{"id":1339,"date":"2026-09-03T06:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:18:31","slug":"latvia-customs-confiscates-e15m-in-sanctioned-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/09\/03\/latvia-customs-confiscates-e15m-in-sanctioned-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; Customs confiscates \u20ac15m in sanctioned goods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/latvia-cracks-down-on-smuggling-at-russian-border\/video-78459940\">broadcast news story<\/a> has provided data on the enforcement activity of Latvia&#8217;s Customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story reports that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>roughly twice a week a shipment of sanctioned goods to Russia is stopped;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>30 cargoes of military goods have been stopped; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customs have confiscated \u20ac15m in sanctioned goods through its work at inspections at checkpoints, of which roughly \u20ac3m has so far been sold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new story does not state over what period the confiscations took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A broadcast news story has provided data on the enforcement activity of Latvia&#8217;s Customs. The story reports that: The new story does not state over what period the confiscations took place.<\/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":[14,12,30,15,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-fine","tag-latvia","tag-military-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\/1339","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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}