{"id":1399,"date":"2026-11-02T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:50:36","slug":"estonia-customs-enforcement-statistics-for-sanctions-since-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/11\/02\/estonia-customs-enforcement-statistics-for-sanctions-since-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; Customs enforcement statistics for sanctions since 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estonia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emta.ee\/uudised\/maksu-ja-tolliamet-tegi-idapiiril-miljon-tollikontrolli-ja-avastas-ule-8000-rikkumise\">Customs body issued a press release<\/a> back in August, detailing its enforcement actions in relation to Russian and Belarusian sanctions since the start of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1.05 million customs checks of which 47,000 were trucks and vehicles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8143 violations detected averaging 13 per day, mostly relating to the attempted export of cash and\/or consumer goods.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1017 misdemeanour proceedings commenced, of which 931 have reached a decision.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The average fine across the 931 determined cases was <em>\u20ac<\/em>269, for a total of just over <em>\u20ac<\/em>250,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> 146 criminal proceedings commenced, for the more serious conduct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia&#8217;s Customs body issued a press release back in August, detailing its enforcement actions in relation to Russian and Belarusian sanctions since the start of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,80],"tags":[65,50,12,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-104","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-belarus","tag-estonia","tag-fine","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\/1399","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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}