{"id":1224,"date":"2026-05-08T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:58:10","slug":"latvia-sanctions-enforcement-data-from-customs-for-the-first-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/05\/08\/latvia-sanctions-enforcement-data-from-customs-for-the-first-quarter-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; sanctions enforcement data from Customs for the first quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vid.gov.lv\/lv\/jaunums\/vid-muitas-parvalde-pirmaja-ceturksni-noversa-303-sankciju-parkapumus\">Latvia&#8217;s Customs Service published data<\/a> on its sanctions enforcement actions for the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>161 shipments destined for prohibited export to Russia and Belarus were stopped;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>26 shipments intended for prohibited import from Russia and Belarus were stopped; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>43 attempts to export cash to Russia were prevented;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>42 cases of violation by individuals using the postal service;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>29 administrative proceedings were commenced for violations of sanctions; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18 cases were referred to initiate criminal prosecutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Latvia&#8217;s Customs Service published data on its sanctions enforcement actions for the first quarter of 2026. This includes:<\/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":[65,30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-belarus","tag-latvia","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\/1224","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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}