{"id":569,"date":"2024-04-29T03:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=569"},"modified":"2024-04-29T03:57:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:57:14","slug":"lithuania-investigation-commenced-into-alleged-exports-to-belarus-via-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/29\/lithuania-investigation-commenced-into-alleged-exports-to-belarus-via-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; investigation commenced into alleged exports to Belarus via Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following prominent reporting in Lithuania (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/en\/politics\/company-owned-by-the-vegele-family-might-have-circumvented-eu-sanctions-journalistic-investigation-claims-96412525\">here<\/a>), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/daily\/18687-lithuania-inspecting-company-suspected-of-viola\">Lithuanian Customs Department has confirmed<\/a> that it has commenced an investigation into the alleged activities of the company UAB Vilpra.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the company exported nearly \u20ac1m in air conditioning units to Belarus via Kyrgyzstan in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The company is reported to deny the allegations and to have stated that it complies with all sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following prominent reporting in Lithuania (e.g. here), the Lithuanian Customs Department has confirmed that it has commenced an investigation into the alleged activities of the company UAB Vilpra. It is alleged that the company exported nearly \u20ac1m in air conditioning units to Belarus via Kyrgyzstan in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions. The company is reported &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/04\/29\/lithuania-investigation-commenced-into-alleged-exports-to-belarus-via-kazakhstan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; investigation commenced into alleged exports to Belarus via Kazakhstan&#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":[79,80],"tags":[65,27,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-belarus","tag-lithuania","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\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}