The company stopped exporting production in December 2018, a few months before the Crimean power plants were launched. Lavimont Brno is currently headed by Vadim Zaitsev, who bought 50 percent of the company in 2019. The shareholder was a member of the board of directors together with Povilas Medekša and Dmitry Kotenko, chairman of the board of directors at Voronezh-Aqua. In 2017, Run Engineering bought shares from Miloslav Vimr of a Czech company, Lavimont Brno. Inge GmbH also claimed they had no information on their equipment being shipped to Crimea. However, in 2020, Run Engineering entered into a contract with a different supplier, a representative of Inge GmbH told Deutsche Welle. Inge GmbH has been partnering with Run Engineering since 2009, largely for training purposes. Run Engineering responded in writing that no equipment was shipped to the two Crimean power plants. Russia has received 59 shipments of water filtration systems since December 17, 2018, six of which contain the Run Aqua-UF units. The image framed in red shows production by the German company Inge GmBH Stills from a video by Voronezh-Aqua about its works in Crimea. Medekša also insisted that the ultrafiltration units that were set to be exported did not have the membranes installed, and that the Russian customer bought the membranes from a different supplier. Meanwhile, Povilas Medekša, head of Run Engineering, claimed that the company did not export dual-use items to Russia or Crimea after the company's application for a license was denied. Voronezh-Aqua posted a video on their YouTube channel showing the construction of the Crimean power plants, and the ultrafiltration units seen in the video were made by Inge GmbH, water treatment market experts confirmed to LRT. The parts were manufactured by a German company, Inge GmbH. Run Engineering, therefore, had shipped the membranes a few days before the license was denied. The membranes were to be installed in the two Run Aqua-UF ultrafiltration units. Voronezh-Aqua received the membranes on December 17, 2018, the same day that Run Engineering was denied export license. Such parts are subject to EU export controls. The case revealed that Run Engineering was going to export equipment that uses Dizzer ultrafiltration membranes. Run Engineering was denied the license on December 17, 2018, due to the risk that the equipment would be shipped to Crimea, according to the annual report in 2018 of the Lithuanian intelligence service, the State Security Department (VSD). It also later claimed that Run Engineering had the license, but was not asked to show it. The company failed to provide the export license and declaration to the customs, marking these documents as optional. In 2018, Run Engineering tried to export two ultrafiltration units Run Aqua-UF, according to the case brought to Kaunas District Court in June 2019. Companies producing goods that can be used for both civilian and military applications have to apply for an export license. In summer 2018, Run Engineering violated EU law by trying to export dual-use items. It was responsible for the installation of water filtration systems and sewage treatment equipment. Voronezh-Aqua was one of four companies in charge of the construction of the two power plants. Voronezh-Aqua, a Russian engineering company, bought water filtration systems from the Kaunas-based company Run Engineering to be installed in the two power plants. Siemens is not the only company to be involved in Russia’s scheme to evade sanctions, LRT Investigation Team and Scanner project have found. Instead, Technopromexport shipped them to Crimea. To bypass the sanctions, the Russian company said it would use the gas turbines in Krasnodar. In 2017, the German company Siemens sold four gas turbines to a Russian engineering company, Technopromexport, a subsidiary of Rostec. The construction of power plants in Simferopol and Sevastopol began in 2016 and the facilities began operating in March 2019. The EU has imposed sanctions, barring European companies from exporting infrastructure equipment to the annexed region. Vladimirov ( Russian: Владимиров) or Vladimirova (feminine Russian: Владимирова) is a Russian and Bulgarian surname, that is derived from the male given name Vladimir and literally means Vladimir's.After the annexation in 2014, the Crimean peninsula faced water shortages and power outages, but Russia was not able to produce the necessary equipment.
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