Dutch high-tech companies unknowingly sell their technology to firms founded by the Russian military intelligence service. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense confirms this after statements about this by Jan Swillens, head of the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD). He warns in the FD that the Dutch high-tech sector is unwittingly supplying crucial building blocks for the war machine in Ukraine in this way.
According to Swillens, the Russian secret service has set up dozens of companies that operate in the Netherlands as ‘front companies’ to evade Western sanctions. Those companies buy technology here and then smuggle it to Russia for military purposes, he says.
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