{"id":853,"date":"2025-02-17T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=853"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:12:31","slug":"ireland-charges-of-russian-sanctions-breaches-not-pursued-following-gardai-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/02\/17\/ireland-charges-of-russian-sanctions-breaches-not-pursued-following-gardai-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland &#8211; charges of Russian sanctions breaches not pursued following Garda\u00ed investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Garda\u00ed (National Police) have confirmed to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalinvestigationsreview.com\/just-sanctions\/article\/ireland-investigated-two-potential-breaches-of-post-2022-russia-sanctions-no-charges?utm_source=KPMG%2Bhit%2Bwith%2Blion%25E2%2580%2599s%2Bshare%2Bof%2Baccounting-related%2Benforcement%2Bin%2BUK&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GIR%2BAlerts\">Global Investigations Review<\/a><\/em> that it has  referred two investigations for prosecution for alleged breaches of the EU&#8217;s sanctions imposed on Russian in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also confirmed that the Public Prosecution Service declined to being charges in both investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One such referral to the DPP <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/04\/08\/ireland-case-referred-for-criminal-prosecution-for-breach-of-russian-sanctions\/\">was reported<\/a> to have taken place in April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2024 it <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/03\/13\/ireland-four-gardai-investigations-into-russian-sanctions-breaches\/\">was reported<\/a> that the Garda\u00ed had four investigations ongoing into suspected Russian sanctions breaches, but the status of those further investigations is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Garda\u00ed (National Police) have confirmed to Global Investigations Review that it has referred two investigations for prosecution for alleged breaches of the EU&#8217;s sanctions imposed on Russian in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It was also confirmed that the Public Prosecution Service declined to being charges in both investigations. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/02\/17\/ireland-charges-of-russian-sanctions-breaches-not-pursued-following-gardai-investigations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ireland &#8211; charges of Russian sanctions breaches not pursued following Garda\u00ed investigations&#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":[95,2],"tags":[20,86,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-ireland","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\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}