The German media outlet Südwestrundfunk has conducted a survey of Germany’s state justice ministries, public prosecutors office and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office to compile statistics on recent sanctions investigations in Germany.
The vast majority of these are said to relate to Russian and Belarusian sanctions although enforcement of other regimes is included.
The results are:
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- Saxony – 451 investigations
- Bavaria – 448 investigations
- Hesse – 406 investigations
- Hamburg – 161 investigations
- Schleswig-Holstein – 112 investigations
- Brandenburg – 107 investigations (of which 38 discontinued)
- Bremen – 103 investigations
- Baden-Württemberg – 90 investigations (of which 52 in Stuttgart, of which 44 discontinued)
- Rhineland-Palatinate – 73 investigations (of which 50 discontinued)
- Saarland – 21 investigations
- Mecklenburg Western Pomerania – 9 investigations
- Thuringia – 7 investigations
This is a total of 1,988 investigations conducted since 24 February 2022. No data were reported for the states of Lower Saxony or Anhalt, so this figure is not complete.
In September last year (see earlier post) it was reported that there were 150 on-going investigations in Germany. The new survey reports a minimum of 176 investigations now reported as ongoing, although many regions did not provide a figure for currently ongoing investigations.