Germany’s Siemens Says Russian Partner Violated Crimea Sanctions<br />The company, Siemens, a giant engineering and electronics conglomerate based in Munich, said a Russian customer had<br />illegally shipped two power plant turbines to Crimea instead of their intended destination in southern Russia.<br />Siemens said it built the turbines in Russia with a Russian partner and sold them to Technopromexport for a power generation project in Taman, a city on a peninsula in southern Russia<br />that is separated from Crimea by a narrow section of the Black Sea.<br />Technopromexport had repeatedly reassured Siemens that the turbines would not be sent to Crimea, Siemens said.<br />Technopromexport had agreed in writing not to ship the turbines to Crimea, or to export the power they generated to annexed territory, Siemens said.<br />By JACK EWING and ANDREW E. KRAMERJULY 10, 2017<br />FRANKFURT — One of Germany’s biggest companies said Monday<br />that it had become an unwitting pawn in a scheme to evade sanctions against Russia and break a de facto blockade of electricity to the annexed territory Crimea.<br />The diversion of the turbines flouted what Siemens said was an agreement not to violate sanctions<br />imposed by the international community after Russia annexed the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
