{"id":1172,"date":"2026-03-04T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:56:13","slug":"belgium-e10m-payment-and-rectifying-infractions-required-to-obtain-release-of-seized-shadow-fleet-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/04\/belgium-e10m-payment-and-rectifying-infractions-required-to-obtain-release-of-seized-shadow-fleet-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium &#8211; \u20ac10m payment and rectifying infractions required to obtain release of seized shadow fleet tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/02\/belgium-criminal-investigation-opened-after-north-sea-seizure-of-tanker-ethera\/\">earlier post<\/a> regarding the Belgian seizure of the tanker, the <em>Ethera<\/em>, it is now being reported that 45 infractions have been identified in relation to the flag status and condition of the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also being reported that these infractions will need to be rectified before the vessel will be released and that a \u20ac10m payment will need to be made. Different reports (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/belgium-holds-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-on-10m-euro-bond-a92111\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesoir.be\/732221\/article\/2026-03-03\/une-caution-de-plus-de-10-millions-deuros-imposee-sur-le-navire-russe-arraisonne\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/belgium-fines-sanctioned-tanker-10m-and-detains-it-for-safety-violations\">here<\/a>) describe this payment as a bond, a bail payment, or a fine.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post regarding the Belgian seizure of the tanker, the Ethera, it is now being reported that 45 infractions have been identified in relation to the flag status and condition of the vessel. It is also being reported that these infractions will need to be rectified before the vessel will be released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/04\/belgium-e10m-payment-and-rectifying-infractions-required-to-obtain-release-of-seized-shadow-fleet-tanker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belgium &#8211; \u20ac10m payment and rectifying infractions required to obtain release of seized shadow fleet tanker&#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":[104,70],"tags":[36,12,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-belgium","tag-fine","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\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}