Company fined €329,944 by Lithuanian customs for buying sanctioned Russian goods

Lithuanian customs fined a Lithuanian company €329,944 euros for purchasing items from Russian firms subject to international restrictions.

Source: Delfi, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The appropriate protocol for the company, whose name is not revealed, was released on Tuesday. The Lithuanian Customs Service says such a step was implemented for the first time.

It should be highlighted that the Lithuanian-registered firm imported commodities from the Russian enterprises Nizhnekamsktekhuglerod and Nizhnekamskneftekhim, which are subject to sanctions.

Lithuania's Seimas (the parliament – ed.) recently extended national sanctions against Russian and Belarusian citizens for a year, rejecting proposals to tighten existing restrictions.

The Lithuanian government proposed in February that restrictive measures for Russians and Belarusians be extended for another year, since Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022, continues, and the reasons for the law's approval last year remain unchanged.

At the same time, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda wants the fourteenth round of sanctions against Russia to cover the state-owned Rosatom, as well as aluminium and more Russian banks.

Last year, the Lithuanian Customs Service declared that it had totally eradicated imports of Russian and Belarusian timber and forest products, bypassing sanctions imposed by Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

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