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EU Court Upholding Asset Freeze of Russian Almaz-Antey Manufacturer Politicized

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The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) General Court (EGC) to uphold asset freeze of Russia's Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer over alleged arms supplies to East Ukrainian militias is politicized, the company's General Director Jan Novikov said Wednesday.

The Almaz-Antey stand at the 2015 Dubai Airshow international exhibition. (File) - Sputnik International
EU Court Upholds Asset Freeze of Russia's Almaz-Antey Arms Manufacturer
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the EU Court of Justice announced its verdict on one of the lawsuits filed by Almaz-Antey against EU sanctions imposed over allegations that the company had contributed to the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. The case was dismissed and the sanctions were upheld.

"We believe that today's decision of the European court is political and not based on the legal evaluation of the case circumstances," Novikov was quoted as saying by company's press service.

He added that in 2014 the EU officials claimed that the anti-company sanctions were linked to the Malaysian airlines aircraft crash over Ukraine in July 2014, as Almaz-Antey manufactures, in particular, BUK M1-2 and M2E surface-to-air missiles, believed to have shot down the plane. However, in September 2016, the EU Council acknowledged that there were no links between the company and the incident.

On July 30, 2014, the EU Council made the decision to include the company in the lists of sanctions, saying that Almaz-Antey, as a Russian state-owned company, "contributed to the destabilization of Ukraine," since "Russian authorities were providing heavy weaponry to separatists in Eastern Ukraine."

Almaz-Antey filed a lawsuit against the EU Council in May 2015, while the second appeal by the company was sent to the EU court in September. The company contests individual sanctions against it, as well as sectoral restrictions.

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