{"id":922,"date":"2025-05-08T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:05:38","slug":"united-kingdom-ofsi-imposes-5000-fine-for-refusing-to-respond-to-information-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/05\/08\/united-kingdom-ofsi-imposes-5000-fine-for-refusing-to-respond-to-information-request\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; OFSI imposes \u00a35,000 fine for refusing to respond to information request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK&#8217;s OFSI has announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/681c69ff3f1c73824ee3e56e\/Publication_Notice_-_Svarog.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">\u00a35,000 monetary penalty<\/a> imposed on Svarog Shipping &amp; Trading Company Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fine was for failing to respond to an information request from OFSI in breach of regulation 74(1)(a) of the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions regulation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Penalty Notice states that the request for information was made in the context of a wider &#8220;large and complex investigation into suspected breaches&#8221; of the UK&#8217;s sanctions in relation to Sovcomflot. That investigation is, presumably, ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s OFSI has announced a \u00a35,000 monetary penalty imposed on Svarog Shipping &amp; Trading Company Limited. The fine was for failing to respond to an information request from OFSI in breach of regulation 74(1)(a) of the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions regulation. The Penalty Notice states that the request for information was made in the context &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/05\/08\/united-kingdom-ofsi-imposes-5000-fine-for-refusing-to-respond-to-information-request\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; OFSI imposes \u00a35,000 fine for refusing to respond to information request&#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":[95,70],"tags":[20,12,18,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-fine","tag-russia","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}