Aerial view of the Kowloon district in Hong Kong, where a company implicated in bypassing allied sanctions against Russia is registered, February 24, 2026. PETER PARKS/AFP
The Winsum Industrial Building is located in Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong's former airport district, where, until 1998, planes landed close enough to seemingly graze the residential towers of the former British colony. It looks like hundreds of other industrial buildings in Hong Kong from the 1980s; it has about a dozen floors, a beige-grey tiled facade and a modestly guarded entrance with walls lined with metal mailboxes – 25 just on the ground floor. In reality, the premises of many companies registered in Hong Kong are limited to a sole mailbox.
Although its name does not appear on any door on the floor indicated on its website, nor in the directory displayed in the lobby, Woeroon Electronic Resource Ltd is officially registered here. The company is linked to Woeroon Electronic Sourcing Ltd, which was cited the most often in Russian customs records between 2022 and 2024 for importing European products banned by Western sanctions, according to the report by the US-based Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHKF) that was published on February 18 and is titled "Bypassing the Blockade: How Hong Kong Feeds European Technology Into Russia's War on Ukraine."
