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An American who fled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and formed a $ 200 million canned-food Empire, calling President Donald Trump to help save his company Russian Officers According to reports, the business and its property were confiscated.
Los Angeles, Lyonid Smirnov of California, told the New York Post that he was running to save his company, GlaveProdukt, which he started in 1999 and came to be known as Russia’s Campbell.
Smirnov said that what is happening to his company has “published under a government seizure and attempt to seize.”
He also warned that if it could happen to him, it can be with either of the hundreds of companies working from the US in Russia, especially later Russian President Vladimir Putin Foreign businesses began to target after ordering soldiers to invade Ukraine.
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In the last three years, about a dozen businesses have been placed under the “temporary management” of Russian authorities, and Glavprodukt was targeted.
Glavprodukt is known for its canned soup, vegetables, fish and meats in Russia.
The company was also an important piece of Smirnov’s empire, which included 14,000 square feet, $ 20 million mansion once on rent by Paris Hilton in Los Angeles.
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Smirnov told the post that in October 2024, three strangers shown at the headquarters to handle the business, and as per the entrepreneur, they were sent to the business on Putin’s orders.
Orders demanded that Glavprodukt and other assets of Smirnov under their American company, Universal beveragePlanted under “temporary” management by Russian authorities.
Smirnov claims that his company has lost more than 30% of its value as Russian authorities have handled the business, with 1,000 workers between three factories.
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In addition to the disadvantage, Russia’s top prosecutor has accused Smirnov of illegally dipping millions of dollars in the US, as well as working with the US towards Russia’s “strategic necklace”.
A Russian court also ordered that cash and assets associated with Glavprodukt, forcing all Smirnov to sell Smirnov to sell their company at a much lower cost.
Fox has reached Glavprodukt for business comments.
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Last month, State Secretary Marco Rubio was interviewed by Matthew Boyle of Breetbart News, when several Western companies of Russians were first asked to seize.
Boyle said that in October, the Russians took the first American company, Glavprodukt, which is owned by universal drinks, before asking whether Rubio and his team used to pressurize the Russians to pressurize the conversation.
“Well, it would be part of a conversation,” Rubio said, before anything happens, the embassy in Moscow will have to work.
He said that once the embassy is functional, the State Department would invite Russia to talk.
Rubio said, “There are opportunities to work together, and obviously it is not only going to talk about Russian property that has been seized by European or America or what you have, but also American companies that are hurt,” Rubio said. “So it will have to be widespread – it is part of a comprehensive conversation about how to reset our relationships.”
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Nevertheless, Smirnov is afraid that his company will not be present until the US and Russia reset their relations.
Meanwhile, he told The Post, he wants to step down Trump and tell that there are limits of Putin -owned businesses.
“I am asking President Trump To join it and save my company, save all other American companies, “he said.
