{"id":1067,"date":"2025-11-03T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:39:28","slug":"germany-investigation-into-alleged-luxury-car-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/11\/03\/germany-investigation-into-alleged-luxury-car-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; investigation into alleged luxury car exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German Customs has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoll.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/Sonstiges\/2025\/y86_verstoss_gegen_sanktionen_zfahh.html\">16 July Press release<\/a> relating to raids and an investigation into alleged exports of luxury cars worth \u20ac3.4m to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation was prompted by a suspicious activity report made to Germany&#8217;s FIU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation involves Hamburg Customs Investigation Office and the Hanover Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that the exporter made false customs declarations purporting to indicate that the cars were destined for non-sanctioned countries, while the investigators determined that the cars were all subsequently registered in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Customs has issued a 16 July Press release relating to raids and an investigation into alleged exports of luxury cars worth \u20ac3.4m to Russia. The investigation was prompted by a suspicious activity report made to Germany&#8217;s FIU. The investigation involves Hamburg Customs Investigation Office and the Hanover Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. It is alleged that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/11\/03\/germany-investigation-into-alleged-luxury-car-exports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; investigation into alleged luxury car exports&#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":[95,80,2,70],"tags":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-consumer-products-and-services","category-general","category-infrastructure-and-transport","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\/1067","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=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}