{"id":932,"date":"2025-05-28T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=932"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:03:22","slug":"latvia-sanctions-investigation-launched-into-activities-of-russian-state-funder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/05\/28\/latvia-sanctions-investigation-launched-into-activities-of-russian-state-funder\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; sanctions investigation launched into activities of Russian state funder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltictimes.com\/security_service_looking_into_cases_involving_money_from_russian_foundation_sanctioned_by_eu\/\">is being reported<\/a> that the Latvia State Security Service has launched an investigation into the activities of the sanctioned entity &#8220;Pravfond&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pravfond is said to be a funding conduit by which the Russian state provides support for promoting Russia&#8217;s influence and interests abroad. It was designated under the EU&#8217;s Russian sanctioned in mid 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The allegation is that it has continued to operate and provide funding despite being subject to the asset freeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that the Latvia State Security Service has launched an investigation into the activities of the sanctioned entity &#8220;Pravfond&#8221;. Pravfond is said to be a funding conduit by which the Russian state provides support for promoting Russia&#8217;s influence and interests abroad. It was designated under the EU&#8217;s Russian sanctioned in mid 2023. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/05\/28\/latvia-sanctions-investigation-launched-into-activities-of-russian-state-funder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; sanctions investigation launched into activities of Russian state funder&#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":[20,30,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-latvia","tag-russia"],"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","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}