<p>Geneva: Switzerland has opened investigations into more than 50 cases of possible sanctions violations and has found breaches in 15 of them so far, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.</p><p>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.</p>.Ukraine Prime Minister calls for fresh sanctions on Russia after Navalny's death.<p>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.</p><p>Of those, around half have been dropped and penalties have been ordered for 15 of them. The others remain under investigation, it said.</p><p>SECO did not name the sectors involved, nor the individual companies subject to investigation.</p><p>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.</p>
<p>Geneva: Switzerland has opened investigations into more than 50 cases of possible sanctions violations and has found breaches in 15 of them so far, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.</p><p>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.</p>.Ukraine Prime Minister calls for fresh sanctions on Russia after Navalny's death.<p>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.</p><p>Of those, around half have been dropped and penalties have been ordered for 15 of them. The others remain under investigation, it said.</p><p>SECO did not name the sectors involved, nor the individual companies subject to investigation.</p><p>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.</p>