{"id":1026,"date":"2025-09-30T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:55:18","slug":"finland-26-investigations-into-breaches-of-trade-sanctions-started-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/30\/finland-26-investigations-into-breaches-of-trade-sanctions-started-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland &#8211; 26 investigations into breaches of trade sanctions started in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=836&amp;action=edit\">our earlier post<\/a> regarding Finland&#8217;s hundreds of sanctions investigations, we are pleased to acknowledge the help of Finnish Customs in supplying newly-updated information on the investigations so far commenced for breaches of the EU&#8217;s trade sanctions. These figures do not include investigations relating to financial sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While information on the penalties\/sentences imposed is not available it can be noted that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Petty regulation offences are punishable only by fines;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regulation offences are punishable by fine or imprisonment for a maximum of 2 years; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aggravated regulation offences are punishable by imprisonment of at least 4 months and not more than 4 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The updated figures include concluded enforcement actions up to 17 September 2025, and include some revisions to the previously supplied data for the previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously noted the reduction in the punishment of petty regulation offences between 2023 and 2024 is most likely to be attributed to the closures of the land crossings into Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Petty Regulation Offence<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Regulation Offence<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Aggravated Regulation Offence<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>104<\/td><td>163<\/td><td>39<\/td><td>306<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>353<\/td><td>81<\/td><td>58<\/td><td>492<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>5<\/td><td>59<\/td><td>35<\/td><td>99<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2025<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>9<\/td><td>26<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><td>464<\/td><td>318<\/td><td>141<\/td><td><strong>923<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post regarding Finland&#8217;s hundreds of sanctions investigations, we are pleased to acknowledge the help of Finnish Customs in supplying newly-updated information on the investigations so far commenced for breaches of the EU&#8217;s trade sanctions. These figures do not include investigations relating to financial sanctions. While information on the penalties\/sentences imposed is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/09\/30\/finland-26-investigations-into-breaches-of-trade-sanctions-started-in-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finland &#8211; 26 investigations into breaches of trade sanctions started in 2025&#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":[29,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-finland","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\/1026","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=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}