Toronto address listed shipping $80M of electronics for ‘Russian war machine’

A Caribbean shell company has smuggled at least $80 million worth of electronics into Russia under the disguise of a Canadian address, according to leaked Russian trade filings obtained by CBC News. The scheme appears to be part of a Kremlin initiative involving a covert web of multinational buyers and producers that source sanctioned technologies from Western countries, the majority of which come from Chinese stockpiles and manufacturers, to help produce weapons for Russia’s war with Ukraine. “My initial reaction was that this looked like a really egregious breach of [Canada’s sanction regime],” said Jessica Davis, an Ottawa-based financial crimes…