{"id":218,"date":"2021-07-13T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=218"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:18:20","slug":"germany-e11-million-fine-for-unlicensed-exports-upheld-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2021\/07\/13\/germany-e11-million-fine-for-unlicensed-exports-upheld-on-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; \u20ac11 million confiscation for unlicensed exports upheld on appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Federal Court of Justice<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/04\/03\/germany-three-managers-of-arms-company-sentenced-for-unlicensed-exports\/\"> has upheld the confiscation<\/a> of \u20ac11 million imposed on Sig Sauer for unlicensed exports of small arms to Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/04\/03\/germany-three-managers-of-arms-company-sentenced-for-unlicensed-exports\/\">earlier post<\/a>, for the original fine from 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The exports were made as part fulfilment of a contract by the US government to supply weapons to the Colombian police, but the necessary export licences were not obtained from the German authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment <a href=\"https:\/\/openjur.de\/u\/2364604.html\">is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Federal Court of Justice has upheld the confiscation of \u20ac11 million imposed on Sig Sauer for unlicensed exports of small arms to Colombia. See our earlier post, for the original fine from 2019. The exports were made as part fulfilment of a contract by the US government to supply weapons to the Colombian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2021\/07\/13\/germany-e11-million-fine-for-unlicensed-exports-upheld-on-appeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; \u20ac11 million confiscation for unlicensed exports upheld on appeal&#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":[76],"tags":[14,12,25,15],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-76","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}