{"id":947,"date":"2025-06-30T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=947"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:11:28","slug":"united-kingdom-prosecution-for-exports-of-military-goods-to-iran-libya-south-sudan-sudan-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/30\/united-kingdom-prosecution-for-exports-of-military-goods-to-iran-libya-south-sudan-sudan-and-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; prosecution for exports of military goods to Iran, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As first reported by <em>Global Investigations Review<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/globalinvestigationsreview.com\/just-sanctions\/article\/businessmen-deny-wrongdoing-in-rare-uk-arms-export-case?utm_source=NEW%253A%2BBusinessmen%2Bdeny%2Bwrongdoing%2Bin%2Brare%2BUK%2Barms%2Bexport%2Bcase&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GIR%2BJust%2BSanctions\">behind a paywall<\/a>), the UK is prosecuting two individuals for the suspected export of military goods to a range of countries including Iran, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defendants David Greenhalgh, 67, and Christos Farmakis, 47, pled not guilty to 17 charges at Southwark Crown Crown on 13 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exports are said to have taken place between 2009 and 2016, with the prosecution underscoring the absence of limitation periods in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As stated by <em>GIR<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The defendants allegedly helped ship fighter jets, radar systems, missiles and ammunition to Libya; \u201cbattle tanks and associated spare parts\u201d, AK-47 rifles, anti-tank missiles and ammunition to South Sudan; missiles, launchers and rocket-propelled grenades to Syria; and Pechora S-125 surface-to-air missile systems, radar equipment and MiG-29, Su-25 and Su-27 fighter jets to Sudan. &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmakis is further accused of being involved in the illicit supply of 5,500 AK-47 rifles and 100,000 tonnes of ammunition to Syria, as well as 25,000 pistols to an unnamed country and unspecified quantities of AK-47 rifles to South Sudan and Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenhalgh is separately accused of helping to export Mi-24V attack helicopters to Sudan&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trial has been set for April 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As first reported by Global Investigations Review (behind a paywall), the UK is prosecuting two individuals for the suspected export of military goods to a range of countries including Iran, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria. The defendants David Greenhalgh, 67, and Christos Farmakis, 47, pled not guilty to 17 charges at Southwark Crown Crown &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/30\/united-kingdom-prosecution-for-exports-of-military-goods-to-iran-libya-south-sudan-sudan-and-syria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; prosecution for exports of military goods to Iran, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria&#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":[14,43,67,15,99,89,24,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-export-controls","tag-iran","tag-libya","tag-military-goods","tag-south-sudan","tag-sudan","tag-syria","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}