“The Moscow Region prosecutor’s office has initiated an audit of US-based company Mars, which makes candy, food products and animal feed, to identify instances of providing financing for the Ukrainian army and the existence of any unpaid taxes, a law enforcement source told TASS on Friday. ‘Currently, the Moscow Region prosecutor’s office is conducting an audit of Mars LLC to identify any illegal activities, in particular the company is being audited for potentially providing financial assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as for the veracity of revenues earned and whether all taxes due have been paid to the Russian treasury,’ the source said,” says a press release from the Putin regime via Kremlin state propaganda outlet TASS.
The release did not mention the “sexy” green M&Ms character who became the bane of former Fox News chief white nationalist Tucker Carlson’s existence for so many hours of programming, but we would have to assume that Mars’s “woke” advertising played some sort of role in Russia’s enmity.