In recent publications our Association researched carefully the activities of the so called “Federal StateUnitary Enterprise” “Post of Crimea” that was formed illegally to “maintain postal communication” inthe Crimea, by the order of the Government of Russia, 2014 № 648-r [1], [2] including the “officialannual reports” of the “Post of Crimea” in 2015-2020. Those “reports” prove clearly that the “Post ofCrimea” signed and executed as minimum since 2015 the commercial agreements with “Avon BeautyProducts Company”, LLC, registered in Moscow, Russia (tax code 7708234256) [3].
Regarding to those reports [4-7] the annual income of “Post of Crimea” from distribution andrealization of the products of the “Avon” in the Crimea is approximately 30-60 millions of roubles. Andmore, Russia-registered “Avon” does not hide its own activities in the Crimea on its own web-sources[8]. Regarding the Russia’s registers of legal entities the “Avon Beauty Products Company” is 100%owned by the Netherland’s company “Avon Netherlands Holdings II B.V.”, company number (KVK)34287768, located and registered at Amsterdam. And more, regarding the Netherland registers the“Avon Netherlands Holdings II B.V.” is fully controlled by the US company “New Avon LLC” [9],formerly “Avon Products, Inc.” [10] located in New York [11].
Let us remind our readers that on 30 July 2014, the Council of the EU adopted additional measuresrestricting trade with and investment in the Crimea. On 18 December 2014, the Council furtherrestricted investment in the Crimea, trade in goods and technology for use in certain sectors in theCrimea were restricted. US’s sanctions regarding the Crimea, established in 2014, cover all issuesrelated with operating in the Crimea, leading an entity operating in the Crimea, materially assisting,sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or insupport of a “Russia’s senior officials” acting in the Crimea.
So the common commercial activities of the “Avon Beauty Products Company” (Moscow, Russia),“Avon Netherlands Holdings II B.V.” (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and “New Avon LLC” (New York, USA)in the Crimea are the direct, systematic and massive violation of the sanctions regimes, established byEuropean Union and U.S. Agreements between “Avon” and “Post of Crimea” are the direct form offinancial support by “Avon” companies the Russian illegal “governing infrastructure” in the Crimea inlarge volumes, that allows to the “Post of Crimea” to get large commercial income.
So our Association sent official submissions, describing those facts, to the governing institutions of theEuropean Union, Netherlands and United States with mandate in areas of external relationa andsanctions policy, where asked them to react, in the framework of their mandates, on theabovementioned brutal violation of the sanction policy by “Avon” companies united in commoncorporation and to inform our Association on the achieved results of their activities. We also hopethat those Crimea-related illegal activities of the “Avon” companies may fall into the scope of Ukrainianlegal enforcement bodies’ actions.
- http://static.government.ru/media/files/41d4d649f96f5d81fc0e.pdf.
- https://arc.construction/18733.
- https://www.list-org.com/company/15077.
- https://digital.gov.ru/uploaded/files/doklad-o-finans-hoz-deyat-za2015g.pdf.
- https://digital.gov.ru/uploaded/files/doklad-o-finansovo-hoz-deyatelnosti-fgup-pochta-kryima-za-2016.pdf.
- http://www.crimea-post.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/doklad-fin-hoz-za-2019.pdf.
- http://www.crimea-post.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/doklad-fin-hoz-za-2020.pdf.
- https://avonlab.ru/punkty-vydachi-zakazov/kryim.html.
- https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1499003D:US.
- https://opencorporates.com/companies/nl/34287768.
- https://www.winmo.com/open/company/associations-and-organizations-foundations-and-cultural-institutions/ny/new-york/new-avon-llc/2024.
