Another importer of Bombardier products is JSC NDCA (АО «НДЦА»), led by a Roman Matyushevsky, who, according to The Insider, previously worked within structures owned by Rostec — Russia’s largest state-owned defense conglomerate. Last year, NDCA declared to customs the import, through Georgia, of a Canada-manufactured Global 7500 aircraft valued at $75 million.

Aviakompaniya Severo-Zapad LLC (ООО «Авиакомпания «Северо-Запад», lit. “‘North-West’ Airlines”) imported a GLOBAL 6000 model airplane in March. Severo-Zapad also imports other Bombardier products. For example, thermistors (manufactured by Dassault, France), cylinders (Liebherr, U.S.), and a passenger seat adjustment control panel (Lufthansa Technik, Germany). The sellers are Sunshine Logistics Shenzhen Co (China), Blaze Logistics LLC (Oman), Arezo Aviation Services (India), and Skytop Aviation Supplies (China).

Sky Partner («Скай Партнер»), from the Moscow suburb of Khimki, provides business aviation services. This year, it brought adaptive flight displays for Bombardier jets into Russia, helped by the UAE company ACMI solutions. Another major importer of products for business jets, United Suppliers LLC (ООО «Объединение Поставщиков»), works through intermediaries in the west-central African country of Gabon. The Moscow-based firm buys control buttons, antennas and other American-made equipment from the Gabon-based firm Ter Assala Parts.

Kvantum LLC (ООО «Квантум», lit. “Quantum”) also buys parts for business jets from the same Gabonese firm. But there are multiple other supply chains routing parts to Russia: for example, via a firm based in the UAE, the company Prosupply LLC (ООО «Квантум») managed to buy a Bombardier-compatible engine starting valve made in the Netherlands.

Shutoff valves for oil magnate Vagit Alekperov

“The sanctions do not concern Lukoil, but concern me personally, so I have decided to distance myself from the company’s activities,” was how Vagit Alekperov explained his resignation as president of the Russian oil giant in April 2022 — after the UK had imposed personal sanctions against him. The trick succeeded: two years later, Alekperov himself has avoided European sanctions, and Lukoil continues to operate in Europe.