{"id":141,"date":"2023-03-14T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=141"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:37:02","slug":"switzerland-nearly-100-criminal-investigations-for-sanctions-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/03\/14\/switzerland-nearly-100-criminal-investigations-for-sanctions-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland &#8211; nearly 100 criminal investigations for sanctions breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss authorities have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/politics\/ukraine-war--some-100-cases-identified-for-potential-violations-of-sanctions\/48359866\">this week provided<\/a> some statistics on their ongoing sanctions enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>They have reported a total of 100 investigations. Of those:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>13 investigations have been concluded without charge;<\/li>\n<li>23 have had criminal proceedings commenced; and<\/li>\n<li>60 cases remain under investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While most of these relate to Russia, at least two relate to Belarus sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the investigations are said to relate to trade sanctions rather than financial sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss authorities have this week provided some statistics on their ongoing sanctions enforcement efforts. They have reported a total of 100 investigations. Of those: 13 investigations have been concluded without charge; 23 have had criminal proceedings commenced; and 60 cases remain under investigation. While most of these relate to Russia, at least two relate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/03\/14\/switzerland-nearly-100-criminal-investigations-for-sanctions-breaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Switzerland &#8211; nearly 100 criminal investigations for sanctions breaches&#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":[78],"tags":[65,20,18,38,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","tag-belarus","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","tag-switzerland","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}