Ukraine adds SLB to list of war sponsors

Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has included SLB, the world's largest oilfield services provider, in the list of international sponsors of war due to its cooperation with Russian oil and gas giants.

The anti-graft agency reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

"NACP added the leading global oil industry corporation SLB (formerly Schlumberger) to the list of international sponsors of the war due to the fact that, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the company is expanding its business in the aggressor state, taking advantage of the exit from the market of competing companies," the report reads.

SLB continues to cooperate with Russian oil and gas giants such as Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil, mobilizing its employees in Russia for the war against Ukraine.

From May to October 2022 alone, SLB delivered more than 900 batches of its goods to Russian enterprises. On its own website, the company openly states that it brought over $4.5 billion in taxes to the budget of the terrorist state. "It seems absolutely normal for SLB to brag that the company indirectly financed weapons to kill Ukrainians," the National Agency on Corruption Prevention said.

Using a wide network of subsidiaries in Russia, SLB successfully circumvents international sanctions. The company already has experience in similar operations. Since the 2000s, SLB has been fined three times by the U.S. government for violating domestic sanctions laws due to continuing supplies to Iran, Sudan and Russia.

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