{"id":1215,"date":"2026-05-01T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:45:29","slug":"estonia-individual-charged-and-settlement-with-a-related-company-as-part-of-russian-sanctions-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/01\/estonia-individual-charged-and-settlement-with-a-related-company-as-part-of-russian-sanctions-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; individual charged and settlement with a related company as part of Russian sanctions investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/11\/10\/estonia-arrest-and-pre-trial-detention-for-sanctioned-media-offence\/\">our earlier post<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prokuratuur.ee\/en\/news\/prosecutors-office-filed-charges-against-oleg-bessedin-committing-criminal-offence-against\">Estonian Public Prosecutor<\/a> has charged Oleg Bessedin on suspicion of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;transmitting sanctioned Russian TV programs and content via TV and social media channels controlled by him in Estonia and making the sanctioned content available to other channels as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is also charged with non-violent offences against the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the same investigation, the Prosecutor&#8217;s Office reached a settlement with an unnamed legal entity as part of which that entity made a charitable donation of \u20ac4000 to a Ukrainian support charity.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post, the Estonian Public Prosecutor has charged Oleg Bessedin on suspicion of: &#8220;transmitting sanctioned Russian TV programs and content via TV and social media channels controlled by him in Estonia and making the sanctioned content available to other channels as well&#8221;. He is also charged with non-violent offences against the independence, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/01\/estonia-individual-charged-and-settlement-with-a-related-company-as-part-of-russian-sanctions-investigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; individual charged and settlement with a related company as part of Russian 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":[104,72],"tags":[50,12,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-estonia","tag-fine","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","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}