{"id":506,"date":"2023-01-05T07:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=506"},"modified":"2024-03-19T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:34:05","slug":"latvia-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-providing-economic-resources-to-designated-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/01\/05\/latvia-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-providing-economic-resources-to-designated-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; man arrested on suspicion of providing economic resources to designated person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia&#8217;s Intelligence Services (<a href=\"https:\/\/vdd.gov.lv\/en\/news\/press-releases\/vdd-detains-latvian-citizen-for-cooperation-with-kremlin-propaganda-resource-subjected-to-sanctions\">the VDD) have arrested<\/a> a Latvian national, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russias-sputnik-editor-arrested-latvia-marat-kasem\/\">reported as<\/a> Marat Kasem.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offence is the provision of &#8220;economic resources&#8221; to a designated person, or an asset owned or controlled by such a person.<\/p>\n<p>The designated person is Dmitry Kiselev, who is the Director General of Rossiya Segodnya which in turn owns a number of broadcast channels including Sputnik and Baltnews.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kasem is alleged to have provided the &#8220;economic resources&#8221; by way of being employed by these channels in Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia&#8217;s Intelligence Services (the VDD) have arrested a Latvian national, reported as Marat Kasem. The alleged offence is the provision of &#8220;economic resources&#8221; to a designated person, or an asset owned or controlled by such a person. The designated person is Dmitry Kiselev, who is the Director General of Rossiya Segodnya which in turn owns &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/01\/05\/latvia-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-providing-economic-resources-to-designated-person\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; man arrested on suspicion of providing economic resources to designated person&#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":[78,72],"tags":[20,30,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-latvia","tag-russia"],"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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}