{"id":1180,"date":"2026-03-11T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:12:21","slug":"spain-raids-and-three-arrests-relating-to-alleged-transfers-of-villas-by-a-designated-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/11\/spain-raids-and-three-arrests-relating-to-alleged-transfers-of-villas-by-a-designated-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain &#8211; raids and three arrests relating to alleged transfers of villas by a designated person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2026-03-09\/la-policia-registra-en-mallorca-mansiones-sospechosas-de-pertenecer-a-nikolai-kolesov-oligarca-ruso-cercano-a-putin.html\">Monday the Spanish authorities conducted raids<\/a> on multiple properties in Mallorca alleged to be owned by or for Nikolai Kolesov, a businessman designated under the EU&#8217;s sanctions since December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2026-03-10\/tres-detenidos-por-la-supuesta-venta-fraudulenta-de-cinco-mansiones-ocultas-en-mallorca-de-nikolai-kolesov-oligarca-ruso-cercano-a-putin.html\">Three people have been arrested<\/a> including a lawyer and someone who stood as proxy as part of the alleged transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raids were conducted on the homes of those arrested and at the villa properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the Spanish authorities conducted raids on multiple properties in Mallorca alleged to be owned by or for Nikolai Kolesov, a businessman designated under the EU&#8217;s sanctions since December 2024. Three people have been arrested including a lawyer and someone who stood as proxy as part of the alleged transactions. The raids were conducted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/11\/spain-raids-and-three-arrests-relating-to-alleged-transfers-of-villas-by-a-designated-person\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spain &#8211; raids and three arrests relating to alleged transfers of villas by a designated person&#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":[20,18,53],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","tag-spain"],"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\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}