{"id":791,"date":"2024-11-25T06:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:08:54","slug":"germany-three-individuals-in-custody-for-exporting-nearly-100-cars-to-russia-in-breach-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/11\/25\/germany-three-individuals-in-custody-for-exporting-nearly-100-cars-to-russia-in-breach-of-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; three individuals in custody for exporting nearly 100 cars to Russia in breach of sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-online.de\/region\/stuttgart\/id_100536628\/russland-sanktionen-umgangen-drei-autohaendler-in-haft.html\">is being reported<\/a> that the Mannheim Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has three people in custody on suspicion of exporting luxury cars to Russia in breach of EU sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A car manufacturer made a suspicious activity report regarding the exporter, which led to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three individuals are a married couple who run two car dealerships and a third person who was an employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that they exported nearly 100 cars to Russia via third countries with a total value of nearly \u20ac15 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the raids, the prosecutors also secured the freezing of \u20ac1.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Customs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoll.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/DE\/Sonstiges\/2024\/y46_luxusfahrzeuge_zfas.html\">press release is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that the Mannheim Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has three people in custody on suspicion of exporting luxury cars to Russia in breach of EU sanctions. A car manufacturer made a suspicious activity report regarding the exporter, which led to the investigation. The three individuals are a married couple who run two car &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/11\/25\/germany-three-individuals-in-custody-for-exporting-nearly-100-cars-to-russia-in-breach-of-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; three individuals in custody for exporting nearly 100 cars to Russia in breach of sanctions&#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":[79,80,70],"tags":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-consumer-products-and-services","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-germany","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\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}