{"id":839,"date":"2025-01-23T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=839"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:57:41","slug":"germany-raids-and-arrests-of-suspected-exporters-of-luxury-cars-to-russia-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/01\/23\/germany-raids-and-arrests-of-suspected-exporters-of-luxury-cars-to-russia-and-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; raids and arrests of suspected exporters of luxury cars to Russia and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swr.de\/swraktuell\/rheinland-pfalz\/ludwigshafen\/zoll-beschlagnahmt-geld-und-teure-autos-im-raum-schifferstadt-100.html\">being reported<\/a> that on 16 January raids were carried out at six addresses in Ludwigshafen, Schifferstadt and Mannheim and a 53-year old was arrested on suspicion of exporting over 150 luxury cars to Russia and Belarus valued at more than \u20ac7,500,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cash and cars valued at more than \u20ac500,000 were seized and accounts frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same article reports on another case from November 2024 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swr.de\/swraktuell\/rheinland-pfalz\/ludwigshafen\/rhein-pfalz-kreis-autohaendlerin-soll-luxusautos-nach-russland-verkauft-haben-100.html\">also reported here<\/a>), in which a 26-year old was arrested and detained on suspicion of exporting 30 luxury cars to Russia valued at around \u20ac3,500,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Customs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presseportal.de\/blaulicht\/pm\/116258\/5954242\">press release is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that on 16 January raids were carried out at six addresses in Ludwigshafen, Schifferstadt and Mannheim and a 53-year old was arrested on suspicion of exporting over 150 luxury cars to Russia and Belarus valued at more than \u20ac7,500,000. Cash and cars valued at more than \u20ac500,000 were seized and accounts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/01\/23\/germany-raids-and-arrests-of-suspected-exporters-of-luxury-cars-to-russia-and-belarus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; raids and arrests of suspected exporters of luxury cars to Russia and 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":[79,95,80],"tags":[65,25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-95","category-consumer-products-and-services","tag-belarus","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}