{"id":1140,"date":"2026-02-04T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:05","slug":"germany-state-parliamentarian-arrested-for-suspected-belarus-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/04\/germany-state-parliamentarian-arrested-for-suspected-belarus-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; state parliamentarian arrested for suspected Belarus export"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/12\/05\/germany-sanctions-investigation-into-alleged-exports-to-belarus-by-politicians-company\/\">earlier post<\/a> from 2024, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/razzia-bei-afd-landtagsabgeordneten-aus-sachsen-a-c6087282-a727-4c21-8df3-d24af5056e41\">Leipzig Public Prosecutor&#8217;s office<\/a> has arrested J\u00f6rg Dornau, who is a member of state parliament, on suspicion of breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions against Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous obstacle to his prosecution, parliamentary immunity, has been lifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that he falsified a customs declaration in 2022 indicating Kazakhstan was the destination of the export of a telehandler vehicle, when the real destination was a company in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post from 2024, the Leipzig Public Prosecutor&#8217;s office has arrested J\u00f6rg Dornau, who is a member of state parliament, on suspicion of breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions against Belarus. The previous obstacle to his prosecution, parliamentary immunity, has been lifted. It is alleged that he falsified a customs declaration in 2022 indicating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/04\/germany-state-parliamentarian-arrested-for-suspected-belarus-export\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; state parliamentarian arrested for suspected Belarus export&#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":[65,25,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-belarus","tag-germany","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\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}