The US Department of Commerce has added 37 companies under 40 entries, three of which are registered in Georgia, to its list of companies acting against United States foreign policy or national security interests.
According to the December 16 document, Gensis Engineering, ROV Solutions, and SAEROS Safety ERO are the three companies added to the U.S. Trade Restrictions List.
The Commerce document states that these companies supplied or attempted to supply US goods that “would ultimately materially assist the Iranian defense industry in violation of US export controls.”
According to the latest Georgia Public Register records, ROV Solutions was registered on August 6, 2012 and its 100 percent stake is owned by Levan Kotiashvili with Irakli Kotiashvili serving as company director. According to the DJVU files available from Public Registry, the company is involved in import and export activities.
SAEROS Safety ERO was registered on November 25, 2013 and, according to the latest records, is 100% owned by Nino Chulakidze, and here too, Iraki Kotiashvili is the director. According to the same records, the company is “involved in any activity that is not prohibited by law”.
According to the Georgian Public Register, both companies – ROV Solutions and SAEROS Safety ERO are registered at the same address in the capital (2 Platon Ioseliani St., Tbilisi, Georgia), while the US document gives a different address (12a Tashkent St., Tbilisi ). ).
Commerce cites Ioseliani Street in Tbilisi as the place of registration of Gensis Engineering, while the latter cannot be searched on the Georgian public register, possibly meaning that the company is not registered under the same name as stated in the US document.
According to the same document, ROV Solutions has an alternate address in the Hong Kong region of China, while Gensis Engineering has the alternate address in Istanbul, Turkey. The Commerce listed these two companies under China and Turkey, respectively, and in the Georgia section.
Giorgi Noniashvili of the European Georgia Party said the owners of the three companies are from the same family. He said no additional information could be sought about her that “raises questions”.
“It is important to clarify who is behind these companies that supplied American items to the Iranian armed forces,” added Noniashvili.
The Georgian government has not yet commented on this.
Other companies included in the US company list are in China (34), Turkey (2) and Malaysia (1).
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