{"id":373,"date":"2023-04-06T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=373"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:34:47","slug":"malta-company-and-director-acquitted-of-breach-of-russian-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/04\/06\/malta-company-and-director-acquitted-of-breach-of-russian-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta &#8211; company and director acquitted of breach of Russian sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmnews.mt\/en\/news\/accountant-found-not-guilty-of-breaching-eu-sanctions-by-importing-ammunition-from-russia\/\">reported today<\/a> that a prosecution in Malta for allegedly breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions against Russia has ended in acquittal.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation commenced in 2019 after a bank submitted a suspicious activity report.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction at the heart of the case was the export of 142 pallets of ammunition from Russia to Morocco via a Maltese company; Donna Shipping Company Limited.<\/p>\n<p>The company and one of its directors, Karl David Mallia, a qualified accountant were both prosecuted, but not any of the other directors of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that there was insufficient evidence that Mallia had been involved in the particular transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported today that a prosecution in Malta for allegedly breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions against Russia has ended in acquittal. The investigation commenced in 2019 after a bank submitted a suspicious activity report. The transaction at the heart of the case was the export of 142 pallets of ammunition from Russia to Morocco &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/04\/06\/malta-company-and-director-acquitted-of-breach-of-russian-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malta &#8211; company and director acquitted of breach of 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],"tags":[66,15,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","tag-malta","tag-military-goods","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\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}