{"id":505,"date":"2024-03-15T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=505"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:08:10","slug":"european-sanctions-enforcement-the-last-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/03\/15\/european-sanctions-enforcement-the-last-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"European sanctions enforcement: the last two months"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog has been live now for just over two months.<\/p>\n

During that time and by way of recap, a number of states have provided updated enforcement statistics in that period (Finland<\/a>, Switzerland<\/a>, Latvia<\/a>), but the period has also seen a significant volume of new enforcement activity:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

New investigations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n
      \n
    1. the UK’s FCA is investigating banks<\/a> in relation to possible sanctions compliance breaches<\/li>\n
    2. Moldova is investigating<\/a> the sale of aircraft parts to Russia;<\/li>\n
    3. Latvian authorities are investigating<\/a> possible unlawful imports of Belarus timber in relation to Belarus timber;<\/li>\n
    4. Latvia is also investigating<\/a> a possible breach of the public procurement prohibition re Russian goods;<\/li>\n
    5. an ongoing BaFin investigation<\/a> into a bank;<\/li>\n
    6. Danish investigation<\/a> into the import of Russian-origin fuel from India; and<\/li>\n
    7. four Irish investigations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      New arrests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. \n
          \n
        1. three arrested<\/a> in the Netherlands on suspicion of dual-use exports to Russia; and<\/li>\n
        2. three arrested<\/a> in Germany for luxury car exports.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          New charges<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. \n
              \n
            1. the UK’s National Crime Agency has brought seven charges<\/a> against an individual;<\/li>\n
            2. three referrals for prosecution in Switzerland (here<\/a> and here<\/a>);<\/li>\n
            3. two charged<\/a> in Germany relating to drone exports;<\/li>\n
            4. five charged<\/a> in Finland with alleged drone exports including two companies<\/li>\n
            5. ongoing prosecution<\/a> in Germany for alleged import of Belarus timber.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              New convictions or fines imposed<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. \n
                  \n
                1. a tenth fine<\/a> imposed by SECO in Switzerland;<\/li>\n
                2. the Dutch National Bank fined a bank<\/a> nearly \u20ac1.2m in Netherlands;<\/li>\n
                3. a fine imposed<\/a> in Lithuania;<\/li>\n
                4. a fine imposed<\/a> in Latvia;<\/li>\n
                5. a conviction<\/a> in Finland related to drone exports;<\/li>\n
                6. Finland secured a conviction<\/a> for breach of the travel ban on designated; persons; and<\/li>\n
                7. confiscation<\/a> of a luxury villa in France.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  This blog has been live now for just over two months. During that time and by way of recap, a number of states have provided updated enforcement statistics in that period (Finland, Switzerland, Latvia), but the period has also seen a significant volume of new enforcement activity:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,71,70,72],"tags":[65,35,13,20,12,29,48,25,43,86,30,27,15,31,18,38,34,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-consumer-products-and-services","category-financial-services","category-infrastructure-and-transport","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-belarus","tag-denmark","tag-dual-use-goods","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-fine","tag-finland","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-military-goods","tag-netherlands","tag-russia","tag-switzerland","tag-trade-sanctions","tag-united-kingdom"],"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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}