{"id":778,"date":"2024-11-04T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:33:24","slug":"united-kingdom-9-law-firms-referred-for-investigation-for-possible-sanctions-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/11\/04\/united-kingdom-9-law-firms-referred-for-investigation-for-possible-sanctions-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; 9 law firms referred for investigation for possible sanctions breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales has, in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sra.org.uk\/sra\/research-publications\/aml-annual-report-2023-24\/#:~:text=The%20information%20in%20this%20report,2023%20to%205%20April%202024).\">Annual Report for Money Laundering covering 2023\/202<\/a>4, has stated that it has required 9 law firms to report themselves to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In eight of these instances the breach was a breach of a licence condition. It is unclear whether these were specific licences or a General Licence. The breaches are said to have varied between late or no reporting, and taking payments not actually covered by the licence in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While many may have related to the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions no information is given as to the identity of the sanctions regime(s) in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales has, in its Annual Report for Money Laundering covering 2023\/2024, has stated that it has required 9 law firms to report themselves to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. In eight of these instances the breach was a breach of a licence condition. It is unclear whether &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/11\/04\/united-kingdom-9-law-firms-referred-for-investigation-for-possible-sanctions-breaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; 9 law firms referred for investigation for possible sanctions breaches&#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":[20,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-general","tag-financial-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","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}