{"id":1021,"date":"2025-09-16T06:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:39:26","slug":"germany-prosecution-seeks-5-year-jail-term-for-sanctions-violation-ringleader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/16\/germany-prosecution-seeks-5-year-jail-term-for-sanctions-violation-ringleader\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; prosecution seeks 5 year jail term for sanctions violation ringleader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/regionales\/hamburg\/article68c411fa8276cc6e68d45dba\/Haftstrafen-fuer-Verstoesse-gegen-Russland-Sanktionen-gefordert.html\">being reported<\/a> that as part of an ongoing trial in Hamburg, that the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is seeking a jail term of 5 years and 10 months for the main defendant. It is noteworthy that the Defence is seeking a jail term of 3 and a half years underlining the seriousness of the offending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged offending relates to the export of approximately \u20ac800,000 in electrical components and laboratory supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are four other individual defendants with the prosecution seeking shorter jail terms of suspended sentences for those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial has been ongoing since April, and the verdict is expected shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that as part of an ongoing trial in Hamburg, that the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is seeking a jail term of 5 years and 10 months for the main defendant. It is noteworthy that the Defence is seeking a jail term of 3 and a half years underlining the seriousness of the offending. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/16\/germany-prosecution-seeks-5-year-jail-term-for-sanctions-violation-ringleader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; prosecution seeks 5 year jail term for sanctions violation ringleader&#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":[95,72],"tags":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-germany","tag-russia","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\/1021","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=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}