{"id":438,"date":"2024-02-09T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=438"},"modified":"2024-03-19T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:28:35","slug":"latvia-further-sanctions-enforcement-statistics-including-seven-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/02\/09\/latvia-further-sanctions-enforcement-statistics-including-seven-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; further sanctions enforcement statistics including seven convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian authorities have provided a further update to their enforcement efforts. <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.lsm.lv\/article\/economy\/economy\/09.02.2024-few-sanctions-breach-cases-reach-court-in-latvia.a542323\/\">As reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>281 sanctions-related suspicious activity reports in 2022<\/li>\n<li>510 sanctions-related suspicious activity reports in 2023<\/li>\n<li>310 criminal cases commenced<\/li>\n<li>22 prosecutions in which the trial has started<\/li>\n<li>7 convictions to date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the convictions, all involved guilty pleas and all involved Latvian nationals. The highest penalty related to the export of a luxury car, and the fine was \u20ac170,000.<\/p>\n<p>The conduct prosecuted included in relation to the sale of a professional footballer to a club owned by a company designated under Belarus sanctions, and the provision of content to the Russian Federal News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: It has now (18 March 2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/en\/news-in-english\/19\/2226517\/sputnik-editor-admits-his-mission-was-to-destabilise-lithuania\">been reported<\/a> that the fine imposed in relation to providing economic resources to the Russian news agency in the form of employment services, was \u20ac15,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian authorities have provided a further update to their enforcement efforts. As reported: 281 sanctions-related suspicious activity reports in 2022 510 sanctions-related suspicious activity reports in 2023 310 criminal cases commenced 22 prosecutions in which the trial has started 7 convictions to date. Of the convictions, all involved guilty pleas and all involved Latvian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/02\/09\/latvia-further-sanctions-enforcement-statistics-including-seven-convictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; further sanctions enforcement statistics including seven convictions&#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],"tags":[65,20,12,30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-belarus","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-fine","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}