![pageSearch](/themes/hestia/images/page-search.png)
Potain Zhangjiagang Plant's 2023 Crane Shipments Surpass Entire 2022 Total
Aug 24, 2023BODYCAM: Backyard intruder gets busted
Jul 07, 2023Video: Last guard tower at old Utah prison falls, clears way for a new future: The Point
Aug 28, 2023Tower Crane Rental Market to Reach $6.0 Billion, Globally, by 2032 at 4.2% CAGR: Allied Market Research
Aug 26, 20231 injured in fall at construction site in Palm Beach County
Aug 16, 2023Man suspected of sending drone parts to Russia
![Jun 03, 2023](/themes/hestia/images/news-details-icon1.png)
BERLIN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A German-Russian national is under arrest on suspicion of exporting components used by Russia in the production of military hardware, Germany's prosecutor general said on Tuesday, escalating the case from state to federal level.
The defendant, named only as Waldemar W, is accused of violating sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the prosecutor said in a statement.
W has been in pre-trial detention since March 9.
Between January 2020 and March 2023, he allegedly exported electronic components on 26 occasions to a Russian company involved in the production of military hardware including the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone.
The prosecutor general stepped in "because of the special importance of the case", it said in a statement. Its arrest warrant supercedes another issued by a Mannheim regional court on March 8.
German authorities have been increasingly cracking down on those suspected of circumventing sanctions.
Earlier this month, a businessman was arrested on suspicion of providing machine tools used by the Russian company in the production of sniper rifles.
Writing by Friederike Heine, Editing by Rachel More, Writing by Thomas Escritt
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.