Millions of dollars’ worth of Canadian technology has been funnelled through a network of Hong Kong–based shell companies to Russia’s military, evading sanctions, according to a new report by two human rights organizations.
Hong Kong has become the world’s largest transshipment hub for high-priority Western technology feeding Moscow and other hostile governments, with Canadian technology reaching Russia’s war machine against Ukraine via supply chains running through the Beijing-ruled city, says an Oct. 28 report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
The report, titled “Backdoor to the Battlefield: How Hong Kong Funnels Canadian Technology into Russia’s War Machine,” is the result of an investigation that analyzed battlefield forensics, Hong Kong public records, and three years of Russian customs data….