{"id":962,"date":"2025-07-15T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=962"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:11:39","slug":"greece-investigation-into-alleged-imports-of-sanctioned-russian-birch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/15\/greece-investigation-into-alleged-imports-of-sanctioned-russian-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece &#8211; investigation into alleged imports of sanctioned Russian birch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NGO Earthsight has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthsight.org.uk\/news\/council-must-act-blood-birch\"> published an article<\/a> on its website stating that in January this year it tipped off the Greek authorities to a shipment of allegedly sanctioned Russian birch plywood coming from the company Tianma Lvjian known to &#8220;launder&#8221; Russian birch plywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earthsight adds that it has now &#8220;<em>learned that Customs authorities in Greece have detained it and several other shipments from the same supplier. Investigations are ongoing<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Russian birch plywood has been the subject of numerous enforcement actions, this is are rare example of a sanctions investigation in Greece reaching the public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NGO Earthsight has published an article on its website stating that in January this year it tipped off the Greek authorities to a shipment of allegedly sanctioned Russian birch plywood coming from the company Tianma Lvjian known to &#8220;launder&#8221; Russian birch plywood. Earthsight adds that it has now &#8220;learned that Customs authorities in Greece &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/15\/greece-investigation-into-alleged-imports-of-sanctioned-russian-birch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greece &#8211; investigation into alleged imports of sanctioned Russian birch&#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":[55,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-greece","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\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}