{"id":216,"date":"2019-04-03T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=216"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:01:58","slug":"germany-three-managers-of-arms-company-sentenced-for-unlicensed-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/04\/03\/germany-three-managers-of-arms-company-sentenced-for-unlicensed-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; company fined \u20ac11 million and three managers sentenced for unlicensed exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three managers of Sig Sauer, the arms manufacturer have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/sig-sauer-german-gun-maker-execs-strike-court-deal-over-illegal-sales\/a-48189995\">been convicted<\/a> (after guilty pleas) of the unlicensed export of small arms to Colombia. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2018\/04\/12\/germany-company-managers-charged-over-suspected-weapons-exports\/\">earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One manager was fined \u20ac600,000 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. Another was fined given a 10-month suspended sentence and also fined \u20ac600,000. A third was fined \u20ac60,000 and given a 10-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The company itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/nh-news\/2019-04-03\/sig-sauer-ceo-avoids-jail-time-for-role-in-illegal-arms-shipment#stream\/0\">was fined<\/a> \u20ac11 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three managers of Sig Sauer, the arms manufacturer have been convicted (after guilty pleas) of the unlicensed export of small arms to Colombia. See our earlier post. One manager was fined \u20ac600,000 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. Another was fined given a 10-month suspended sentence and also fined \u20ac600,000. A third was fined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/04\/03\/germany-three-managers-of-arms-company-sentenced-for-unlicensed-exports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; company fined \u20ac11 million and three managers sentenced for unlicensed exports&#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":[74],"tags":[37,14,12,25,15],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-export-controls","tag-fine","tag-germany","tag-military-goods"],"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\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}