The Russian oligarch supplied the Russian Federation with Ukrainian raw materials for the production of Kalibrs

The security service reported the suspicion to a Russian oligarch who supplied Russia with Ukrainian titanium raw materials for the production of Kalibr missiles.

Law enforcement officers have gathered evidence against the sanctioned oligarch from the Russian Federation Mikhail Shelkov, who is involved in schemes for the covert supply of Ukrainian titanium raw materials to the aggressor country, the SBU reported.

The Russian used the Demurinsky Mining and Processing Plant LLC in the Dnipropetrovsk region under his control to implement the equipment.

Rare minerals from the deposits of the Ukrainian company are indispensable components for the production of high-quality titanium. It was Shelkov who supplied them to the Russian Federation on the order of enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex. Among them are the manufacturers of Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles, which Russia fires at Ukraine from its ships in the Black Sea.

According to SBU materials, at the beginning of February of this year, the Demurinsky mining and beneficiation plant was transferred to the state property of Ukraine.

As the investigation established, Shelkov covertly became the beneficial owner of the Ukrainian mining company even before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. He carried out the actual management of the enterprise through the Russian titanium monopolist PJSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation. He carried out this activity together with the advisor to the general director of this company.

According to the investigation, it is part of the structure of the largest producers of weapons for the occupation groups of the Russian Federation, which are fighting against Ukraine.

After February 24, 2022, Shelkov wanted to hide his relationship to industrial assets in our country to avoid sanctions. To do this, he tried to transfer the formal management of the Ukrainian mining enterprise to a controlled commercial structure in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

However, SBU employees exposed the device, promptly blocked it and initiated the transfer of 100% of Russian property to the income of Ukraine.

On the basis of the collected evidence, the investigators informed Shelkov and his accomplice Fedoseev of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of territory or state border of Ukraine).

USM previously reported that the SBU exposed a Volyn company that supplied Russia with high-tech products for submarines.

According to the scheme, the foreign company purchased the products of the Ukrainian plant allegedly for its own needs, and then shipped them to the final customers – to Russia.