{"id":524,"date":"2024-03-29T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=524"},"modified":"2024-03-29T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:55:02","slug":"latvia-arrest-on-suspicion-of-breaching-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/03\/29\/latvia-arrest-on-suspicion-of-breaching-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; arrest on suspicion of breaching US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/latvian-broker-arrested-allegedly-smuggling-advanced-us-aircraft-technology-russia#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20superseding%20indictment,in%20other%20countries%20that%20operate\">issued a press release<\/a> confirming that the Latvian authorities have arrested a 55-year old, Oleg Chistyakov.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with multiple counts of breaching US sanctions and other offences as part of an alleged wider conspiracy with two other also-charged individuals to supply avionics materials to Russia in breach of US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested near Riga on 19 March pending proceedings for extradition to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice has issued a press release confirming that the Latvian authorities have arrested a 55-year old, Oleg Chistyakov. He has been charged with multiple counts of breaching US sanctions and other offences as part of an alleged wider conspiracy with two other also-charged individuals to supply avionics materials to Russia in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/03\/29\/latvia-arrest-on-suspicion-of-breaching-us-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; arrest on suspicion of breaching US sanctions&#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":[79,70,72],"tags":[30,18,34,63],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-infrastructure-and-transport","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-latvia","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions","tag-us-extradition"],"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\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}