{"id":917,"date":"2025-04-25T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=917"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:19:30","slug":"lithuania-olaf-and-lithuanian-customs-raid-company-suspected-of-sanctions-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/04\/25\/lithuania-olaf-and-lithuanian-customs-raid-company-suspected-of-sanctions-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; OLAF and Lithuanian Customs raid company suspected of sanctions breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/anti-fraud.ec.europa.eu\/media-corner\/news\/olaf-intelligence-supports-lithuanian-customs-major-sanctions-evasion-probe-2025-04-24_en?prefLang=fr\">press release<\/a> reporting on a joint operation with Lithuanian Customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a joint investigation officers from both bodies took part in a raid in the Vilnius region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigated conduct is said to involve the shipment of sanctioned goods to Russia through Central Asian countries. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lrmuitine.lt\/web\/guest\/naujienos\/aktualijos\/aktualija?p_p_id=EXT_WPLISTALLNEWS&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;_EXT_WPLISTALLNEWS_obj_id=090004d280211a2a\">Lithuanian Customs press release<\/a>, the raised company was said to be providing &#8220;transport, logistics and forwarding services&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanctioned goods valued at approximately \u20ac1.5 million, weapons and cash were seized as part of the raid. Four individuals were arrested as part of the raid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has issued a press release reporting on a joint operation with Lithuanian Customs. After a joint investigation officers from both bodies took part in a raid in the Vilnius region. The investigated conduct is said to involve the shipment of sanctioned goods to Russia through Central Asian countries. According to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/04\/25\/lithuania-olaf-and-lithuanian-customs-raid-company-suspected-of-sanctions-breaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; OLAF and Lithuanian Customs raid company suspected of 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":[2],"tags":[27,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lithuania","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\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}