{"id":934,"date":"2025-06-03T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=934"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:54:06","slug":"latvia-61-new-criminal-prosecutions-for-sanctions-breaches-commenced-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/03\/latvia-61-new-criminal-prosecutions-for-sanctions-breaches-commenced-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia &#8211; 61 new criminal prosecutions for sanctions breaches commenced in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/04\/24\/latvia-updated-sanctions-enforcement-statistics\/\">a previous post from April<\/a> we reported on the 2024 annual report for Latvia&#8217;s FIU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This included the statistic that 392 criminal proceedings had been commenced between 2022 and the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview recently published with <em>Global Investigations Review<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/globalinvestigationsreview.com\/just-sanctions\/article\/inside-latvian-efforts-fight-sanctions-circumvention?utm_source=Inside%2BLatvian%2Befforts%2Bto%2Bfight%2Bsanctions%2Bcircumvention&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GIR%2BAlerts\">behind a paywall<\/a>), the head of Latvia&#8217;s National Customs Board has stated that Latvia has now brought a total of 453 criminal prosecutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This indicates that 61 new prosecutions have been brought so far in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post from April we reported on the 2024 annual report for Latvia&#8217;s FIU. This included the statistic that 392 criminal proceedings had been commenced between 2022 and the end of 2024. In an interview recently published with Global Investigations Review (behind a paywall), the head of Latvia&#8217;s National Customs Board has stated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/03\/latvia-61-new-criminal-prosecutions-for-sanctions-breaches-commenced-in-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latvia &#8211; 61 new criminal prosecutions for sanctions breaches commenced in 2025&#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":[20,30,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-latvia","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","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\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}