Chinese nationals smuggle military gear from Russia using loopholes
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Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:08:05 +0300
Chinese citizens have begun actively smuggling body armour, tactical backpacks, military uniforms and other equipment from Russia to study them and manufacture cheaper replicas.
Source Russian propaganda outlet Izvestia, citing law enforcement sources Details One of the sources stated There has been an increase in the number of illegal operations related to the export of military and dualuse goods.
Various loopholes are used for this, particularly in postal services.
The Moscow Times reported that in midApril, law enforcement in Moscow detained a Chinese national immediately after he posted two loadbearing vests, including a Ratnik model with a 6Sh117 patrol backpack.
It was later revealed that the same individual had previously shipped two 6B45 generalpurpose body armours, combat backpacks and other military gear to China.
In December last year, another Chinese student was detained in Moscow for smuggling military equipment.
The 27yearold was keeping body armours, bullet casings, armour plates and other gear in his university dormitory.
During interrogation, he claimed to have legally purchased all the items on classified advertisement websites.
Background Russias financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, is set to start forming a registry of suspicious cryptocurrency wallets belonging to Russian citizens by adding digital currency address identifiers.
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