{"id":2015522,"date":"2023-08-29T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-arrests-man-accused-of-illegally-exporting-components-for-drones-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:02:48","slug":"germany-arrests-man-accused-of-illegally-exporting-components-for-drones-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-arrests-man-accused-of-illegally-exporting-components-for-drones-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany apprehends man for illicitly exporting drone components to Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgermany-arrests-man-accused-of-illegally-exporting-components-for-drones-to-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>German \u2063Man Arrested for Illegally Exporting Electronic Components to Russia<\/h2>\n<p>German authorities have apprehended a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">man accused<\/a> of \u2062illegally exporting\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tesla-wont-produce-any-new-models-amid-chip-hell-semiconductor-shortage\/\" title=\"Tesla Won\u2019t Produce Any New Models Amid \u2018Chip Hell\u2019 Semiconductor Shortage\">electronic components<\/a> used in the production of military equipment to\u200b Russia. The \u2064suspect, identified as Waldemar W., was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-admits-to-stabbing-children-and-throwing-them-from-50-foot-balcony\/\" title=\"Man Admits to Stabbing Children And Throwing Them From 50-Foot Balcony\">initially arrested<\/a> in \u2064March and a new arrest\u200d warrant was issued by an investigating\u200b judge of Germany&#8217;s \u2064Federal \u2063Supreme Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<h3>Accusations and Violations<\/h3>\n<p>Waldemar W. is the founder of two companies based in\u200b Saarland, \u200bGermany, specializing in international trade\u200c of electronic components. \u2064He is accused of\u200c violating the Foreign Trade and Payments Act by exporting these components on 26 occasions between January 2020 and March\u200d 2023.\u200b The components in question\u2063 are \u2062subject to the European Union&#8217;s Russia Embargo Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>After\u2064 Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022,\u2062 the suspect allegedly changed his shipping methods. Instead of directly sending the goods to\u200b front companies \u200din Russia, he \u200dstarted using \u2062third countries such as the United\u2063 Arab Emirates and Lithuania as intermediaries.<\/p>\n<h3>Destination and Value<\/h3>\n<p>The exported components were ultimately provided to a company\u200c involved in \u2062the production of \u200bmilitary hardware, including the Orlan-10 drone, which has been used\u200c by Russian\u2062 forces in\u200d Ukraine. The total value of\u200c the components is estimated to be \u2062around 715,000 euros ($773,000).<\/p>\n<h3>International Response<\/h3>\n<p>The United States and its Western allies have been actively imposing sanctions on individuals and companies \u200binvolved in \u200bsupporting Russia&#8217;s \u200dactions in Ukraine. Russia has acquired inexpensive Iranian drones\u2062 that utilize\u200d commercially available materials.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the \u200dDepartments of Justice, \u2064Commerce, State, and \u200dTreasury issued a joint guidance emphasizing the compliance obligations of the industry. They \u200dhighlighted the extensive \u2064overseas network used by Iran to obtain\u2063 UAV components, which \u200bincludes procurement\u2062 agents, front companies, suppliers,\u200c and intermediaries. The industry was urged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-arrests-man-accused-of-illegally-exporting-components-for-drones-to-russia\/\" title=\"Germany apprehends man for illicitly exporting drone components to Russia.\">exercise extra vigilance due<\/a> to the use of commercial-grade components in Iran&#8217;s weapons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man, known as Waldemar W. due to privacy rules, was arrested by German authorities for allegedly exporting electronic components to Russia for military equipment production. Initially arrested in March, a new arrest warrant was issued by an investigating judge from the Federal Supreme Court of Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}