Yevgeny Pluzhnyk, a former Russian businessman and vice-rector of the Moscow Technological Institute “VTU,” founded a company in Hong Kong in 2023 that has since been supplying critical electronics to the Russian defense industry. The supply chains and specific details of such activities were described in detail in December of last year in the Trap Aggressor investigation by the analytical center StateWatch. However, following the publication, we received additional information from the international anti-corruption and organized crime investigation organization OCCRP. Exclusive data indicates that Pluzhnyk operates businesses in Vietnam, Serbia, Georgia, and Tunisia, and his network of companies functions without any sanctions.
Yevgeny Pluzhnyk — a former vice-rector of a Russian university, co-founder of the well-known robotics solutions manufacturer Promobot, and director of the Hong Kong-based MAG Smart Solution Limited — has built a shadow bridge between Hong Kong and Moscow. Through his companies, sanctioned products of German and Czech manufacture have allegedly been delivered to Russian defense enterprises since 2024, totaling over $564,000.
Vietnam and Serbia: A Business Geography Without Borders
According to the data we obtained, Yevgeny Pluzhnyk serves as manager and legal representative of the Vietnamese company Cong Ty Tnhh Tu Van Lingvo. The company’s primary activity is management consulting. Founded in 2013, it remains active — yet according to Vietnamese legal entity registries, the firm is not operating at its registered address. So who is being “consulted” there, and how, remains an open question.
In Serbia, he appears as a shareholder of Exoneuro DOO Beograd. The limited liability company EXPRO DOO BEOGRAD is registered at Gospodara Vučića, Belgrade, and has been operating since December 1992. The company’s general director and owner is Vladimir Shavikin. The company’s primary activity is classified as “Specialized Wholesale Trade” and it is categorized as a small company under Serbian accounting law. Yet the numbers tell a different story: in 2024, the LLC declared total revenue of approximately $3.54 million, with a net profit of around $77,800. The company employs 37 people, with an average salary of approximately $1,180 per month — a solid figure by Serbian standards.
Pluzhnyk’s name also appears in Tunisia, linked to Medrobotics, a manufacturer of medical robotic systems. In other words, Pluzhnyk exploits jurisdictions where companies with vague activity profiles can be used as transit vehicles or cover for more complex schemes.
And Pluzhnik himself?
Following the publication of the investigation, he did not comment on a single fact — neither on social media nor in the press. His personal Instagram page featured only photographs from the mountains — apparently another vacation abroad. A happy, vibrant, carefree life of a man who resides in the UAE, runs businesses across multiple continents, and has yet to appear on any country’s sanctions list.
A man whose Hong Kong company supplied sanctioned electronics to a plant within the Rostec structure — and who continues to freely open new firms, sign documents as a legal representative in various countries, and pose against snow-capped peaks.
We continue to monitor his activities and the structures connected to him. Because as long as sanctions lists fail to notice him — he keeps working. Quietly and steadily. From the mountains or the luxury of the Emirates.
