{"id":441,"date":"2024-02-13T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=441"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:24:22","slug":"switzerland-seco-refers-two-cases-of-breaching-russian-sanctions-for-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/02\/13\/switzerland-seco-refers-two-cases-of-breaching-russian-sanctions-for-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland &#8211; SECO refers two cases of breaching Russian sanctions for prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/multinational-companies\/swiss-prosecutors-reportedly-probing-russia-sanctions-breaches\/72527163\"> reported today<\/a> that Switzerland&#8217;s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has referred two of its investigations into commodity trading companies to the Attorney General&#8217;s Office for criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>A third, allegedly similar, case is still being investigated and has not been referred.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the allegations relate to the attempt to use of foreign subsidiaries to undertake trade in breach of the relevant Swiss sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported today that Switzerland&#8217;s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has referred two of its investigations into commodity trading companies to the Attorney General&#8217;s Office for criminal prosecution. A third, allegedly similar, case is still being investigated and has not been referred. It is reported that the allegations relate to the attempt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/02\/13\/switzerland-seco-refers-two-cases-of-breaching-russian-sanctions-for-prosecution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Switzerland &#8211; SECO refers two cases of breaching Russian sanctions for prosecution&#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":[18,38],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-russia","tag-switzerland"],"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\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}