A German resident has been put on trial for selling dual-use products.
The German's case was heard by the Stuttgart city court.
German law prohibits the defendant's name from being revealed. But he is known to be 59 years old, Reuters reports.
The man came to the attention of German law enforcement for selling electronics to Russian companies.
From January 2020 to May 2023, he sold 120,000 dual-use parts. Investigators emphasize that these components could have been used by Russia for military purposes.
In particular, for the production of Orlan-10 drones. In 2022, the man tried to hide the end buyer.
With the help of documents, he wanted to convince regulatory authorities that the goods were being received by counterparties in Turkey and Hong Kong.
But investigators found a number of pieces of evidence of the German citizen's business connections with Moscow.
The court accepted this evidence and sentenced the German to six years and nine months in prison. He had an assistant who received a shorter sentence.
