{"id":983,"date":"2025-08-25T03:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=983"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:53:40","slug":"lithuania-customs-raids-and-arrests-for-sanctioned-exports-in-conjunction-with-raids-in-portugal-and-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/25\/lithuania-customs-raids-and-arrests-for-sanctioned-exports-in-conjunction-with-raids-in-portugal-and-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania &#8211; Customs raids and arrests for sanctioned exports in conjunction with raids in Portugal and Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday Lithuania&#8217;s Customs <a href=\"https:\/\/lrmuitine.lt\/web\/guest\/naujienos\/aktualijos\/aktualija?p_p_id=EXT_WPLISTALLNEWS&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;_EXT_WPLISTALLNEWS_obj_id=090004d280221ae7\">issued a press release<\/a> announcing raids on a company based in Kaunas, and associated residential premises, with 11 people (employees, company managers, as well as drivers) detained and a dozen tons of equipment (valued at around \u20ac2 million) seized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is alleged the company was exporting to Russia via Bulgaria and Turkey based on a fictitious customer in Portugal. Contemporaneous raids were conducted in Bulgaria to seize a shipment that had already left Lithuania, and in Portugal at the premises of the Portuguese customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation was coordinated by Eurojust and Europol and with assistance from the Portuguese authorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exports are described as &#8220;water treatment equipment (dosing stations, large industrial water filters (osmosis), etc.) and their components (various pumps, filters, membranes)&#8221;. The press release adds that the products were specifically designed for the Russian customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday Lithuania&#8217;s Customs issued a press release announcing raids on a company based in Kaunas, and associated residential premises, with 11 people (employees, company managers, as well as drivers) detained and a dozen tons of equipment (valued at around \u20ac2 million) seized. It is alleged the company was exporting to Russia via Bulgaria and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/25\/lithuania-customs-raids-and-arrests-for-sanctioned-exports-in-conjunction-with-raids-in-portugal-and-bulgaria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lithuania &#8211; Customs raids and arrests for sanctioned exports in conjunction with raids in Portugal and Bulgaria&#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":[95,2,70],"tags":[40,27,97,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-bulgaria","tag-lithuania","tag-portugal","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\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}