{"id":1101,"date":"2025-12-08T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:39:29","slug":"latvia-prosecution-for-providing-professional-services-to-russian-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/08\/latvia-prosecution-for-providing-professional-services-to-russian-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; prosecution for providing professional services to Russian companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Latvia&#8217;s VDD has asked the Prosecution Office to commence a prosecution of a latvian national for providing prohibited services to companies in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/society\/crime\/08.12.2025-latvian-security-service-seeks-prosecution-over-sanctions-breaching-consultancy.a625453\/\">the press release<\/a>: &#8220;DD found that the Latvian citizen had entered into employment contracts with multiple companies registered in Russia, where the person held the positions of general director and director and directly gave prohibited consultations on economic activities, management\u00a0and taxation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This prosecution is one of several recently launched in Latvia (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/21\/latvia-state-security-service-seeks-two-prosecutions-of-individuals-for-alleged-russian-sanctions-breaches\/\">our earlier post<\/a>) in relation to alleged breaches of the prohibitions contained in regulation 5n of 833\/2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia&#8217;s VDD has asked the Prosecution Office to commence a prosecution of a latvian national for providing prohibited services to companies in Russia. As per the press release: &#8220;DD found that the Latvian citizen had entered into employment contracts with multiple companies registered in Russia, where the person held the positions of general director and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/08\/latvia-prosecution-for-providing-professional-services-to-russian-companies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; prosecution for providing professional services to Russian companies&#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":[30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-latvia","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\/1101","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=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}