{"id":972,"date":"2025-08-04T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:25:02","slug":"germany-and-bulgaria-raids-at-german-manufacturer-with-three-charged-with-sanctions-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/04\/germany-and-bulgaria-raids-at-german-manufacturer-with-three-charged-with-sanctions-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and Bulgaria &#8211; raids at German manufacturer with three charged with sanctions offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiz.bayern.de\/gerichte-und-behoerden\/staatsanwaltschaft\/muenchen-1\/presse\/2025\/4.php\">Last week<\/a> more than 140 officers from the Munich Customs Investigation Office and the Munich I Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office conducted raids on several premises in Munich and Baden W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subject of the raids was a machine tool manufacturer suspected of exporting 20 machines valued at more than \u20ac5.5m to Russia in breach of the EU&#8217;s sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/wirtschaft\/muenchen-maschinenbauer-spinner-durchsuchung-russland-eu-sanktionen-li.3291861\">been reported<\/a> that the company was Spinner GmbH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has also now <a href=\"https:\/\/biz.liga.net\/en\/all\/all\/novosti\/german-company-suspected-of-supplying-machine-tools-to-russia-for-eur-55-million\">been reported<\/a> that three individuals have been charged with sanctions offences. They have not been named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The press release from the Munich Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office also stated that the Bulgarian authorities conducted contemporaneous raids at premises in Bulgaria with support and coordination from Eurojust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week more than 140 officers from the Munich Customs Investigation Office and the Munich I Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office conducted raids on several premises in Munich and Baden W\u00fcrttemberg. The subject of the raids was a machine tool manufacturer suspected of exporting 20 machines valued at more than \u20ac5.5m to Russia in breach of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/04\/germany-and-bulgaria-raids-at-german-manufacturer-with-three-charged-with-sanctions-offences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany and Bulgaria &#8211; raids at German manufacturer with three charged with 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":[40,25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-bulgaria","tag-germany","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","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}