A now divorced couple from Russia owns apartments in Munich, the sale of which is prohibited by European Union sanctions. A court case will soon clarify whether the real estate assets were rightly frozen.
The Foreign Trade Act (AWG) led a shadowy existence in the criminal justice system for many years – there were simply almost no EU or United Nations (UN) requirements that anyone could have violated. That changed with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014: the EU passed Regulation 269/2014; It consists of twelve pages of legal text and an appendix of more than 600 pages, which now lists 1,584 people and 249 institutions against which the EU member states have imposed sanctions.