Well, somebody has to be jailed for this, I mean those Russian Agents from the FSB operating this companies in the West.

And yet the Russians still cannot equip their soldiers with night vision gear?

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 68%. (I'm a bot)

> Dutch high-tech companies are unknowingly selling their technologies to companies set up by the Russian secret service, the head of the Dutch military secret service has told the Financieele Dagblad. MIVD chief Jan Swillens told the paper in an interview that the Russian military intelligence organisation GRU has set up front organisations and companies with the aim of purchasing technology in the Netherlands and smuggling it to Russia for military purposes, thus evading sanctions.

> In March, the foreign affairs ministry expelled 17 Russian diplomats for espionage, some of whom worked for GRU and were tasked with purchasing knowledge and technology for the Russian army.

> 'There is very little sense of the Russian interest in our technology and political knowledge,' he said.

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Can't believe that they didn't expected this. The GDR secret service did this since the GDR was set on the embargo list. The bought high tech with such companies.

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Who would have guess that lots of oil money invested in promoting corruption could actually yield some results.

Ironically, putin would be in much better position by literally buying or renting Crimea back in 2013-14 instead of.. well, aborting his entire country, sort of speak.

Night vision? You’re lucky if you’re given a gun at this point

Meh, happens all the time. Look at what IBM was pulling during WW2 with the Nazis. I guess the justification is "well, the war's going to end at some point"

What good is the tech when you can't get the parts to build anything?

I mean, Russian soldiers are being captured in sneakers... In October... in Ukraine. Maybe work on your boot-manufacturing-tech before worrying about what the dutch are developing?

Russia is everywhere. I hate to think how many backdoors Trump gave them into our infrastructure.

Likely a global reality. Ditto that for China.

Not just the Netherlands. You can bet your ass that Russia has shadow companies all over to smuggle important goods.

Any other country would do the same. It shouldn't even remotely be a surprise.

"Unknowingly." Ok, buddy. Sure.

It's not the responsibility of the companies to check if their client is not by any chance a front set up by the russian secret service.

It depends on your product. Some companies absolutely have a positive duty to make sure their client is legally allowed to receive the goods or services.

Or, you know, profits are good.

Or even a knife.