{"id":474,"date":"2022-12-07T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=474"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:24:31","slug":"latvia-conviction-for-imports-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2022\/12\/07\/latvia-conviction-for-imports-from-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; conviction for imports from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/prokuratura.lv\/lv\/aktualitates\/2024\/aktualitates\/par-meginajumu-parkapt-eiropas-savienibas-noteiktas-sankcijas-personai-nosaka-5000-eiro-lielu-naudas-sodu-2825\">have announced<\/a> the conviction of a man on charges of importing goods from Belarus in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The goods in question were railway sleepers and 8kg of nails.<\/p>\n<p>The fine imposed was \u20ac5,000. No custodial sentence was imposed, but the man was banned from conducting any import business from Belarus for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian authorities have announced the conviction of a man on charges of importing goods from Belarus in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. The goods in question were railway sleepers and 8kg of nails. The fine imposed was \u20ac5,000. No custodial sentence was imposed, but the man was banned from conducting any import business from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2022\/12\/07\/latvia-conviction-for-imports-from-belarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; conviction for imports from Belarus&#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":[77,70],"tags":[65,12,30,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-77","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-belarus","tag-fine","tag-latvia","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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}