{"id":1377,"date":"2026-10-07T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:27:24","slug":"germany-public-prosecutor-investigates-berlins-russia-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/10\/07\/germany-public-prosecutor-investigates-berlins-russia-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; Public Prosecutor investigates Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Russia House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/24\/germany-investigation-by-berlin-prosecutor-into-russian-house\/\">our earlier post<\/a> from 2024, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/politik\/Russisches-Haus-in-Berlin-Staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-wegen-moeglicher-Sanktionsverstoesse-id31378265.html\">now being reported<\/a> that the Berlin Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is investigating possible breaches of the EU Russian sanctions relating to the now-closed &#8216;Russia House&#8217; in Berlin which for many years had served as a cultural centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is quoted as responding to query by stating that there are &#8220;<em>ongoing investigations against unknown persons or tenants of the Russian House for violations of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post from 2024, it is now being reported that the Berlin Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is investigating possible breaches of the EU Russian sanctions relating to the now-closed &#8216;Russia House&#8217; in Berlin which for many years had served as a cultural centre. The Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is quoted as responding to query by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/10\/07\/germany-public-prosecutor-investigates-berlins-russia-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; Public Prosecutor investigates Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Russia House&#8221;&#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":[20,25,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-germany","tag-russia"],"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\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}