{"id":1146,"date":"2026-02-13T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:19:07","slug":"latvia-prosecution-for-providing-it-services-to-russian-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/13\/latvia-prosecution-for-providing-it-services-to-russian-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; prosecution for providing IT services to Russian company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/society\/crime\/12.02.2026-security-service-seeks-prosecution-for-latvian-helping-russian-company.a634339\/\">State Security Service of Latvia has announced<\/a> the prosecution of an individual for providing programming services to a Russian company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fifth recent prosecution in Latvia either in relation to the provision of prohibited services under Regulation 833\/2014, or the provision of services to a designated person with the services treated as an &#8220;economic resource&#8221; that breaches the imposed asset freeze (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/06\/latvia-state-security-service-seeks-prosecution-for-providing-project-management-services\/\">October 2025<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/10\/21\/latvia-state-security-service-seeks-two-prosecutions-of-individuals-for-alleged-russian-sanctions-breaches\/\">October 2025<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/08\/latvia-prosecution-for-providing-professional-services-to-russian-companies\/\">December 2025<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/12\/23\/latvia-raids-and-arrest-for-alleged-sanctions-breaches\/\">December 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individual is also being prosecuted on the basis that his salary was paid into Alfa-Bank, which is a designated person under the EU&#8217;s sanctions, and that this constitute making funds available to that designated person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Security Service of Latvia has announced the prosecution of an individual for providing programming services to a Russian company. This is the fifth recent prosecution in Latvia either in relation to the provision of prohibited services under Regulation 833\/2014, or the provision of services to a designated person with the services treated as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/02\/13\/latvia-prosecution-for-providing-it-services-to-russian-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; prosecution for providing IT services to Russian company&#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":[104,72],"tags":[20,30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-financial-sanctions","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\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}