{"id":623,"date":"2024-06-03T05:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=623"},"modified":"2024-06-03T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:48:50","slug":"sweden-companies-called-to-foreign-ministry-to-explain-possible-circumvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/06\/03\/sweden-companies-called-to-foreign-ministry-to-explain-possible-circumvention\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; companies called to Foreign Ministry to explain possible circumvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.dn.se\/sverige\/svenska-storbolag-uppkallade-till-ud-kan-ha-rundat-ryska-sanktioner\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTNjYyMjQ2MDAwNTI0NzcyNTMyMTIaYTc4YmY5YTU4YTkwMTA1YTpjb206c3Y6VVM&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PkNPOfc9FrtT-Gez4D903\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/svenska-foretag-kallas-upp-till-ud-efter-larm-fran-eu-kommissionen\">here<\/a>) that a number of large Swedish companies have been called to the Foreign Ministry to attend a meeting also attended by a number of other authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting concerned information received by Sweden from the European Commission about exports to Russia which may have been in breach of, or circumvented, the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The companies called to attend the meeting included Atlas Copco, Ericsson, Volvo, SKF and Sandvik.<\/p>\n<p>The companies deny breaches of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish authorities are now considering what further action to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported (e.g. here and here) that a number of large Swedish companies have been called to the Foreign Ministry to attend a meeting also attended by a number of other authorities. The meeting concerned information received by Sweden from the European Commission about exports to Russia which may have been in breach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/06\/03\/sweden-companies-called-to-foreign-ministry-to-explain-possible-circumvention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; companies called to Foreign Ministry to explain possible circumvention&#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":[18,87,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-infrastructure-and-transport","category-technology-and-telecom","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\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}