Representatives of the Russian company Mirelix, which supplied electronics to the Russian secret service (FSB), established a base in Slovakia after the start of the war in Ukraine. Public data suggests that the company continued its deliveries even after the full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. An analyst warns that similar cases could pose a security risk and that the electronics could also have been used in Russian ballistic missiles and guided missiles.
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Military analyst Vladimír Bednár warned that this could pose a security risk for Slovakia. According to him, based on similar cases abroad, it can be assumed “that not only these companies and citizens pose a security risk to us, but that they are directly agents of Russian intelligence services who have been operating on our territory for a long time under the guise of legitimate business activities.” ...
The Czech secret service has long warned that the activities of Russian individuals or companies with links to the Russian military-industrial complex pose a significant security risk not only to Slovakia, but to our entire region. A spokesperson for the Czech Security Information Service (BIS) added that business activities are among the methods traditionally used to conceal the activities of intelligence services. “Traditional cover includes the professions of journalist, trader, or entrepreneur,” explained Ladislav Šticha of the BIS. The Slovak Information Service did not respond to our questions by the deadline.
It is not clear whether Mirelix continues to supply Russian military units even after its owners moved to Slovakia. We did not receive a response from company representatives to the question of whether they supplied products from other European Union countries or from Slovakia to Russia.
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