{"id":1222,"date":"2026-05-06T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:23:34","slug":"netherlands-confiscation-orders-issued-against-company-and-individual-convicted-in-2024-of-sanctions-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/06\/netherlands-confiscation-orders-issued-against-company-and-individual-convicted-in-2024-of-sanctions-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands &#8211; confiscation orders issued against company and individual convicted in 2024 of sanctions offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/10\/08\/netherlands-company-convicted-and-fined-for-aircraft-part-exports\/\">an earlier pos<\/a>t relating to convictions of an individual and company obtained in October 2024 for supplying aircraft parts to Russian customers in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions, the Rotterdam Court has now ruled in the confiscation proceedings brought by the prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBROT:2026:3876&amp;showbutton=true&amp;keyword=sanctiewet&amp;idx=1\">confiscation judgement<\/a> against the (unnamed) company, the court ordered the confiscation of \u20ac165,826.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court held that the revenue obtained from the sanctions breaches was \u20ac2,901,194, but allowed as &#8220;deductible costs&#8221; 82% of this amount, or \u20ac2,385,739. This is in line with the Dutch approach of allowing the convicted parties to break even on the unlawful transactions by confiscating not the illegally-obtained revenue (which the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/09\/11\/romania-cjeu-upholds-confiscation-of-entire-revenue-of-a-transaction-in-breach-of-sanctions\/\">CJEU has held is a permissible approach<\/a>), but rather the pure profit element. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The profit element was accordingly assessed as \u20ac515,455 which was divided between the convicted person and the convicted company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBROT:2026:3879&amp;showbutton=true&amp;keyword=sanctiewet&amp;idx=2\">second confiscation judgment<\/a> against the individual, the same analysis was undertaken with the balance of \u20ac349,629 from the profits attributed to the individual. The judgment states that a further 599 days of jail time would be added to the existing sentence in the event that the confiscation order is not satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to an earlier post relating to convictions of an individual and company obtained in October 2024 for supplying aircraft parts to Russian customers in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions, the Rotterdam Court has now ruled in the confiscation proceedings brought by the prosecution. In the confiscation judgement against the (unnamed) company, the court ordered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/06\/netherlands-confiscation-orders-issued-against-company-and-individual-convicted-in-2024-of-sanctions-offences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netherlands &#8211; confiscation orders issued against company and individual convicted in 2024 of sanctions offences&#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":[12,31,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-fine","tag-netherlands","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\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}