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20 November 2024

European Sanctions Enforcement: The Custodial Sentences

DM
Duane Morris LLP

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Although one of the filters on this blog is "custodial sentence", I thought it might be helpful to collect all the examples in one place.
European Union International Law

Although one of the filters on this blog is "custodial sentence", I thought it might be helpful to collect all the examples in one place.

As such, here is the full list of custodial sentences that have been imposed across Europe for sanctions offences since 2017. Please note this excludes suspended sentences.

2017:

2018:

2019:

2020:

2021:

2022:

2023:

2024:

Overall the figures are dominated by the Netherlands and Germany with approximately 68 of the 80 years of sentences between them. Indeed, as the graph below demonstrates, other than Finland's 40-day sentence for breaching a travel ban, the Netherlands and Germany are the only European countries to have sent someone to prison for sanctions offences since 2019.

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