Mondaq: A Finnish court sentences a CEO to 3+ years and orders €6.6M in confiscations for illegally exporting trucks to Russia in breach of EU sanctions through false transit declarations

The vehicles were falsely declared as being in transit to countries like Kazakhstan or Türkiye, but investigators found they were actually delivered to Russia, violating EU sanctions imposed after the Ukraine war. The court also ruled that the company must forfeit profits and assets linked to the scheme, and noted that the case forms part of wider Finnish enforcement efforts targeting sanctions evasion through trade misrepresentation..