An individual included in the EU’s Global Human Rights sanctions list has been barred from entering Romania and deported.
The press reporting does not name the sanctioned individual, but the reporting indicates the person to have been an Israeli settler.
Polish authorities have charged an individual after attempting to import an inflatable vessel into Poland from Belarus.
The individual is a Belarusian national, and the inflatable craft was identified by Polish customs at the Terespol border checkpoint.
Luxembourg’s financial services regulator, the CSSF, has issued a fine against Rakuten Bank SA for various compliance failings including sanctions and AML.
One of the failings identified was “accumulated significant and recurring delays in processing alerts relating to customer screening against list of persons subject to restrictive measures in financial matters”. The Notice identified a particular example of a customer subject to anti-terrorism sanctions where the review of the alert took more than six months.
Another failing identified was a failure to “apply ‘without delay’ potential restrictive measures in financial matters”.
The Guardia di Finanza and Police in Italy have arrested nine people and seized over €8m in assets as part of an investigation into fundraising on behalf of sanctioned group Hamas.
The Guardia di Finanza press release is here.
The investigation was supported by Eurojust and authorities in the Netherlands.
As part of the investigation premises have been searched in Genoa, Milan, Rome, Turin, Bologna, Bergamo, Florence, Monza Brianza, Lodi and Sassuolo, with cash of €1,080,000 seized.
It is alleged that various front organizations raised funds, not for charitable or humanitarian purposes, but to support the military operations of Hamas.
Finnish Customs are investigating the cargo of structural steel found on board the vessel Fitburg, that has been detained as part of a wider investigation into suspected damage to an undersea cable that runs between Helsinki and Tallinn.
The Russian steel was on board the vessel that departed St Petersburg before the ship was detained. The steel is subject to import prohibitions under the EU’s Russian sanctions.
