That's the salt

Salt is included in the list of products, the supply of which is prohibited as part of the food embargo, operating on August 7, 2014. The corresponding government decree was published on the official portal of legal information

We are talking about the heading of 2501 00 "Salt (including the table and denatured) and sodium chloride clean, dissolved or not dissolved in water, or containing or not containing agents that prevent sticking or providing mocking; This measure will begin to operate on November 1.

Meanwhile, in December, in the investigation of the FBK “Chaika. Crime Drama” it was noted that the son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaik, among other assets, owns the “Tiret Solerudnik”, the largest supplier of food salt in the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts. According to the data indicated on the company's website, the volume of salt production is more than 1000 tons per day. In 2015, the revenue of the joint -stock company amounted to 1.33 billion rubles, net profit - 165 million rubles.

On July 29, Interfax reported that Artem Chaika officially became the owner of 90 percent of the shares of the East Siberian Trade and Industrial Company LLC, which owns 100 percent of the shares of Tiretsky Solerudnik OJSC. Prior to this, such a share was owned by the general director of the company Andrei Svyatoshenko. Another ten percent of Mikhail Karamushka, general director of the mine.

On June 29, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the extension of the grocery embargo until the end of 2017 . These measures involve the ban on the import of certain types of agricultural products, raw materials and food from the USA, EU countries, Canada of Australia, Norway, Ukraine, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Then Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the list of goods that will fall under the extension of the Russian food embargo will not change.

A separate ban was introduced on the import of a number of products from Turkey after the Turkish Air Force shot down the Russian Su-24 bomber. The ban, among other things, extended to the import of salt . Despite the improvement of Russian-Turkish relations, the embargo on Turkish products has not yet been canceled.