Russian canned soup empire calls for Trump to rescue $200M business from Putin

In the 1970s, an American and a canned $ 200 million reserves were built, calling President Donald Trump to help save his company after his company. Russian Authorities: According to reports, the business and his assets have captured.

Leonid Smirnov, California, told the post of New York that he was competing with his company to save Glavprodukt, which he started in 1999.

Smirnov said what happened to his company, “Raid is under the experience of seizure and confiscation of the government.”

He also warned that if this could happen to him, it may happen to any of the hundreds of companies operating in Russia, especially since then. Russian President Vladimir Putin It started to target foreign businesses after he ordered troops to invade Ukraine.

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Over the past three years, almost a dozen businesses have been launched under the “temporary management” of the Russian authorities, and Glavproduk was the first to be targeted.

Glavprodukt has become known in Russia for its canned foods, vegetables, fish and meat.

The company was also the most important piece of Smirnov Empire, which includes a $ 20 million private house worth $ 20 million, which once leased Paris Hilton in Los Angeles.

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Smirnov said that in October 2024, three strangers received the headquarters for assuming business, and according to the entrepreneur, they were sent to the case with Putin’s orders.

Orders required that Glavprodukt and other SMIRNOV assets under the American company, Universal drinksPosted under the “temporary” management of the Russian authorities.

Smirnov claims that his company has lost 30% of its value, as the Russian authorities have taken over the business between the three factories of 1,000 employees.

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In addition to the losses, the Russian Supreme Prosecutor has accused Smirnov millions of dollars to spry no millions of dollars with Russia, as well as to cooperate with the United States with Russia.

In Russia, the court also ordered that cash and assets connected to Glavproduk, all, with efforts, Smirnov would force him to sell his company at a much lower price than its value.

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Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an interview with Bratyart’s news Math Boyle, when a number of Russian Western companies asked.

Boyle noted that in October the Russians took the first American company, Glavprodukt, which belongs to the universal drink before asking the Russians in the negotiations.

“Well, it will be a part of the conversation,” said Rubion, before noting that something could happen before anything happens in Moscow.

He continued, saying that the embassy is functional, the State Department will invite Russia to speak.
“There are opportunities to work together, and it is obvious that this will bring not only about Russian assets, which were confiscated by Europeans or the United States, but also to American companies, said Rubio. “Thus, it must be a wide, more wider conversation, how to restore our relationship.”

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Still Smirnov is afraid that his company does not exist when the United States and Russia will restore their relations.

At the same time, he said the post, he wants Trump to step and tell Putin beyond America’s business.

“I ask President Trump To get involved and save my company, save all American companies, “he said.