Complicit Dossier

Procurement and supply networks · airline · Kyrgyzstan / United Arab Emirates

New Way Cargo / Astraway FZC (Il-76 EX-76011, later ST-JAN)

  • Context only
  • Grade B: CorroboratedStrongest record: corroborated
  • 1 documented tie · 1 step from the SAF

Il-76 previously used on the UAE-Chad airlift for the RSF was transferred to the Sudanese register in Jan 2024 and flew airdrops for the SAF to El Fasher with a Russian crew until shot down on 21 Oct 2024.

Their response

  • New Way Cargo (Zuurakan Kadyrova) to AP: its lease expired at end-2023 and 'we have no records regarding the aircraft' since. Astraway FZC told Reuters it stopped working with EX-76011 and its crew in Dec 2023.

Records

1

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Grade B: Corroborated

New Way Cargo / Astraway FZC (Il-76 EX-76011, later ST-JAN)

Dec 2023 - 21 Oct 2024

Il-76 previously used on the UAE-Chad airlift for the RSF was transferred to the Sudanese register in Jan 2024 and flew airdrops for the SAF to El Fasher with a Russian crew until shot down on 21 Oct 2024.

Response
New Way Cargo to AP: its lease expired at end-2023 and 'we have no records regarding the aircraft' since. Astraway FZC told Reuters it stopped working with EX-76011 and its crew in Dec 2023.
Sanctions
None found.
  1. 1Sudan War Monitor: Mercenary aviation: Russian cargo planes helped both sides in Sudan's war (quoting Reuters, AP) · sudanwarmonitor.com · 26 Oct 2024
  2. 2SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, trade register, recipient Sudan, deliveries 2019-2025 (generated 3 Oct 2026; CSV saved in raw/arms/) · armstransfers.sipri.org · 3 Oct 2026

NamesUAERussia

1 more record below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Relationships

1

← means the other party acts on this one; → means this one acts on the other.

Arms and supply · 1

1 more relationship below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Dated events

1

  1. Il-76 EX-76011 removed from Kyrgyz register and transferred to Sudan (later ST-JAN). sudanwarmonitor.com

    Grade B: Corroborated

1 more event below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.

Geography

Tags come from the recorded jurisdiction and from place names in the records. Coordinates on the map are approximate.

Based in
Kyrgyzstan, United Arab Emirates
Also named
Russia (1), Chad (1)
Places
El Fasher

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records.