FirePoint co-owner Stilerman explained that, given his Russian citizenship
Denis Shtilerman, a co-owner of the Ukrainian company FirePoint, held Russian citizenship, but Russia revoked it.
Denis Shtilerman made this statement at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s Temporary Investigative Commission, which deals with issues of defense, anti-corruption policy, and human rights compliance during martial law, according to a UA.News correspondent.
Shtilerman recalled that in Russia, everyone born there before 1991 was automatically granted Russian citizenship, and that was the case for him as well.
Committee Chair and MP Oleksiy Honcharenko: Do you currently hold Russian citizenship?
Shtilerman: No, I have been stripped of it.
Goncharenko: Under what circumstances did this happen?
Shtilerman: A (Russian) investigator took action; I was accused of illegally obtaining Russian citizenship and, accordingly, stripped of it.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Corruption Center claims that Denis Shteilerman, a co-owner of Fire Point, attempted to regain his Russian citizenship in the 2010s. According to the organization, this information is contained in a 2018 ruling by the Russian Constitutional Court. In the document, Shteilerman appears under the surname Danilov, which he previously used while living and conducting business in Russia.
Aviation engineer and drone specialist Yuri Kasyanov, while testifying at a meeting of the temporary investigative commission, called FirePoint’s claim to produce 7,000 ballistic missiles per year a technical absurdity.
