Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced sanctions Monday against an armoured vehicle company run by Russian Canadian Guerman Goutorov.
Streit Group was sanctioned for supplying vehicles to the Russian National Guard, which is taking part in the war in Ukraine, Anand said in a statement.
The company “continues to feed Russia’s war machine” amid President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the minister said.
“The sanctions announced today will reduce Russia’s military capabilities in its war against Ukraine by disrupting and hindering Streit Group’s capacity to supply military technology and equipment to Russia.”
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress welcomed the sanctions, but said the federal government had not taken action against Goutorov, the Streit Group founder and CEO.
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“This points to the necessity for the government to dedicate more resources to investigating and enforcing export and sanctions law – and more broadly – to the necessity of a full trade embargo on Russia and the designation of Russia as a terrorist state,” it said.
The company did not respond to requests for comment.
Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa responded to the announcement on Telegram, claiming the sanctions had “no practical effect” because the Putin regime “pays no attention to them.”
Goutorov formed Streit Group in Ontario after immigrating to Canada from the collapsing Soviet Union. He later built a major production facility in the United Arab Emirates.
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His armoured vehicles have since turned up in multiple war zones, and Streit Group has been fined by the U.S. and repeatedly accused of sanctions violations by the United Nations.
The Canadian sanctions followed similar measures recently adopted by the European Union against Streit Group and Goutorov that alleged they were supplying Russia.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company has been accused of continuing to work with Putin’s military and companies, despite widespread international sanctions.
Ukraine has reported seizing a Streit Group armoured vehicle on the battlefield, while Russia’s national guard has been seen with new Streit Spartans.
Months after Russia launched its 2022 attempt to seize Ukraine, Streit opened a production facility in Uganda, whose government is aligned with the Kremlin.
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One radioactive pellet coming at ya!
All of the sanctions doing nothing to deter Russia. Why bother?
Carney. A day late and a dollar short as usual. Lol
12 years after the invasion lol
So what does this sanction do. Is the company out of business in Canada
Putin is actually Poilievre wearing a Putin look alike face mask.Many Canadians believe this is true.Some would say it’s no coincidence
Speaking about defense, the only defense we Elbozos have to cover up Carney’s failures is that Poilievre has no security clearance. It was the same mantra when Trudeau was in power.We squawked like parrots then and still continue to because it’s all we got
Will Canada be sanctioning Pratt and Whitney Canada as well considering they are owned by RTX ,or is this just more hypocrisy.
The closer we look, the more Ukraine has ties with the Israeli regime. The same one that traffics humans and blows up children. The mainstream media is owned by those who control the narrative, not the truth.
Yet no sanctions for any company applying arms to a much more dangerous genocidal Israel. Or government is compromised. We are also occupied just like the USA. If you don’t think so, you’re still asleep.
Boy, I can feel Russia quivering in their boots!
Close the freeking business down. Russia is a threat to the world and always has been!
All talk no action Trudeau and Csrney. Always a day late and a dollar short by allowing this guy to exist in Canada. Probably is a Liberal donor.
This war is not what it seems. I don’t believe we have been given the truth about what’s going on or where the money Canada sent actually went.
SHIP that guy back to PUTIN
Is German Goutorov really entitled to retain his Canadian citizenship ?
I agree with Paul, Stop funding that child sex trafficking country. Let that war take it’s course without world interference.
Global won’t let us comment on the Calgary copper theft story. Some sing must be involved.
We stop Russia now, or we stop her later. Pre WW2 proved appeasing a dictator like Putin bites back.
I’m with the Russian ambassador on this one; somebody’s gotta feed the war machine, we might as well benefit from it instead of throwing em billions to keep killing eachother
Putin gonna put hypersonic missile in clarnys anus
Glad to see this happening. Why is Poilievre, who has no security clearance, not commenting? Some would say this is not a coincidence.
This company should be shut down in Canada. Done.
Ukrainians are a bunch of hypocrites, murderers and terrorists. Why do we continue to give them OUR money??
Ukrainian hypocrisy at its finest. Why do we continue to spend our hard-earned tax dollars to on war? If Ukrainian Canadians want to fight so bad – let them go to Ukraine and fight till they’re blue in the face.
Why is it ok for Trudeau and Carney to supply weapons to Ukraine using taxpayer funds, yet selling them for profit to the Russians is sanctioned?
Let’s end the war. But we do have to realise that war materials will be purchased from somewhere. Why penalise Canadians?
Ukraine sponsors assassinations, car bombings over 100km from the war zone, and they want Russia declared a terrorist organisation? I wonder what Russia claims about Ukraine? Why is that not reported.