Eleven people were detained in Lithuania on suspicion of supplying equipment to Russia's oil industry in violation of sanctions.
On August 23, the Lithuanian Customs Service's Criminal Investigation Department announced that it had detained 11 people suspected of circumventing sanctions against Russia. According to the department, these individuals organized the supply of water treatment equipment to Russia, which was subsequently used by enterprises in the oil industry.
The organizers of the supply activity were a company based in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, whose name was not disclosed. On August 12, law enforcement officers searched the company's office and detained 11 people, including company employees and two drivers from Moldova and Bulgaria respectively. In addition, the police seized two trucks: one loaded with equipment in Kaunas and another en route to the border between Lithuania and Poland.
The department pointed out that, on the surface, the orderer and consignee of this batch of goods were a Portuguese company, but the goods were actually transported to Bulgaria, then transferred to Turkey, and finally entered Russia from Turkey. The equipment was assembled from components produced in China and the European Union. Law enforcement also searched the fake receiving office in Portugal and the product warehouse in Bulgaria.
The people detained in Lithuania have been released after interrogation, with two of them being subjected to restrictions, requiring them to sign a guarantee not to leave the local area.
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