Customs documents show AMG purchased about $600,000 worth of Tsugami equipment from an official Japanese supplier in 2021. The purchase then increased after the incursion to $50 million in 2023, with the entire increase coming from two shadowy middlemen. Amegino's first provider is a UAE-based provider under US sanctions whose website is initially hosted on servers in Russia. Its owner is Andriy Mironov, according to the corporate intelligence company Diligencia; There are no other details about Mironov's past. The second company is ELE Technology, which fraudulently presents itself as a "division of Gray Machinery Company", a distributor of machine tools in the USA.