The NYT report suggested that military hardware supplied by the British firm to the Indian company may have found its way to the Russian agency Rosoboronexport.
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India has refuted a report of The New York Times about linking an Indian company to Russian agency. Sources said that the report is factually incorrect and misleading. They said the report has tried to frame issues and distort facts to suit a political narrative.
It has also been stated that the Indian entity mentioned in the report has scrupulously followed all its international obligations on strategic trade controls and end-user commitments. Sources further said that India’s robust legal and regulatory framework on strategic trade continues to guide overseas commercial ventures by its companies. They said that reputed media outlets are expected to undertake basic due diligence while publishing such reports, which obviously was overlooked in the instant case.
The New York Times report, citing “documents”, claimed that one of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost USD 2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency.
From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group, shipped the equipment to an Indian firm that is the biggest trading partner of the Russian arms agency, the report claimed.