{"id":1284,"date":"2026-07-06T05:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:38:30","slug":"france-guilty-plea-for-tagor-tanker-owner-leads-to-e1m-fine-and-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/06\/france-guilty-plea-for-tagor-tanker-owner-leads-to-e1m-fine-and-release\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; guilty plea for Tagor tanker owner leads to \u20ac1m fine and release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/06\/01\/france-seizure-of-sanctioned-oil-tanker-the-tagor\/\">earlier post<\/a> regarding the detention by the French authorities of the oil sanctioned shadow fleet tanker, the Tagor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connaissancedesenergies.org\/afp\/flotte-fantome-russe-amende-dun-million-deuros-pour-le-petrolier-arraisonne-dans-latlantique-260702\">on 2 July<\/a>, the company owning the vessel pleaded guilty in a Brest court to failing to be flagged and a refusal to comply with an order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company was fined, and paid, a fine of \u20ac1m. Upon payment the vessel was released and the is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vesselfinder.com\/vessels\/details\/9282481\">now sailing<\/a> for Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/03\/09\/round-up-of-sanctions-related-european-vessel-seizures\/\">European Vessel Seizure Tracker<\/a> has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post regarding the detention by the French authorities of the oil sanctioned shadow fleet tanker, the Tagor, on 2 July, the company owning the vessel pleaded guilty in a Brest court to failing to be flagged and a refusal to comply with an order. The company was fined, and paid, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/06\/france-guilty-plea-for-tagor-tanker-owner-leads-to-e1m-fine-and-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France &#8211; guilty plea for Tagor tanker owner leads to \u20ac1m fine and release&#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":[12,48,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-fine","tag-france","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\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}