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Flipper Devices, Inc. is a Delaware Corp:

https://www.flipperdevices.com/

The actual source of Flipper is a Russian company. Forming a shell company in the US doesn't change that. Sadly the Flipper team is a casualty of Putins ambitions, because they seem a good team of hackers that did a good job with their product. But the platform and software updates they provide may be susceptible to Russian gov coercion, which is I suspect the risk that many are concerned about.

[edit-to-add] that issue is orthogonal to Amazon yanking it for being a tool that could be used for potentially criminal activity. but maybe added to their decision..

It's also orthogonal to the question of how they get the money. The US entity can get paid, the question is whether the US entity is able to pay Flipper employees.

I suspect sanctions and international finance laws are a bit more complex than that. It could be that a US legal entity that is fronting for a sanctioned country can indeed be blocked from receiving money, but you'd have to get a quorum of international finance lawyers to hammer out an agreement on that to have any chance of drawing a conclussion...

> that issue is orthogonal to Amazon [...] but maybe added to their decision.

So, not orthogonal?

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