{"id":1173,"date":"2026-03-04T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:21:12","slug":"germany-two-customs-investigations-into-russian-imports-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/04\/germany-two-customs-investigations-into-russian-imports-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; two Customs investigations into Russian imports\/exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two previously missed investigations from German customs into luxury car exports to Russia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoll.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/Sonstiges\/2025\/y07_pkws_zfadd.html\">December 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After commencing an investigation in December 2024, and raids conducted in May 2025, German Customs obtained an asset freeze over \u20ac16.5m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is into a 41 year-old German-Moldovan national suspected of exporting 236 vehicles to Russia valued at \u20ac18.86m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further searches were conducted at properties in Ger and Teuchern in December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoll.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/Sonstiges\/2026\/z77_durchsuchungen_zfae.html\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raids and property searches were carried out in Hamburg relating to a company&#8217;s managing director suspected of more than 900 prohibited imports from Russia valued at over \u20ac4m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The press release notes that &#8220;due to the ongoing investigations, no statement can yet be made about the type of goods&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two previously missed investigations from German customs into luxury car exports to Russia: A. December 16, 2025 After commencing an investigation in December 2024, and raids conducted in May 2025, German Customs obtained an asset freeze over \u20ac16.5m. The investigation is into a 41 year-old German-Moldovan national suspected of exporting 236 vehicles to Russia valued &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/04\/germany-two-customs-investigations-into-russian-imports-exports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; two Customs investigations into Russian imports\/exports&#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":[104,80,2],"tags":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-consumer-products-and-services","category-general","tag-germany","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\/1173","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=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}