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Romanian authorities are investigating a company and its managers for allegedly circumventing EU sanctions by routing machine tools worth millions through multiple countries. The sophisticated export scheme involved transporting dual-use goods through Germany, Austria, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, with Belarus as the suspected final destination.

Further to our earlier post from February 2025, regarding the Spanish authorities seizure of 13,000 tons of prohibited chemicals...

Further to our earlier post from August 2024, the Swiss authorities have provided an update on one of their ongoing criminal sanctions investigations.

After a Russian vessel had engine trouble and entered Swedish territorial waters, Swedish Customs boarded the vessel and commenced...

It is being reported that Sweden's Security Service, Säpo, conducted an operation in December involving raiding premises...

Press reporting of a civil dispute between Sweden's SEB Bank and certain Russian customers associated with Olga Pavlova...

Sweden’s Public Prosecutor has issued a press release making public raids conducted this morning at the premises of an unnamed “large company” in Sundsvall.

This was part of an investigation into suspected breaches of Switzerland's sanctions against gold trading from 2022...

A UK court dismissed sanctions charges against art gallery Hauser & Wirth and logistics company Artay Rauchweger, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove the buyer of luxury artwork was "ordinarily resident" in Russia at the time of sale. The judge determined that evidence of continuing connection to Russia was insufficient to meet the statutory test for ordinary residence under UK sanctions regulations.

Queen Mary University of London has undertaken a major International Arbitration Survey, focusing on the energy sector entitled "Future of International...

Last week marked 20 years of the horrific terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. 2017 saw the atrocious attacks at the Manchester Arena, and subsequently Fishmongers' Hall in London, and sadly there were others.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales has, in its Annual Report for Money Laundering covering 2023/2024, has stated that it has required 9 law firms to report themselves...

As first reported in Global Investigations Review (here, behind a paywall), the UK's Crown Prosecution Service has charged Hauser & Wirth...

The UK's HMRC has published a Notice to Exporters reporting on a compound penalty agreed with an unnamed UK exporter.

As an addition to the existing prosecution it is being reported that the National Crime Agency has added two new charges to those against Alexei Owsjanikow.

It is being reported, following a Freedom of Information request to HM Treasury, that the UK's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has between 1 and 5 investigations...

The UK's OFSI has announced a £5,000 monetary penalty imposed on Svarog Shipping & Trading Company Limited.