{"id":677,"date":"2024-07-23T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=677"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:54:15","slug":"uk-two-law-firms-reported-to-ofsi-by-legal-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/23\/uk-two-law-firms-reported-to-ofsi-by-legal-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8211; two law firms reported to OFSI by legal regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalfutures.co.uk\/latest-news\/sra-reports-two-law-firms-to-treasury-for-breaching-russia-sanctions\">being reported<\/a> that two law firms have been reported by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to the UK\u2019s OFSI.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the law firms were facilitating financial transactions valued at more than \u00a3300,000. It is unclear whether the conduct relates to designated persons, trade sanctions, or the UK\u2019s prohibitions on Russian investment.<\/p>\n<p>The attention on law firms chimes with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daserste.de\/information\/politik-weltgeschehen\/report-mainz\/swr-recherche-unit\/Russland-Sanktionen-104.html\">report yesterday<\/a> that there has been an investigation in Germany relating to a potential breach of the EU\u2019s prohibitions on legal advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that two law firms have been reported by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to the UK\u2019s OFSI. It is alleged that the law firms were facilitating financial transactions valued at more than \u00a3300,000. It is unclear whether the conduct relates to designated persons, trade sanctions, or the UK\u2019s prohibitions on Russian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/07\/23\/uk-two-law-firms-reported-to-ofsi-by-legal-regulator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK &#8211; two law firms reported to OFSI by legal regulator&#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":[20,18,34,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions","tag-united-kingdom"],"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\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}