{"id":981,"date":"2025-08-25T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=981"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:15:19","slug":"estonia-prosecution-of-lawyer-for-sanctions-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/25\/estonia-prosecution-of-lawyer-for-sanctions-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; prosecution of lawyer for sanctions offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/11\/sweden-estonia-and-lithuania-investigations-opened-into-funding-provided-by-russian-designated-person\/\">our earlier post<\/a>, the Estonian authorities have decided to prosecute an Estonian lawyer for alleged breaches of sanctions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prokuratuur.ee\/uudised\/prokuratuur-esitas-advokaadile-suudistuse-rahvusvahelise-sanktsiooni-rikkumises\">Prosecutor&#8217;s Press Release<\/a> states that attorney Urmas Simon has been charged with making an economic resource available to the designated person Pravfond, in the form of legal services to a third party paid for by Pravfond. Mr Simon is also charged in relation to taking payment from the sanctioned entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier post, the Estonian authorities have decided to prosecute an Estonian lawyer for alleged breaches of sanctions. The Prosecutor&#8217;s Press Release states that attorney Urmas Simon has been charged with making an economic resource available to the designated person Pravfond, in the form of legal services to a third party paid for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/25\/estonia-prosecution-of-lawyer-for-sanctions-offences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; prosecution of lawyer 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":[50,20,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-estonia","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-russia"],"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\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}