As German media reported, the Koblenz District Court in Germany on August 30, 2023 sentenced the founder and former owner of the German company RED Aircraft, Vladimir Raikhlin, to five years in prison for illegal exports to Russia since 2015. until 2021 for military use, bypassing German sanctions, the RED A03 diesel aircraft engines produced by this company.
Aviation diesel engine RED A03T of the German company RED Aircraft in the workshop of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant against the backdrop of the fuselage of a prototype Yak-152 training aircraft for static testing (serial number 0003). Irkutsk, 06/07/2016 (c) Andrey Fomin
German citizen of Russian origin Vladimir Raikhlin, who left the post of head of RED Aircraft in 2020 and formally remains only its minority shareholder, stated in court that he “consciously committed violations”, “so as not to delay business processes,” but at the same time “assumed that the engines would be used only for civilian purposes.” RED Aircraft is also obliged to pay a fine in the amount of profits from illegal deliveries to the Russian Federation in the amount of about 4 million euros.
RED A03 engines in Russia were installed on prototypes of the Yak-152 military training aircraft and the Altius twin-engine heavy reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle (Altair). At the same time, the first flights of the first prototypes of the Yak-152 and the Altius UAV took place in 2016.
Aviation diesel engine RED A03T of the German company RED Aircraft in the workshop of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant against the backdrop of the fuselage of a prototype Yak-152 training aircraft for static testing (serial number 0003). Irkutsk, 06/07/2016 (c) Andrey Fomin
German citizen of Russian origin Vladimir Raikhlin, who left the post of head of RED Aircraft in 2020 and formally remains only its minority shareholder, stated in court that he “consciously committed violations”, “so as not to delay business processes,” but at the same time “assumed that the engines would be used only for civilian purposes.” RED Aircraft is also obliged to pay a fine in the amount of profits from illegal deliveries to the Russian Federation in the amount of about 4 million euros.
RED A03 engines in Russia were installed on prototypes of the Yak-152 military training aircraft and the Altius twin-engine heavy reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle (Altair). At the same time, the first flights of the first prototypes of the Yak-152 and the Altius UAV took place in 2016.
