{"id":703,"date":"2024-09-12T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=703"},"modified":"2024-09-12T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:37:21","slug":"netherlands-conviction-for-breach-of-isis-sanctions-upheld-by-court-of-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/09\/12\/netherlands-conviction-for-breach-of-isis-sanctions-upheld-by-court-of-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands &#8211; conviction for breach of ISIS sanctions upheld by Court of Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Court of Appeal in the Hague <a href=\"https:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/details?id=ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2024:1568&amp;showbutton=true&amp;keyword=Sanctiewet&amp;idx=10\">issued judgment<\/a> on an appeal against a conviction for multiple terrorism-related offences including one of making funds or economic resources available to a person designated under the EU&#8217;s ISIS sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The transfers were of \u20ac200 and \u20ac300 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The conviction was upheld on the basis that the necessary criminal intent was present:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>In order to prove that the regulations have been deliberately violated, it is\u00a0<span class=\"emphasis\">not<\/span>\u00a0necessary to prove that there was intent to violate the standards set out in the indictment. The intent is colorless.\u00a0\u00a0However, it must be proved that the defendant intended that the sums of money would end up directly or indirectly with [person 1] and [person 2], to whom the Terrorism Sanctions Regulations 2007-II applied at the time<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The total sentence was for a custodial prison term of 48 months, but it is not possible to identify what proportion of that was for the sanctions offence and what proportion for the other non-sanctions convictions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Court of Appeal in the Hague issued judgment on an appeal against a conviction for multiple terrorism-related offences including one of making funds or economic resources available to a person designated under the EU&#8217;s ISIS sanctions. The transfers were of \u20ac200 and \u20ac300 respectively. The conviction was upheld on the basis that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/09\/12\/netherlands-conviction-for-breach-of-isis-sanctions-upheld-by-court-of-appeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netherlands &#8211; conviction for breach of ISIS sanctions upheld by Court of Appeal&#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":[79,2],"tags":[37,20,47,31],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-general","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-isis","tag-netherlands"],"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\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}