{"id":1193,"date":"2026-03-26T07:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:27","slug":"sweden-raids-on-large-company-and-two-arrests-in-sanctions-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/26\/sweden-raids-on-large-company-and-two-arrests-in-sanctions-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; raids on &#8220;large company&#8221; and two arrests in sanctions investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s Public Prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aklagare.se\/for-media\/pressmeddelanden\/2026\/mars\/tva-personer-anhallna-for-grovt-sanktionsbrott-i-sundsvall\/\">has issued a press release<\/a> making public raids conducted this morning at the premises of an unnamed &#8220;large company&#8221; in Sundsvall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two unnamed &#8220;people in senior positions&#8221; have also been arrested on suspicion of aggravated sanctions violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The press release does not include information on the suspected breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the web links to information on Sweden&#8217;s Russian sanctions included in the press release, the investigation is very likely to relate to suspected breaches of the EU&#8217;s Russian sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s Public Prosecutor has issued a press release making public raids conducted this morning at the premises of an unnamed &#8220;large company&#8221; in Sundsvall. Two unnamed &#8220;people in senior positions&#8221; have also been arrested on suspicion of aggravated sanctions violations. The press release does not include information on the suspected breaches. Given the web links &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/26\/sweden-raids-on-large-company-and-two-arrests-in-sanctions-investigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; raids on &#8220;large company&#8221; and two arrests in sanctions investigation&#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":[20,18,87,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","tag-sweden","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\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}