{"id":1126,"date":"2026-01-19T07:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:07:51","slug":"portugal-prosecution-brought-against-football-club-for-receiving-payment-from-sanctioned-russian-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/portugal-prosecution-brought-against-football-club-for-receiving-payment-from-sanctioned-russian-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal &#8211; prosecution brought against football club for receiving payment from sanctioned Russian club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/pt.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/16\/casa-pia-acusado-de-violar-sancoes-da-ue-ao-receber-dinheiro-russo\">being reported<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publico.pt\/2026\/01\/16\/desporto\/noticia\/casa-pia-acusado-esconder-origem-dinheiro-russo-violar-sancoes-ue-2161264\">here behind<\/a> a paywall) that Portuguese football club Casa Pia, and the clb&#8217;s executive manager, are being prosecuted by Portugal&#8217;s Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for an alleged breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The allegation is that the club received \u20ac1.5 million from the Russian football club FC Akhmat in payment for a player transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FC Akhmat is said to be owned by Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a designated person under the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports also state that the indictment includes accusations of forgery and money laundering as part of deceiving the club&#8217;s bank as to the origin of the funds.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported (and here behind a paywall) that Portuguese football club Casa Pia, and the clb&#8217;s executive manager, are being prosecuted by Portugal&#8217;s Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for an alleged breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. The allegation is that the club received \u20ac1.5 million from the Russian football club FC Akhmat in payment for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/portugal-prosecution-brought-against-football-club-for-receiving-payment-from-sanctioned-russian-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portugal &#8211; prosecution brought against football club for receiving payment from sanctioned Russian club&#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":[20,97,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-portugal","tag-russia"],"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\/1126","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=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}