Billions on sanctioned electronics: how Abramov’s Marsala and Tarasov’s IT-Shuttle, with offshore firms and Interior Ministry veterans, bypassed customs and underpaid the Russian budget
A vast supply chain for sanctioned electronics, established back in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) through Moscow-based Marsala LLC, continues to operate in Russia. Part of the scheme was dismantled in early 2023 following the revelation in the British Financial Times of a connection to the supply of computer equipment to Russia through MYKINES CORPORATION. ;However, it was replaced by companies from the UAE, Seychelles and China. All last year, hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of goods were imported into Russia through a network of companies, at least one of which is linked to veterans and former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, the "patriots" were unwilling to pay the legally required customs duties to the Russian budget and understated the value of the goods. To do this, they used the same scheme that Marsala had used with MYKINES and Saldor Corporation ...