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And Hunterbrook can report that according to trade records, Ubiquity did halt direct shipments to Russia following the invasion without ever acknowledging that change.
But their products still flowed into Russia, obviously, through dozens of intermediaries, according to that Hunterbrook analysis of trade data.
And over 10 legal and sanctions experts we talked to said that pleading ignorance, it's not a defensible argument.
Especially because, as we mentioned, this is not the first time Ubiquity Devices ended up where they shouldn't.
Yeah, so 2011.
Yeah, and then U.S.
officials found out that Ubiquity had sold products to a distributor who ended up sending them to Iran.
And after that debacle, Robert Pera acknowledged that this was a huge problem and did a rare interview with Forbes.
He said, quote, this can't happen again.
If it happens again, I'll be in trouble.
Obviously, we have the video that we played that clearly shows Ubiquiti's devices on the front lines.
And we have trade data that shows millions and millions and millions of dollars of Ubiquiti equipment ending up in Russia.
But we wanted to see exactly how this happens.
How, if you're a Russian soldier, and you're raising money on Telegram,
and you're desperate for that Wi-Fi connection.
How easy is it to get a Ubiquiti device?
And so we went undercover.
Yeah, so it's important to know that it's not just their compliance department.
Ubiquity also barely has a sales team, and they rely on third-party vendors to sell their devices.
No, you go to one of their third-party vendors that actually do a lot of their e-commerce sales for them.