Strange trades for 1.5 billion dollars. Gabon imports the most parts for Russian aircraft

According to customs data, with which the server had the opportunity to get acquainted, last year Russia imported aircraft parts for almost two billion dollars (about 47 billion K). A large part of the replacement parts, worth 1.5 billion dollars, were apparently shipped from Gabon, by a single local company called Ter Assala Parts.

In reality, it probably doesn’t exist at all, and the variable amount is less than half of the total budget of African countries. The company does not appear in the Gabonese commercial register, and its address in the capital, Libreville, is a residential building. And even Russian companies, appearing in customs documents as importers of meat from Africa, are most likely a white horse, the server concluded.

He pointed out that the Russian customs administration is not obliged to thoroughly check all declared goods according to the law, but it is unlikely that the customs administration itself would falsify the goods. It is most likely that the real importers bought a false identity in the form of fake companies.

In addition, a high-ranking official of both countries may be involved in the transaction, because Russian airlines are closely connected with the Russian state, and the import of such a large supply of spare parts undoubtedly had to be agreed with the authorities.

In addition to Ter Assala Parts, which imported spare parts from Gabon and the Maldives for 1.48 billion dollars, last year aircraft parts were imported from Taiwan for more than 200 million dollars and from the United Arab Emirates for more than 160 million dollars.

According to customs data, Ter Assala Parts supplied spare parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft, including 15 second-hand engines for Boeing-737 and Airbus A320/A321.

The Moscow Times noted that the first guns from Gabon reached Russia last August, a month after the US businessman Oleg Pacula and Vasiliy Besedin blocked another important route, which was made by the largest Russian airline Aeroflot, S7, Pobda, Uralskiye Avialinii , Utair and Russia.

Moscow and Libreville are getting closer from the Polish foot in Gabon. Moscow envisions the creation of a trans-African corridor from confused non-democratic regimes that have messed up their relations with the West, estimated a Russian expert on Africa, who should not be named for his own security.

Gabon is one of the countries that voted against the exclusion of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, and tankers of the Sovkomflot company sailed under the flag of Gabon, bypassing sanctions on Russian oil, added The Moscow Times.

Regardless of the sanctions, there is practically no shortage of foreign aircraft used in Russia in Russia, Russian aviation expert Ilya Atilin told the server. There are millions of tricks to make spare parts. Any means is good for getting around stupid sanctions. Sanctions didn’t work, don’t work and won’t work, he declared.