{"id":663,"date":"2024-07-15T04:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=663"},"modified":"2024-07-15T04:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:37:53","slug":"czechia-conviction-fine-and-confiscation-for-export-of-luxury-cars-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/15\/czechia-conviction-fine-and-confiscation-for-export-of-luxury-cars-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia &#8211; conviction, fine and confiscation for export of luxury cars to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/ruski.radio.cz\/v-chehii-vpervye-osudili-mestnogo-zhitelya-za-narushenie-antirossiyskih-sankciy-8822704\">being reported <\/a>(and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-crime\/3885143-czech-court-hands-down-first-verdict-for-violating-russia-sanctions.html\">here<\/a>) that the Czech authorities have obtained a conviction of Vladimir Lihutin, a Czech national, for an attempt to export three luxury cars to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>a fine of 300,000 crowns (c. \u20ac11,500)<\/li>\n<li>confiscation of \u20ac132,000 (being the sums paid by the customers for the cars)<\/li>\n<li>a ban on buying and selling any cars for 20 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first known conviction or fine imposed in Czechia for breaches of EU sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported (and here) that the Czech authorities have obtained a conviction of Vladimir Lihutin, a Czech national, for an attempt to export three luxury cars to Russia. The sentence includes: a fine of 300,000 crowns (c. \u20ac11,500) confiscation of \u20ac132,000 (being the sums paid by the customers for the cars) a ban &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/15\/czechia-conviction-fine-and-confiscation-for-export-of-luxury-cars-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Czechia &#8211; conviction, fine and confiscation for export of luxury cars 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":[79,80],"tags":[82,12,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-czechia","tag-fine","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\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}