{"id":939,"date":"2025-06-18T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:28:42","slug":"spain-arrests-and-detentions-for-the-export-of-prohibited-machinery-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/18\/spain-arrests-and-detentions-for-the-export-of-prohibited-machinery-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain &#8211; arrests and detentions for the export of prohibited machinery to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todoalicante.es\/english\/company-vicente-supplying-prohibited-20250618080640-nt.html?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\">is being reported<\/a> that as part of a joint investigation by the General Information Commissariat, the Customs Surveillance Directorate of the Tax Agency, and the National Intelligence Centre that a raid was conducted in 10 June in the town of San Vicente del Raspeig in Alicante and three individuals have been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a hearing on Friday two of the arrested were imprisoned pending investigations and the third individual has been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that an unnamed company exported machinery &#8220;<em>mainly used in mass production industries, such as the automotive metallurgical industry, the aerospace industry, or also in the military industry<\/em>&#8220;. It is alleged that the exports to Russia were conducted through third countries, that customs data was falsified, and that the end customer was a designated person under the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The machinery is reported to have been valued at hundreds of thousands of euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that as part of a joint investigation by the General Information Commissariat, the Customs Surveillance Directorate of the Tax Agency, and the National Intelligence Centre that a raid was conducted in 10 June in the town of San Vicente del Raspeig in Alicante and three individuals have been arrested. Following a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/18\/spain-arrests-and-detentions-for-the-export-of-prohibited-machinery-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spain &#8211; arrests and detentions for the export of prohibited machinery to Russia&#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":[13,18,53,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-dual-use-goods","tag-russia","tag-spain","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\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}