A few months after the start of a full -scale invasion, Russia sent Turkey a number of money transfers to large amounts of money. It turned out that in a short time the Russian Federation transferred more than $ 5 billion there, but promised that there would be even more funds. All this Russians covered with information that the funds should supposedly go to the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, as the correspondents of The Wall Street Journal found out February 2.
Experts of the Ministry of Justice found that in fact the Russian Federation tried to create a dollar offshore reserve to finance its operations in the conditions of sanctions, which in the world were actively imposed on the country due to a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moreover, the Ministry of Justice believes that the entire project for the construction of nuclear power plants in Turkey was created only to bypass US sanctions against the Russian Central Bank, as the journalists of The Wall Street Journal found out. It would look like this: through the nuclear power plant, it would be possible to transfer money to Russian companies with accounts at the largest bank of Turkey Ziraat, but there would be no need to carry out transactions through the United States.
The Akkui NPP agreement was signed back in 2010: the total project cost is more than $ 22 billion. General Construction Contractor of the station - OSA Nomstroykport (subsidiary of Rosatom).
The license for the construction of the first power unit was issued back in 2018, but all power units (and there should be 4, on planning) are now under construction.
At the same time, the physical launch of the first power unit was supposed to take place in 2024, and commissioning - in 2025, as is known from open sources.
We will remind, the previously newly elected US President Donald Trump said that in the event of a refusal of the Russian Federation from negotiations against Moscow, new sanctions may impose. Focus reported this on January 22.
It also became known earlier that the Trump team is preparing a plan for oil sanctions against the Russian Federation to get an agreement on Ukraine. Journalists learned such information on January 16.