In 2021, German media published their findings of an investigation claiming German engine technology was being used in Chinese military warships.[1] According to the report, two companies were identified as providing marine diesel engines. These companies were MTU and the French branch of MAN, a Volkswagen subsidiary.
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Ge Songtao was the chairman of Shanghai Breeze Technology Co. Ltd., a Shanghai-based company that specializes in marine equipment. For the advancement of his own company, Ge was looking to source “combat rubber raiding craft equipped with engines that could operate using gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel”. Ge leveraged an employee based in the United States named Yang Yang. Yang was instructed to order the gasoline engines that were military model.
From 2011 to 2018, the Hainan State Security Department (HSSD) recruited hackers and linguists in China to create malware used to hack into companies from 12 different countries and across multiple industries. Those identified from the HSSD that led the group are Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin.
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In December 2021, a Danish court fined and convicted the Dan Bunkering shipping firm and its parent company, Bunker Holdings, millions for dollars and gave a four-month suspended prison to the company’s CEO over a European Union sanctions-busting scheme.[1] The company was convicted of selling jet fuel to Russian companies, which in turn transferred the fuel on to Syria in contravention of EU sanctions. The company, which is the largest bunker supplier in the world, is alleged to have made 33 sales of jet fuel worth $102 million between 2015 and 2017.[2]