{"id":949,"date":"2025-07-01T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=949"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:22:19","slug":"united-kingdom-individual-charged-with-providing-funding-to-sanctioned-donetsk-luhansk-militias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/01\/united-kingdom-individual-charged-with-providing-funding-to-sanctioned-donetsk-luhansk-militias\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; individual charged with providing funding to sanctioned Donetsk\/Luhansk militias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-man-court-charged-with-sending-crypto-russian-separatists-2025-07-01\/\">reported by <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>(and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ainvest.com\/news\/russian-british-national-charged-4-000-cryptocurrency-sanctions-breach-2507\/\">others<\/a>) that a UK-Russian dual national, Mikhail Vlasov, has today appeared in court in London charged with 8 counts of breaching the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that Mr Vlasov sent cryptocurrency (valued at \u00a34,000) to separatist militias in Russian-occupied Ukraine that are designated persons under the UK&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second criminal prosecution under the UK&#8217;s post-2022 Russian sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported by Reuters, (and others) that a UK-Russian dual national, Mikhail Vlasov, has today appeared in court in London charged with 8 counts of breaching the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions. It is alleged that Mr Vlasov sent cryptocurrency (valued at \u00a34,000) to separatist militias in Russian-occupied Ukraine that are designated persons under the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/01\/united-kingdom-individual-charged-with-providing-funding-to-sanctioned-donetsk-luhansk-militias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; individual charged with providing funding to sanctioned Donetsk\/Luhansk militias&#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":[20,18,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia","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\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}