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\n\tBritish national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK\u2019s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022.<\/p>\n
\n\tHornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four artworks to Russia in February 2024, according to His Majesty\u2019s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Government officials seized the shipment, which was linked to Hornsby\u2019s businesses, Global Customs Systems UK Limited and In Time Worldwide Express Limited, at Heathrow Airport. He pleaded guilty to the charges at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 1.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis conviction shows the consequences of breaching Russia sanctions that we can and do investigate,\u201d Edwige Hill, a deputy director\u202fin\u202fHMRC\u2019s\u202ffraud investigation service, said in a statement to ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cNon-compliance\u202fwith\u202fRussia sanctions is a serious offence and together with\u202four\u202finternational partners,\u202fthe\u202fUK\u202fgovernment has implemented the most severe package of sanctions ever imposed on a major economy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHornby was issued a fine of \u00a330,085 ($40,242).<\/p>\n \n\tThe UK put in place a slate of sanctions against Russia in March 2022, including a ban on exports to Russia of luxury goods such as luxury vehicles, high-end fashion, and artworks, as well as steep import tariffs on items like vodka, art, and antiques. The government said the ban was meant to \u201cmake sure oligarchs and other members of the elite\u2026 are deprived of access to luxury goods,\u201d as NPR reported at the time.<\/p>\n \n\tThat initiative came shortly after the UK announced sanctions on seven of Russia\u2019s wealthiest oligarchs, including some with significant art collections, such as Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/english-national-first-convicted-violating-russia-sanctions-1234791248\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/russian-icon-st-Vladimir.jpg?w=1024″] British national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK\u2019s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022. Hornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2034352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}