{"id":415,"date":"2024-01-18T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=415"},"modified":"2024-01-18T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:09:20","slug":"latvia-importer-referred-to-criminal-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/01\/18\/latvia-importer-referred-to-criminal-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; importer referred to criminal authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/economy\/economy\/18.01.2024-ltv-reports-russian-goods-in-state-procurement-system.a539371\/\">reported today<\/a> that the Latvian National Regional Development Agency (the &#8220;VRAA&#8221;) has referred the Latvian company LLC Lanekss to the criminal authorities for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations arise out of LLC Lanekss being a seller of products on Latvia&#8217;s electronic public procurement sale platform &#8211; the EIS.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian state broadcaster (LTV) purchased tea through the EIS which when delivered was stated to have been manufactured in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>As article 5k of EU regulation 833\/2014 prohibits the award of a contract within the scope of the EU&#8217;s Public Procurement legislation to a Russian company or individual, or a company more than 50% owned by a Russian company or individual,\u00a0 the VRAA has referred the case to law enforcement for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported today that the Latvian National Regional Development Agency (the &#8220;VRAA&#8221;) has referred the Latvian company LLC Lanekss to the criminal authorities for investigation. The allegations arise out of LLC Lanekss being a seller of products on Latvia&#8217;s electronic public procurement sale platform &#8211; the EIS. The Latvian state broadcaster (LTV) purchased &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/01\/18\/latvia-importer-referred-to-criminal-authorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; importer referred to criminal authorities&#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":[79,80],"tags":[30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-latvia","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","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\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}