{"id":229,"date":"2021-03-30T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=229"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:34:58","slug":"germany-earlier-convictions-for-illegal-arms-exports-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2021\/03\/30\/germany-earlier-convictions-for-illegal-arms-exports-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; earlier convictions for illegal arms exports upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/02\/21\/germany-company-fined-e3-7-million-for-illegal-arms-exports\/\">earlier post<\/a>, the German Federal Court of Justice has today upheld an earlier conviction of two individuals and a company for unlawful exports of assault rifles to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The company, Heckler &amp; Koch, had appealed the earlier judgment and the confiscation of its gross profits from the sales. The two convicted individuals had also appealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/court-heckler-koch-must-pay-for-illegal-arms-sales-to-mexico\/a-57047654\">has upheld<\/a> the earlier judgment finding that the company had falsified export licence applications to mask the final destination for the weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to an earlier post, the German Federal Court of Justice has today upheld an earlier conviction of two individuals and a company for unlawful exports of assault rifles to Mexico. The company, Heckler &amp; Koch, had appealed the earlier judgment and the confiscation of its gross profits from the sales. The two convicted individuals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2021\/03\/30\/germany-earlier-convictions-for-illegal-arms-exports-upheld\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; earlier convictions for illegal arms exports upheld&#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":[14,25,15],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-76","tag-export-controls","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\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}