“Siegfried Wolf had no influence whatsoever on the subsidiary VPK and was never involved in decisions affecting VPK,” emphasized the spokesman. According to a “profil” report, the armaments company VPK, which produces “Tigr” tanks, belonged to Russian Machines at least until 2012, where Wolf was chairman of the supervisory board from 2010 to 2018.Vienna/Moscow/Kiev. As Wolf spokesman Josef Kalina told the news magazine, it was decided under Wolf in 2011 to “separate” VPK from Russian Machines. In the following year 2012 – almost two years after Wolf’s entry into the board of directors of Russian Machines – this separation was then completed, according to Kalina. As a foreigner, Wolf should not have been involved in the production of military goods, Kalina added to the APA. Neither “profil” nor the APA could find out who has owned VPK since 2012.
Last Wednesday, Wolf stressed that he had “never been involved in military production”. Wolf maintains good connections to Russia and holds a 10 percent stake in Oleg Deripaska’s GAZ. Russian Machines is also part of the Russian oligarch’s corporate empire. Kalina explained that the GAZ among the armored SUVs of the “Tigr” type had to do with old licenses from the Soviet era. GAZ itself has not manufactured any military products since 2000.
Source: Nachrichten
