{"id":6668,"date":"2023-08-29T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:44:44","slug":"germany-arrests-suspect-over-war-drone-component-sales-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/germany-arrests-suspect-over-war-drone-component-sales-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany arrests suspect over war drone component sales to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany on Tuesday arrested a German-Russian man for selling to Russia electronic components that are used in military gear, including drones currently deployed by Moscow&#8217;s troops in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through his company in western Germany, the suspect, identified as Waldemar W., exported components on 26 occasions from January 2020 to March 2023 to a company in Russia that makes military equipment, federal prosecutors said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objects supplied by the suspect are a common component of the &#8220;Orlan 10&#8221; drone, prosecutors said, noting that the particular type of equipment is &#8220;currently used by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even before Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the components were already covered by sanctions imposed by the EU in 2014 against Moscow over its illegal annexation of Crimea.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany on Tuesday arrested a German-Russian man for selling to Russia electronic components that are used in military gear, including drones currently deployed by Moscow&#8217;s troops in Ukraine. Through his company in western Germany, the suspect, identified as Waldemar W., exported components on 26 occasions from January 2020 to March 2023 to a company in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,2,2622,2621,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-news","category-russia-asia","category-russia","category-security","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}