{"id":536,"date":"2024-04-10T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=536"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:16:52","slug":"lithuania-customs-department-launches-investigation-into-exports-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/10\/lithuania-customs-department-launches-investigation-into-exports-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; Customs Department launches investigation into exports to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/en\/news-in-english\/19\/2245820\/kaunas-mayor-s-company-exported-dual-use-goods-to-russia-lrt-investigation\">press reporting<\/a> into allegations that the Vici\u016bnai Group of companies were exporting sanctioned goods to Russia, it is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/en\/politics\/customs-to-investigate-viciunai-group-for-violation-of-sanctions-96316405\">being reported<\/a> that the Lithuanian Customs Department has commenced a pre-trial investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations include that dual use and &#8220;battlefield&#8221; goods were being exported to a factory in Kaliningrad operated by a related company.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the company has confirmed the fact of the exports, but claims that it was not aware that the goods in question (which includes ball bearings, semi-conductors, electrical components and other goods) were subject to sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following press reporting into allegations that the Vici\u016bnai Group of companies were exporting sanctioned goods to Russia, it is now being reported that the Lithuanian Customs Department has commenced a pre-trial investigation. The allegations include that dual use and &#8220;battlefield&#8221; goods were being exported to a factory in Kaliningrad operated by a related company. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/10\/lithuania-customs-department-launches-investigation-into-exports-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; Customs Department launches investigation into exports to Russia&#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],"tags":[13,27,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-dual-use-goods","tag-lithuania","tag-russia","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}