{"id":539,"date":"2024-04-11T07:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=539"},"modified":"2024-04-11T07:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:28:55","slug":"latvia-investigation-into-bunkering-vessel-refueling-russian-shadow-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/11\/latvia-investigation-into-bunkering-vessel-refueling-russian-shadow-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; investigation into bunkering vessel refueling Russian &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vessel owned by a Latvian company is providing bunkering (i.e. refueling) services to the Russian &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; in the Baltic sea off the coast of Gotland in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Latvian Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/lettland-vi-kommer-att-utreda-fartyget-utanfor-gotland\">has stated<\/a> that an investigation is now underway to see if the Latvian company is breaching or circumventing EU sanctions, in particular whether the fuel being supplied is of Russian origin.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian company, Fastbunkering, denies breaching sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that just two days ago the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skippo.se\/nyheter\/ryska-skuggflottan-tankar-utanfor-gotland-en-tickande-miljobomb\">Swedish authorities were reported as having closed an investigation into<\/a>\u00a0these same possible breaches of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>A Swedish prosecutor was reported as having stated: &#8220;<em>I have made the assessment that it is not worth requesting legal aid from Latvia because it is not expected to lead to a higher penalty than a fine<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vessel owned by a Latvian company is providing bunkering (i.e. refueling) services to the Russian &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; in the Baltic sea off the coast of Gotland in Sweden. A spokesman for the Latvian Foreign Ministry has stated that an investigation is now underway to see if the Latvian company is breaching or circumventing EU &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/11\/latvia-investigation-into-bunkering-vessel-refueling-russian-shadow-fleet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; investigation into bunkering vessel refueling Russian &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;&#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],"tags":[30,18,87,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-latvia","tag-russia","tag-sweden","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}