Siemens was accused of supplying gas turbines to the occupied Crimea

Siemens employees were accused of supplying gas turbines to Crimea, despite the embargo imposed after the occupation of the peninsula by Russia in 2014.

Hamburg prosecutors accused Siemens employees of violating the sanctions regime, Wirtschaftswoche.

Four Germans and one Swiss are involved in the illegal sale of four gas turbines of the company to Crimea. Among the participants of the scheme is a current Siemens employee.

They sold the turbines to a Russian state company, knowing that they would end up in occupied Crimea, in violation of the embargo.

Turbines worth 111 million euros were shipped through the port of Hamburg to St. Petersburg between November 2015 and January 2016. According to the agreement, the turbines were to be installed in the south of the Russian Federation, but the Russian customer Siemens installed them at two new power plants in Simferopol and Sevastopol.

The accused knew that the gas turbines would be delivered to Crimea.

Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies, a joint venture with Russia’s Power Machines, was added to Siemens Energy during the Siemens spin-off in 2020, and sold in late 2022.

Siemens and Siemens Energy said they consider themselves victims of Russian client Technopromexport (TPE), but are cooperating with the investigation.

Earlier, USM reported that the German Siemens Energy offered the government of Ukraine to place its floating power plants in the water areas near Odesa, Mykolaiv and Izmail.