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The American who fled from the Soviet Union at the age of 70 and built an empire of canned food of $ 200 million, calls on President Donald Trump to help save his company then Russian organs According to reports, he confiscated business and his assets.
Leonid Smirnov of Los Angeles, California, told New York Post to compete to save his company Glavprodukt, which began in 1999, and became known as Russian Campbell.
Smirnov said that what is happening to his society is “air raid under attempted seizures and confiscation”.
He also warned that if it could happen to him, it could happen any of the hundreds of companies working from the US in Russia, especially then Russian President Vladimir Putin He began to target foreign companies after ordering the soldiers to attack Ukraine.
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Over the past three years, almost a dozen businesses have been included under the “temporary management” of the Russian authorities and the Glava product was the first to focus.
In Russia, Glavprodukt became known for its canned soups, vegetables, fish and meat.
The company was also a decisive piece of Smirnov's empire, which includes an area of 14,000 square feet, $ 20 million, when Paris Hilton in Los Angeles was rented.
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Smirnov told the post that in October 2024 three foreigners appeared in the headquarters to take over business, and, according to the entrepreneur, were sent to business at Putin's orders.
Orders demanded that Glavprodukt and Smirnov's other assets under his American company, Beverageto be placed under the “temporary” leadership by Russian authorities.
Smirnov claims that his company has lost up to 30% of its value because the Russian authorities have taken over a business employing 1,000 workers between three factories.
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In addition to the losses, the highest prosecutor of Russia, in the last month, he accused Smirnov of illegal siphoning of millions to the US and also worked with the US on the “strategic defeat” of Russia.
The court in Russia also ordered that the cash and assets associated with the Glavproducts were confiscated, all in an effort to force Smirnov to sell their company at a much lower price than its value.
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Last month, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio was asked by Matthew Boyl of Breitbart News when the former was asked to confiscate a number of Western societies.
Boyle noted that in October the Russians took the first American company Glavprodukt, owned by Universal Beverage before asked if it was something that would be Rubio and his team to push the Russians when negotiating.
“Well, he'll be part of the interview,” Rubio said before noticing that the embassy in Moscow had to work before it could happen.
He continued and said that as soon as the embassy is functional, the Foreign Ministry will invite Russia to speak.
“There are opportunities to cooperate, and of course it will mean talking not only about Russian assets that were confiscated by Europeans or the US or what you have, but also American companies that were injured,” Rubio said. “So it will have to be wide – part of a wider conversation on how to reset our relationships.”
Yet Smirnov is afraid that his society will not exist at a time when the US and Russia are resetting their relations.
Meanwhile, he said he wanted Trump to enter and say that US US businesses were out of limits.
“I ask President Trump If you want to get involved and save my company, save all other American companies, ”he said.
