{"id":1011,"date":"2025-09-03T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:17:13","slug":"spain-appeal-court-upholds-pre-trial-detention-in-russian-sanctions-prosecution-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/03\/spain-appeal-court-upholds-pre-trial-detention-in-russian-sanctions-prosecution-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain &#8211; appeal court upholds pre-trial detention in Russian sanctions prosecution case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nordicmonitor.com\/2025\/09\/spain-flags-ankaras-growing-role-in-sanctions-evasion-for-russia\/\">Press reporting<\/a> has brought to light a Spanish judgment upholding the pre-trial detention of a Georgian national named only &#8220;Alexander&#8221; who is suspected of exporting a range of goods and machinery to Russia via Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nordicmonitor.com\/?pdfemb-data=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbm9yZGljbW9uaXRvci5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjVcLzA5XC9TcGFpbl9BbGV4YW5kZXJfUnVzc2lhX3NhbmN0aW9uX2V2YXNpb24ucGRmIiwiaW5kZXgiOjEsInBkZklEIjozNTE2N30\">judgment is here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that the individual had company seals for a range of Spanish, Turkish and Russian companies and was able to prepare documentation that gave the appearance of legitimate exports to Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WhatsApp messages, however, are said to have revealed the end-customers in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear whether this judgment relates to another Spanish investigation related to the export of machinery through third countries (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/18\/spain-arrests-and-detentions-for-the-export-of-prohibited-machinery-to-russia\/\">see our earlier post<\/a>), or is a separate investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press reporting has brought to light a Spanish judgment upholding the pre-trial detention of a Georgian national named only &#8220;Alexander&#8221; who is suspected of exporting a range of goods and machinery to Russia via Turkey. The judgment is here. It is alleged that the individual had company seals for a range of Spanish, Turkish and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/03\/spain-appeal-court-upholds-pre-trial-detention-in-russian-sanctions-prosecution-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spain &#8211; appeal court upholds pre-trial detention in Russian sanctions prosecution case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,2],"tags":[14,18,53,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-russia","tag-spain","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}