It has been reported that police in Oslo are investigating a company called Romarine AS, as well as four individuals (two Norwegians, a Russian and a Bulgarian)...

Polish prosecutors have registered nearly 2,500 sanctions cases as of mid-2026, with 85% targeting Belarus and at least 91 criminal proceedings specifically focused on wood-processing products.

Poland’s National Tax Administration has fined a company based in Małopolska and run by Belarusian citizens PLN 20,000,000 – or approximately €4,726,000.

Poland's National Tax Administration has imposed a substantial fine of PLN 20 million on an entrepreneur for violating EU sanctions against Russia. The case involves the export of high-value vehicles to Russia during a six-month period in 2023, representing a significant breach of luxury goods export prohibitions.

Polish authorities have uncovered a sophisticated smuggling operation involving sanctioned goods being exported to Belarus through falsified documentation and customs corruption.

Poland's Agency for Internal Security has charged two individuals with illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia through Turkey, violating EU sanctions. The suspects allegedly purchased CNC machine tools and thermal chambers in Germany, routing them through Poland before attempting shipment to Russia via Turkey. Both individuals face potential sentences of at least three years and asset confiscation.

It is being reported that the Portuguese authorities have commenced an investigation into possible sanctions breaches by the football team Benfica.

It is being reported that the Portuguese Public Prosecutor's Office has opened 26 criminal investigations into possible Russian sanctions breaches since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

It is being reported (originally here behind a paywall, and here) that Portugal’s Tax and Customs Authority currently has ongoing investigations into possible breaches and/or circumvention of the EU’s Russian sanctions.

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.

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.