{"id":321,"date":"2023-12-05T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=321"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:08:35","slug":"belgium-raids-and-arrests-for-russian-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/12\/05\/belgium-raids-and-arrests-for-russian-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium &#8211; raids and arrests for Russian sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/business\/articles\/2023-12-05\/6-held-in-belgium-and-the-netherlands-on-suspicion-of-links-to-russia-sanction-violations\">reported today<\/a> that the Belgian authorities, after a tip-off from unnamed US &#8220;agencies&#8221; have conducted searches at homes and business addresses in Knokke-Heist and Eeklo.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/media\/1327261\/dl?inline\">announcement is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related search and arrests took place in the Netherlands (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/12\/05\/netherlands-arrests-and-raids-regarding-russian-sanctions\/\">see our related post<\/a>) at the same time, and in total across both countries six have been arrested, four of whom were arrested in Belgium<\/p>\n<p>The allegations relate to the export of products and technology to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported today that the Belgian authorities, after a tip-off from unnamed US &#8220;agencies&#8221; have conducted searches at homes and business addresses in Knokke-Heist and Eeklo. The Belgian government announcement is here. Related search and arrests took place in the Netherlands (see our related post) at the same time, and in total across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/12\/05\/belgium-raids-and-arrests-for-russian-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belgium &#8211; raids and arrests for Russian sanctions&#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":[78,72],"tags":[36,13,14,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-belgium","tag-dual-use-goods","tag-export-controls","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}