{"id":1049,"date":"2025-10-21T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:19:43","slug":"albania-investigations-into-possible-trade-in-russian-and-libyan-oil-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/21\/albania-investigations-into-possible-trade-in-russian-and-libyan-oil-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania &#8211; investigations into possible trade in Russian and Libyan oil products"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigative reporting by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2025\/10\/14\/albania-emerges-as-destination-port-for-illicit-oil-from-russia-and-libya\/\">Balkan Insight<\/a><\/em> has revealed a number of investigations in Albania relating to alleged imports of Russian-origin oil products at the ports of Durres and Porto Romano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigations have included seizures of oil cargo from a number of vessels including in January of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same report mentions a number of investigations into alleged imports of Libyan oil in 2022 and 2023 in breach of sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albania has broadly adopted the EU&#8217;s sanctions against both Russia and Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigative reporting by Balkan Insight has revealed a number of investigations in Albania relating to alleged imports of Russian-origin oil products at the ports of Durres and Porto Romano. The investigations have included seizures of oil cargo from a number of vessels including in January of this year. The same report mentions a number of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/21\/albania-investigations-into-possible-trade-in-russian-and-libyan-oil-products\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Albania &#8211; investigations into possible trade in Russian and Libyan oil products&#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":[103,67,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-albania","tag-libya","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","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}