{"id":1314,"date":"2026-08-24T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:55:24","slug":"austria-two-convicted-for-exporting-sanctioned-machinery-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/24\/austria-two-convicted-for-exporting-sanctioned-machinery-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria &#8211; two convicted for exporting sanctioned machinery to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/11\/austria-suspected-exports-of-military-manufacturing-equipment-lead-to-raids-and-arrest\/\">our previous post<\/a>, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalbankingandfinance.com\/austrian-court-convicts-belarusians-over-supplying-russian\/\">now being reported<\/a> that the Austrian investigation into suspected exports of CNC machines has ended in two criminal convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 28 year old was the director and shareholder in the Vienna-based company involved. He received a 21 month sentence of which 19 months were suspended. He was released upon his conviction having already served more than two months in detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second defendant was a 24-year old who dealt with the company&#8217;s accounts and was also a shareholder. She was given a 15-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both had pleaded guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reporting makes no mention of a financial fine, or of any confiscation of the proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our previous post, it is now being reported that the Austrian investigation into suspected exports of CNC machines has ended in two criminal convictions. A 28 year old was the director and shareholder in the Vienna-based company involved. He received a 21 month sentence of which 19 months were suspended. He was released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/24\/austria-two-convicted-for-exporting-sanctioned-machinery-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Austria &#8211; two convicted for exporting sanctioned machinery to Russia&#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":[104,2],"tags":[44,37,13,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-austria","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-dual-use-goods","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\/1314","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=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}