The Rotterdam District Court has convicted a manager of a wholesale business of exports to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.
The export was of 128,000 litres of acetone, which is a product listed in Annex IX of the EU regulation.
The sentence was for a three month sentence suspended for 2 years and 180 hours of community service. This was lower than sought by the prosecution.
The company responsible for the exports was acquitted on the basis that the prosecution only commenced after it had already been wound up.