{"id":1080,"date":"2025-11-20T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:53:52","slug":"germany-arrest-and-raids-related-to-machinery-exports-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/11\/20\/germany-arrest-and-raids-related-to-machinery-exports-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; arrest and raids related to machinery exports to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German Customs has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoll.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/Sonstiges\/2025\/y22_werkzeugmaschinen_zfas.html\">a press release<\/a> reporting that the Customs Investigation Office and Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in Stuttgart have overseen raids on private and company premises relating to alleged machinery exports to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raids and searches were conducted on 10, 14 and 18 November and a 55-year old man has been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that 5 machine tools were exported to Russia via third countries between October 2023 and December 2024. The value of the machinery is stated to have been \u20ac1.7m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as raiding the exporting company, raids were also conducted on the premises of a freight forwarding company in Duisburg.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Customs has issued a press release reporting that the Customs Investigation Office and Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in Stuttgart have overseen raids on private and company premises relating to alleged machinery exports to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. Raids and searches were conducted on 10, 14 and 18 November and a 55-year old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/11\/20\/germany-arrest-and-raids-related-to-machinery-exports-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; arrest and raids related to machinery exports to Russia&#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":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","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\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}