A joint venture between Siemens and Power Machines filed a lawsuit against the Rostec structure, which is accused of supplying turbines to Crimea

Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies, a joint venture of the German concern Siemens and the Power Machines company, filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against its former partners - OJSC and Tekhnopromexport LLC, which are part of Rostec. Data about the claim are posted to them in the file cabinet on the court’s website, and TASS drew attention .

The application was registered on September 13. Details are not provided in the case file.

Siemens accuses Tekhpropromexport of deception regarding the supply of turbines manufactured by Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies to Crimea in violation of the sanctions regime. The general director of Power Machines, Roman Filippov, was detained on July 13 in the case of disclosing state secrets, and he soon resigned from his post . Siemens tried to seize the already delivered turbines through the court, but was refused.

Because of the supply of turbines, were subject to sanctions. two officials of the Ministry of Energy, the head of Technopromexport, two legal entities of this company and the Interavtomatika organization

Rostec insists that they did not buy the turbines directly. Technopromexport claims that it did not receive any offers from Siemens to buy back the gas turbines, after which they “underwent modernization” and were “specified according to the characteristics for the project” using “Russian know-how” and “additional equipment.” Kommersant wrote that before the turbines were delivered, technical changes were made to the flow path of the gas generators; Some of the compressor blades were also replaced.