{"id":1206,"date":"2026-04-20T05:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:17","slug":"united-kingdom-former-designated-person-charged-with-breaching-his-asset-freeze-under-russian-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/20\/united-kingdom-former-designated-person-charged-with-breaching-his-asset-freeze-under-russian-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; former designated person charged with breaching his asset freeze under Russian sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK&#8217;s National Crime Agency has <a href=\"https:\/\/nca-newsroom.prgloo.com\/news\/charges-brought-for-breach-of-russia-sanctions\">published a press release<\/a> confirming that it has charged John Michael Ormerod with two counts of breaches the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions as well as a money laundering offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ormerod was designated by the UK on 20 May 2025, and the charges relate to his efforts to transfer \u00a3200,000 on the same day in breach of the asset freeze imposed upon him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ormerod&#8217;s UK listing <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/69a5a6e846e50eda5c46b59a\/Sanctions_Notice__Russia__2_March_2026.pdf\">had been lifted<\/a> on 2 March 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s National Crime Agency has published a press release confirming that it has charged John Michael Ormerod with two counts of breaches the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions as well as a money laundering offence. Ormerod was designated by the UK on 20 May 2025, and the charges relate to his efforts to transfer \u00a3200,000 on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/04\/20\/united-kingdom-former-designated-person-charged-with-breaching-his-asset-freeze-under-russian-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; former designated person charged with breaching his asset freeze under Russian sanctions&#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":[20,18,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","tag-united-kingdom"],"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\/1206","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=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}