Customs records show middlemen are keeping high-end fashion flowing to Moscow despite sanctions
Wealthy Russians are routinely sidestepping trade curbs on luxury brands, using a cottage industry of personal shoppers, resellers and cross-border smugglers to stay in step with the best of European fashion. Instagram and the Telegram social media platform have filled with resellers catering to both large retailers and private buyers in Russia, promising a path to circumvent sanctions on expensive handbags and haute couture.
Western brands can be liable for breaches of export controls if their products appear on the Russian market, regardless of the route into the country. “In order to establish a defence you’d have to show that you didn’t know, and had no reasonable cause to suspect that the goods were ultimately destined for Russia,” said Gavin Irwin, a barrister at 2 Hare Court chambers. In some cases, the price thresholds have shaped decision-making.
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