{"id":1125,"date":"2026-01-19T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2026-01-19T06:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:57:43","slug":"italy-investigation-and-vessel-seizure-for-alleged-cargo-of-russian-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/italy-investigation-and-vessel-seizure-for-alleged-cargo-of-russian-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy &#8211; investigation and vessel seizure for alleged cargo of Russian metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Italy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdf.gov.it\/it\/gdf-comunica\/notizie-ed-eventi\/comunicati-stampa\/anno-2026\/gennaio\/contrasto-alla-criminalita-economica-e-finanziaria\">Guardia di Finanza and Customs Agency<\/a> have seized a vessel in the port of Brindisi as part of an investigation into the alleged import of 33,000 tons of ferrous metal in breach of the EU&#8217;s Russian sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through vessel tracking, including the time and location of the vessel turning off its transponder, the Italian authorities allege that the vessel was loaded at the port of Novorossiysk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/italy-intercepts-cargo-ship-with-russian-metal-in-sanctions-enforcement-move-15109\">Other reporting<\/a> has named the vessel as Tuvalu flagged Hizir Reis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Guardia di Finanza and Customs Agency have seized a vessel in the port of Brindisi as part of an investigation into the alleged import of 33,000 tons of ferrous metal in breach of the EU&#8217;s Russian sanctions. Through vessel tracking, including the time and location of the vessel turning off its transponder, the Italian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/italy-investigation-and-vessel-seizure-for-alleged-cargo-of-russian-metal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italy &#8211; investigation and vessel seizure for alleged cargo of Russian metal&#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":[104,2],"tags":[42,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-italy","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\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}