Official Bern got involved in stopping the deal, according to SonntagsBlick
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The federal authorities have stopped a Swiss firm’s million-franc technology deal with Russia over concerns about how the items could be used, reports the newspaper SonntagsBlick.
“There were considerable doubts over the plausibility of the final use,” a spokesman from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) told the newspaperExternal link. The Swiss firm has not been named.
The move, worth CHF1.3 million ($1.4 milion), came via a private Russian firm, which claimed the turntables were for civilian use, SonntagsBlick said.
But the federal authorities stopped the deal because it believed that the items could go on to a military recipient. The technology could be used to make sensors for fighter jets and missiles or be deployed in electronic combat systems, the report added.
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