{"id":1183,"date":"2026-03-16T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:58:59","slug":"estonia-two-companies-and-two-people-investigated-for-alleged-exports-of-209-cars-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/16\/estonia-two-companies-and-two-people-investigated-for-alleged-exports-of-209-cars-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; two companies and two people investigated for alleged exports of 209 cars to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1609965473\/estonian-woman-suspected-of-25-million-vehicle-sanctions-evasion-scheme\">is being reported<\/a> that the Estonian authorities are investigating a large-scale scheme to export luxury cars to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two individuals and two companies are suspected of exporting 209 vehicles valued at \u20ac25 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far one individual, an Estonian national, has been arrested and is in custody pending further investigations &#8211; the court having determined her to be a flight risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that the Estonian authorities are investigating a large-scale scheme to export luxury cars to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. Two individuals and two companies are suspected of exporting 209 vehicles valued at \u20ac25 million. So far one individual, an Estonian national, has been arrested and is in custody pending &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/16\/estonia-two-companies-and-two-people-investigated-for-alleged-exports-of-209-cars-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; two companies and two people investigated for alleged exports of 209 cars to Russia&#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],"tags":[50,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-estonia","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\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}