{"id":707,"date":"2024-09-18T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=707"},"modified":"2024-09-18T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T11:36:07","slug":"lithuania-seizure-of-fire-trucks-exported-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/09\/18\/lithuania-seizure-of-fire-trucks-exported-from-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; seizure of fire trucks exported from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimlive.com\/lithuania-seizes-belarus-shipment-of-fire-trucks-to-zimbabwe-over-sanctions\/\">reported in the Zimbabwe press<\/a> that 17 fire trucks purchased by the government of Zimbabwe from a supplier in Belarus were seized in March 2023 by the Lithuanian authorities on suspicion of the export and\/or sale of the fire trucks breaching the EU&#8217;s Belarus sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also being reported that diplomatic efforts by Zimbabwe to secure the release of the trucks have so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report further states that the trucks are said to contain components manufactured by an entity included as a designated person under the Belarus sanctions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While an investigation remains ongoing into the transshipment of the fire trucks to Zimbabwe via Lithuania  it is unclear on what basis the fire trucks remain detained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported in the Zimbabwe press that 17 fire trucks purchased by the government of Zimbabwe from a supplier in Belarus were seized in March 2023 by the Lithuanian authorities on suspicion of the export and\/or sale of the fire trucks breaching the EU&#8217;s Belarus sanctions. It is also being reported that diplomatic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/09\/18\/lithuania-seizure-of-fire-trucks-exported-from-belarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; seizure of fire trucks exported from Belarus&#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":[65,20,27],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","tag-belarus","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-lithuania"],"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\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}