{"id":965,"date":"2025-07-22T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=965"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:31:10","slug":"estonia-lengthy-custodial-sentence-for-sanctions-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/22\/estonia-lengthy-custodial-sentence-for-sanctions-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; lengthy custodial sentence for sanctions offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Estonia&#8217;s Office of the Prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prokuratuur.ee\/uudised\/narva-elanikku-karistati-luuretegevuse-valeandmete-esitamise-ja-sanktsioonide-rikkumise\">has issued a press release<\/a> regarding an agreed settlement with Pavel Kapustin convicting him of sanctions offences as well as espionage and supplying false information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was sentenced to 6.5 years&#8217; jail and assets valued at \u20ac90,000 were confiscated. The press release does not break down the sentence by offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man took orders for luxury goods from Russian customers and arranged for their transport to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sixth custodial sentence handed down in Estonia for sanctions offences so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia&#8217;s Office of the Prosecutor has issued a press release regarding an agreed settlement with Pavel Kapustin convicting him of sanctions offences as well as espionage and supplying false information. The man was sentenced to 6.5 years&#8217; jail and assets valued at \u20ac90,000 were confiscated. The press release does not break down the sentence by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/07\/22\/estonia-lengthy-custodial-sentence-for-sanctions-offences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; lengthy custodial sentence for sanctions offences&#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":[37,50,12,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-estonia","tag-fine","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\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}