Poland Has Placed A Kazakh Company, Which Belongs To Pinskdrev, On The Sanctions List

• 11.07.2025, 11:22

For circumventing sanctions.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland has included the Kazakh company QARTREE LLP in the sanctions list at the request of the National Tax Administration. The tax authority proved that the plywood the company supplied to Poland actually originated from Russia or Belarus and thus circumvented European sanctions, writes Most.

QARTREE was registered in Kazakhstan in September 2022, shortly after sanctions were imposed against the Belarusian and Russian woodworking industry - the measure was one of the responses to the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The founders were Natalia Slokva and the Russian Trade House Mebel KZ, which in turn is owned by the Belarusian Pinskdrev.

In its first year of existence, QARTREE paid over $2 million in VAT in Kazakhstan, employing just five people. And began to export products to Europe: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Bulgaria. The company supplies birch plywood (TN VED code 44123310), and Poland is called its main recipient.

In general, with the introduction of sanctions, imports of wood products from Russia to the EU sharply decreased, while imports from Kazakhstan and Turkey increased. The Polish tax administration (which includes the customs service) proved that this is how restrictions against Russian and Belarusian products are circumvented.

QARTREE became the fifth company to be included in the sanctions list for supplying birch plywood.

Inclusion in the Polish sanctions list means freezing the resources of a legal entity or an individual and a ban on transferring funds to it, inability to participate in public procurement or tenders, and for individuals - inclusion in the register of foreigners whose stay in Poland is undesirable.