of the British newspaper using aggregators of customs declarations and data from the registers of legal entities. 

Mykines Corporatios LLP is registered in the suburbs of London. However, it transfers its profits to offshore legal entities in the British Virgin Islands. The owners of the offshore companies are not known.

Instead, the British data on Mykines Corporatios lists two Ukrainian citizens - 53-year-old Vitalii Poliakov and 34-year-old Alisa Rakhubovska. 

The open data analysis agency Molfar managed to find only one Vitalii Poliakov with the corresponding date of birth. This person is a road worker at a state-owned mining company.

Rakhubovska allegedly ran the company from September 2016 to August 2022. She is known to have studied English in the UK in 2018. Currently, she allegedly lives in Sweden and works in the IT sector. 

Poliakov and Rakhubovska controlled another English company, Nippon Klick Systems. It also exports equipment to Russia. Its owners are also hidden through offshore legal entities.

The clients of these companies are Russian enterprises. They mostly sell civilian electronics. At the same time, one of its main clients, the Moscow-based Marsala, cooperates with Microcontact, a company involved in the development of aviation and UAV technology. 

Another client of the English firm is Delta Solutions. This Russian company has a licence to develop encryption technologies.