The Promtekh network: the route of Western weapons components from the EU to Russia, 18 July 2024

...The Industrial Technologies Group (Promtekh) is a Russian research and production corporation that includes a design bureau and manufacturing enterprises. The corporation specializes in the development and production of components for aviation, rocket and space, land and marine equipment...

Promtekh also has clients among such giants as Russian Helicopters, Roscosmos, United Aircraft Corporation, Rosatom, and others...

Promtekh enterprises work for the Russian military-industrial complex, in particular, 15 companies of the group are under US sanctions for their involvement in the Russian military-industrial complex, production of electronic components and technologies for the aviation and electronics industries, as well as for fulfilling government defence contracts...

Groups of companies such as Promtekh should have been the first to lose access to Western technology after the sanctions were imposed.  However, in 2023 DKZ imported $3.2 million worth of Western-made computer numerical control machines (CNC machines). Such machines are an important technology for the modern defence industry...

In the 12th package of sanctions in December 2023, the European Union significantly restricted the re-export of CNC machines and systems from third countries. Prior to this decision, companies used a loophole to supply critical products to the Russian military-industrial complex...

The Turkish company Enütek, founded in December 2022, supplied sanctioned products to DKZ. According to Russian customs, in 2023, this company exported goods worth $7.7 million to Russia. Enütek’s Russian clients are all enterprises of the Promtech corporation..

Trap Aggressor analysts compared the products supplied to these companies with the database of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine “Components in Aggressor’s Weapon”. It turned out that Enütek supplied components, similar to those used in Russian weapons, worth at least $850,000...

...[T]he Turkish Enütek has been establishing ties with former suppliers of Promtekh enterprises since the latter lost the ability to purchase parts directly. The Turkish company’s loyalty to Shadrin’s Russian enterprises is explained by data from the registers...

Later, ITGF created the Turkish company Enütek, which in 2023 provided Shadrin’s Russian Promtekh with the necessary accessories for weapons production.

Trap Aggressor and its partners asked Igor Reutov, the current director of ITGF, about the ITGF’s connection to Turkish and Russian companies. Lawyer Amandine Erician, who acts as a consultant for ITGF, claims that the initiator of the creation of the Turkish subsidiary of Enütek was Mr. Zhou Xinjie, whose goal, according to her, was to enter the Turkish telecommunications market. However, they could not explain why Enütek exported sanctioned products to Shadrin’s companies. The lawyer claims that her client knows nothing about this...