{"id":943,"date":"2025-06-30T03:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=943"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:15:17","slug":"finland-customs-investigation-into-suspected-electronics-exports-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/30\/finland-customs-investigation-into-suspected-electronics-exports-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland &#8211; Customs investigation into suspected electronics exports to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/tulli.fi\/-\/tulli-tutkii-torkeaa-saannostelyrikosta-itasuomalainen-yhtio-myynyt-komponentteja-venajalle\">Thursday Finland&#8217;s Customs announced<\/a> details of an ongoing investigation into a suspected aggravated offence of breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions. This is the most serious category of offence under Finnish law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customs are investigating a company from eastern Finland alleged to have sold electronic parts and components (semiconductors, microchips, processors and connectors) to Russia valued at approximately \u20ac2.7m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two main suspects are a father and son, with the son currently serving in the Russian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The products are alleged to have been shipped via several different routes including via other EU countries, Hong Kong, direct to Russia, and others seemingly collected in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tax investigation is also under way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to 2022 the company&#8217;s business is said to have been dedicated to tourism and the sale of art.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday Finland&#8217;s Customs announced details of an ongoing investigation into a suspected aggravated offence of breaching the EU&#8217;s sanctions. This is the most serious category of offence under Finnish law. Customs are investigating a company from eastern Finland alleged to have sold electronic parts and components (semiconductors, microchips, processors and connectors) to Russia valued &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/30\/finland-customs-investigation-into-suspected-electronics-exports-to-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finland &#8211; Customs investigation into suspected electronics exports 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":[95,72],"tags":[29,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-technology-and-telecom","tag-finland","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\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}