{"id":1323,"date":"2026-08-27T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:33:10","slug":"germany-lengthy-jail-terms-for-machinery-exports-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/27\/germany-lengthy-jail-terms-for-machinery-exports-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; lengthy jail terms for machinery exports to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/02\/germany-mid-trial-guilty-pleas-for-two-charged-with-65-equipment-shipments-to-russia\/\">our earlier post<\/a>, relating to two brothers pleading guilty to sanctions offences mid-trial, the court in Germany <a href=\"https:\/\/dpa-international.com\/economics\/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260826-930-584556\/\">has now sentenced<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/news\/2026-08\/26\/illegal-nach-russland-exportiert-brueder-verurteilt\">here in German<\/a>) the pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The younger brother was sentenced to 4 years and one month, and the elder brother to 3 years and 10 months. This was part of a plea deal in which, according to reports, admissions were also made in relation to offences that did not form part of the prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The convictions relate to 65 exports to Russia via, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan, of a total of \u20ac833,000 worth of engineering equipment and machinery used in weapons manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post, relating to two brothers pleading guilty to sanctions offences mid-trial, the court in Germany has now sentenced (and here in German) the pair. The younger brother was sentenced to 4 years and one month, and the elder brother to 3 years and 10 months. This was part of a plea &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/08\/27\/germany-lengthy-jail-terms-for-machinery-exports-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; lengthy jail terms for machinery exports 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":[37,25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-germany","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\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}