In a judgement handed down on Wednesday 20 March (case T-743/22), the General Court of the European Union annulled the European sanctions against Nikita Mazepin, the son of Russian businessman Dmitry Mazepin.
Mr Mazepin’s son challenged the sanctions imposed on him by the EU in March 2022 and renewed in September 2022, March and September 2023. According to the Council of the EU, Dmitry Mazepin, who heads the Uralchem group active in fertiliser production and is himself sanctioned by the...