{"id":511,"date":"2022-10-10T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=511"},"modified":"2024-03-19T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:09:42","slug":"latvia-confiscation-of-4m-as-part-of-investigation-of-un-sanctions-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2022\/10\/10\/latvia-confiscation-of-4m-as-part-of-investigation-of-un-sanctions-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; confiscation of $4m as part of investigation of UN sanctions breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2019\/11\/15\/latvia-raids-and-arrests-for-arms-sales-in-breach-of-un-sanctions\/\">our earlier post<\/a>, the Latvian VDD is investigating arms sales to an unnamed African country allegedly in breach of UN sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that investigation the VDD has <a href=\"https:\/\/vdd.gov.lv\/en\/news\/press-releases\/vdd-confiscates-illegally-obtained-4-million-dollars-for-the-benefit-of-the-latvian-state\">today announced<\/a> the confiscation of $4m uncovered in an offshore account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post, the Latvian VDD is investigating arms sales to an unnamed African country allegedly in breach of UN sanctions. As part of that investigation the VDD has today announced the confiscation of $4m uncovered in an offshore account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[14,12,30,15],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-77","tag-export-controls","tag-fine","tag-latvia","tag-military-goods"],"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\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}