{"id":1360,"date":"2026-09-15T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:52:43","slug":"finland-investigation-into-suspected-exports-of-nearly-e6m-in-sanctioned-goods-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/09\/15\/finland-investigation-into-suspected-exports-of-nearly-e6m-in-sanctioned-goods-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland &#8211; investigation into suspected exports of nearly \u20ac6m in sanctioned goods to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finland&#8217;s Customs has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/tulli.fi\/en\/-\/preliminary-investigation-into-suspected-aggravated-regulation-offence-ongoing-goods-worth-millions-of-euros-exported-to-russia\">press release<\/a> relating to the latter stages of an investigation into suspected exports to Russia of nearly \u20ac6m in &#8220;hydraulic pumps and motors as well as various valves&#8221; in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exports were declared as destined for Kazakhstan and T\u00fcrkiye, but are alleged to have been exported to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two individuals are the suspects with the offences treated as aggravated offences. One of the suspects is also said to be the subject of four other criminal matters pending in the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The press release note that the case will be forwarded to prosecutors by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s Customs has issued a press release relating to the latter stages of an investigation into suspected exports to Russia of nearly \u20ac6m in &#8220;hydraulic pumps and motors as well as various valves&#8221; in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. The exports were declared as destined for Kazakhstan and T\u00fcrkiye, but are alleged to have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/09\/15\/finland-investigation-into-suspected-exports-of-nearly-e6m-in-sanctioned-goods-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finland &#8211; investigation into suspected exports of nearly \u20ac6m in sanctioned goods 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":[14,29,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-finland","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\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}