Law promulgated by Nicușor Dan. What prison sentences are provided for violating international sanctions

Violation of international sanctions, such as not complying with the freezing of financial funds or continuing transactions with a country targeted by said penalties, constitutes a crime and can be punished with imprisonment from one to five years.

The law was promulgated on Friday, December 12, by President Nicușor Dan.

According to Agerpres, the law considers the following acts to be crimes:

• making available to a person, an entity or a designated body or for their benefit, funds or economic resources, directly or indirectly, if this violates a prohibition that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• non-compliance with the obligation to freeze the funds or economic resources belonging to a person, entity or designated body or that are owned or under the control of such a person, entity or designated body or are owned by them, if this violates an obligation that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• allowing a designated person to enter or transit Romania, if this violates a ban that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• carrying out transactions or continuing transactions with a third country, with bodies of a third country or with entities or bodies owned or controlled directly or indirectly by a third country or bodies of a third country, including awarding or continuing the execution of public procurement contracts or concession contracts, if the prohibition or restriction of that behavior constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• the marketing, import, export, sale, purchase, transfer, transit or transportation of goods, as well as the provision of brokerage services, technical assistance or other services related to these goods, if the prohibition or restriction of the respective behavior constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• the provision of financial services or the conduct of financial activities, if the prohibition or restriction of that behavior constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• the provision of services other than those mentioned in letter f), if the prohibition or restriction of the respective behavior constitutes an international sanction of the European Union;
• evading an international sanction of the European Union by using, transferring to a third person funds or economic resources, or disposing in any other way of funds or economic resources that, directly or indirectly, are owned, owned or under the control of a person, entity or designated body, which are to be frozen under an international sanction of the European Union, with the aim of disguising funds or economic resources;
• evading an international European Union sanction by providing false or misleading information in order to disguise that a designated person, entity or body is the owner or ultimate beneficiary of funds or economic resources to be frozen pursuant to an international European Union sanction;
• evasion of an international sanction of the European Union by non-compliance by a natural person or by a representative of an entity or a designated body of an obligation that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union, to inform the competent administrative authorities about the funds or economic resources under Romania's jurisdiction, are owned, owned or under its control;
• evading an international sanction of the European Union by failing to comply with an obligation that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union to provide the competent administrative authorities with information regarding the frozen funds or economic resources or information held regarding the funds or economic resources located on the national territory or of a member state of the European Union, which belong to, are owned by, are owned by or are under the control of designated persons, entities or bodies and which have not been frozen, when that information has been obtained in the exercise of service duties;
• violation or non-fulfillment of the conditions provided for in the authorizations granted by the competent administrative authorities for carrying out activities which, in the absence of such authorization, represent a violation of a prohibition or restriction that constitutes an international sanction of the European Union.