{"id":1108,"date":"2025-12-23T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:14:38","slug":"lithuania-raids-as-part-of-investigation-into-sanctioned-exports-to-russia-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/23\/lithuania-raids-as-part-of-investigation-into-sanctioned-exports-to-russia-and-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; raids as part of investigation into sanctioned exports to Russia and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is being reported (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/live\/izdeliya-organizovannoy-gruppirovki-iz-litvy-mogli-ispolzovat-v-rossiyskoy-voennoy-promyshlennosti-120189973\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/en\/384141\">here<\/a>) that Lithuania&#8217;s Financial Crime Investigation Service and the State Security Department, with coordinating assistance from the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, are undertaking an investigation into suspected breaches of the EU&#8217;s Russian and Belarus sanctions by Lithuanian, Russian and Belarus individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is alleged that those involved forged documents to obtain funding from the EU Space Agency, and that the money was then used (with other funds) by a company incorporated in Lithuania to obtain and export microchips, semiconductors, navigation systems, and other technical devices to Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total 10 raids were conducted, and 5 individuals and one company are under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported (here and here) that Lithuania&#8217;s Financial Crime Investigation Service and the State Security Department, with coordinating assistance from the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, are undertaking an investigation into suspected breaches of the EU&#8217;s Russian and Belarus sanctions by Lithuanian, Russian and Belarus individuals. It is alleged that those involved forged documents &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/23\/lithuania-raids-as-part-of-investigation-into-sanctioned-exports-to-russia-and-belarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; raids as part of investigation into sanctioned exports to Russia and Belarus&#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":[95,72],"tags":[65,13,27,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-belarus","tag-dual-use-goods","tag-lithuania","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\/1108","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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}