{"id":1390,"date":"2026-10-19T05:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2026-10-19T05:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:26:33","slug":"france-belarusian-couple-convicted-for-transporting-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/10\/19\/france-belarusian-couple-convicted-for-transporting-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; Belarusian couple convicted for transporting euros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It <a href=\"https:\/\/nashaniva.com\/en\/407101\">is being reported<\/a> that a Belarusian couple aged 40 and 39 have been convicted in absentia in relation to a stop of their vehicle conducted in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple were stopped upon entering France from Switzerland and were found to have had an undeclared amount of \u20ac11,925, as well as a small amount of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple sought to explain that the euros were intended for a vehicle purchase, but could provide no evidence on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the basis of the prohibitions in EU regulation 765\/2006 against exporting EU currency to a Belarus person, the physical currency was confiscated and a fine of the same amount of \u20ac11,925 was imposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that a Belarusian couple aged 40 and 39 have been convicted in absentia in relation to a stop of their vehicle conducted in August 2022. The couple were stopped upon entering France from Switzerland and were found to have had an undeclared amount of \u20ac11,925, as well as a small amount &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/10\/19\/france-belarusian-couple-convicted-for-transporting-euros\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France &#8211; Belarusian couple convicted for transporting euros&#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":[65,115,12,48,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-general","tag-belarus","tag-conviction","tag-fine","tag-france","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\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}