{"id":1163,"date":"2026-03-02T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:05:04","slug":"portugal-public-prosecutor-opens-26-investigations-into-russian-sanctions-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/02\/portugal-public-prosecutor-opens-26-investigations-into-russian-sanctions-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal &#8211; Public Prosecutor opens 26 investigations into Russian sanctions breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noticiasaominuto.com\/pais\/2946342\/sis-avalia-presenca-de-pessoas-ligadas-a-putin-ca-mp-com-26-inqueritos\">being reported<\/a> that the Portuguese Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has opened 26 criminal investigations into possible Russian sanctions breaches since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No further information is provided as to the nature of the alleged offending or the current state of progress of those investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also reported that the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has &#8220;been monitoring and assessing presence in Portugal of elements connected, directly or indirectly with Vladimir Putin&#8217;s regime&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that the Portuguese Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has opened 26 criminal investigations into possible Russian sanctions breaches since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. No further information is provided as to the nature of the alleged offending or the current state of progress of those investigations. It is also reported &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/02\/portugal-public-prosecutor-opens-26-investigations-into-russian-sanctions-breaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portugal &#8211; Public Prosecutor opens 26 investigations into Russian sanctions breaches&#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":[20,97,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-portugal","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\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}