“While Guardian’s business in Russia is a very small part of Koch, we will not walk away from our employees there or hand over these manufacturing facilities to the Russian government so it can operate and benefit from them,' said COO Dave Robertson.
Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan., company run by billionaire Republican megadonor Charles Koch, broke its silence on plans for its Russia operations on Wednesday — and said it would continue to operate its two glass-manufacturing facilities there.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said the news was shameful and charged Koch with putting profit ahead of defending democracy. “American companies that continue to do business in Russia should not receive U.S. tax benefits that offset taxes paid to Putin’s regime,” they said.
The Koch statement came after the newsletter Popular Information broke the news Monday that Koch was continuing in Russia on a business-as-usual basis, based on comments and statements made by the company since the start of the attack. “The horrific and abhorrent aggression against Ukraine is an affront to humanity,” Robertson said in his statement. “It violates our company’s values and principles, which are grounded in the fundamental truth that the system most conducive to human wellbeing, progress, civility and peace is one based on respect for the dignity of the individual, the consistent rule of law and the right to freely exchange goods and services.
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