The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP) of Ukraine has included the British company Unilever on its list of international sponsors of the war, the Ukrainian organization announced on Tuesday.
“Unilever he cannot assure that he is against the war and at the same time contributing to Putin’s war machine,” NACP director Oleksadr Novikov said.
Novikov added that the taxes Unilever pays in Russia are helping to finance the attacks on Ukraine.
“Unilever must leave Russia now or history will record his complicity“, he assured.
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Unilever, owner of more than 400 brands such as Domestos, Axe, Rexona, Dove, Calve, Rama, Brooke Bond, Lipton, Crème Bonjour, CIF, Knorr, Sunsilk, Timotei or CLEAR, has more than 3,000 employees in Russia and has increased its operations since the beginning of the war in aggression against Ukraine.
The Unilever profits in Russia they have gone from 4.8 billion rubles (56 million euros) in 2021 to more than 9.2 billion rubles (108 million euros) last year, representing an increase of 91%.