Latvia continues to support Ukraine strongly, condemns Russia’s aggression and full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and in the current geopolitical climate will appeal in the Aven and Fridman cases, says a statement from the Justice Ministry.
By filing an appeal, Latvia will ask the CJEU to overturn the judgments and not to lift the sanctions originally imposed against the two businessmen.
The Latvian Justice Ministry argues that when the sanctions were adopted, both Aven and Fridman had preliminary evidence of active material or financial support to Russian…
