Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Switzerland
has adopted sanctions similar to those of other Western
countries, passing new measures earlier this month.
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said in an
email to Reuters that the effective implementation of sanctions
was a government priority and that it had opened 56 violations
proceedings to date.
Of those, around half have been dropped and penalties have been
ordered for 15 of them. The others remain under investigation,
it said.
SECO did not name the sectors involved, nor the individual
companies subject to investigation.
Switzerland said earlier this year it had set up a specialist
team to investigate and enforce sanctions that Bern imposed
following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; additional reporting by Oliver Hirt in
Zurich, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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