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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Derby Crown Court (Anklage: Environment Agency) €1.03m 50 % · 1 case
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) €541,128 27 % · 2 cases
- Aberdeen Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive) €169,756 8 % · 1 case
- Peterborough Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive) €152,418 7 % · 1 case
- Nottingham Crown Court (Anklage: Environment Agency) €135,610 7 % · 1 case
- Employment Tribunal €8,222 0 % · 1 case
- HM Treasury, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) €5,768 0 % · 1 case
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) – 0 % · 2 cases
- Traffic Commissioner (Western Traffic Area); Ermittlung: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) – 0 % · 1 case
- UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) – 0 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
- Environment and sustainability €1.16m 57 % · 2 cases
- Consumer protection and online retail €541,128 27 % · 2 cases
- Health and safety and employment law €322,174 16 % · 3 cases
- Whistleblower protection €8,222 0 % · 1 case
- Sanctions and export control €5,768 0 % · 1 case
- Data protection – 0 % · 2 cases
- Competition law – 0 % · 1 case
Who?
by company- East Midlands Airport Ltd €1.03m 50 % · 1 case
- Euro Car Parks Limited €541,128 27 % · 1 case
- Streamline Shipping Agencies Limited €169,756 8 % · 1 case
- Knowles Logistics Limited €152,418 7 % · 1 case
- Fletcher Plant Limited €135,610 7 % · 1 case
- Royal Mail Group Ltd €8,222 0 % · 1 case
- Svarog Shipping & Trading Company Limited €5,768 0 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies – 0 % · 2 cases
- GXO Logistics, Inc. und Wincanton Limited – 0 % · 1 case
- Post Office Limited – 0 % · 1 case
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When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | – |
| 2024 | 1 | – |
| 2025 | 7 | €1.86m |
| 2026 | 3 | €177,978 |
12 cases
16 Jul 2026 Royal Mail Group LtdTribunal: Royal Mail subjected whistleblower to detriment – £6,978 compensation €8,222
The Employment Tribunal in Manchester found that the claimant had been subjected to detriment because of a protected disclosure and awarded her the agreed amount of £6,978.20. The claims for disability discrimination and constructive dismissal were dismissed.
Large organisations, too, must ensure that whistleblowers do not suffer disadvantages in their day-to-day work.
How managers handle internal reports
- Authority / court
- Employment Tribunal
- Area of law
- Whistleblower protection · Retaliation against whistleblowers
- Legal basis
- Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 47B (Benachteiligung wegen geschützter Offenlegung)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 7 Sep 2026
Original amount 6,978.2 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Jul 2026.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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3 Jul 2026 TMA Haulage LtdTMA Haulage: operator licence curtailed from five to four vehicles, revocation from 6 October 2026 Other
Following an investigation by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), the Traffic Commissioner (regulator of commercial vehicle operators) found that the sole director of TMA Haulage Ltd had driven using the driver card of a former employee, thereby falsifying the records, three times in June and July 2025 and – after being interviewed by the DVSA – twice in April 2026; on one of those days he continued driving in this way without taking the break that was due. The operator's licence was curtailed immediately from five to four vehicles and revoked with effect from 6 October 2026. Measures against individuals are not set out here.
Driver cards are strictly personal – regularly comparing vehicle unit data with the cards of the drivers deployed uncovers misuse before the authority does.
Drivers' hours and misuse of driver cards
- Authority / court
- Traffic Commissioner (Western Traffic Area); Ermittlung: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995, ss. 26(1)(f), 27(1)(a) und (b); Road Traffic Act 1988, ss. 115, 117; Tachografen- und Lenkzeitvorschriften
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- According to the decision, points in the company's favour were: most compliance systems in place, drivers properly employed, an MOT pass rate in line with the national average, and the re-engagement of a consultant and legal representation.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 22 Jul 2026
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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22 May 2026 Streamline Shipping Agencies LimitedAberdeen port agency: £146,700 after forklift accident without traffic separation €169,756
At the Port of Aberdeen, an employee loosening a lorry curtain was struck by a reversing forklift truck and suffered multiple fractures and a degloving injury. Pedestrians and vehicles were not separated during simultaneous loading and unloading. Fine of £146,700. According to the annual accounts filed with the UK companies register for financial year 2025, the company had around 236 employees.
Loading and manoeuvring areas need firm rules on who may be where and when if forklifts and pedestrians are working at the same time.
- Authority / court
- Aberdeen Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Regulation 17(1) Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992; Section 33(1)(c) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Published
- 28 May 2026
Original amount 146,700 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 May 2026.
- Shipping company fined £146,700 after worker seriously injured by forklift truck (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Streamline Shipping Agencies Limited (SC073938) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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10 Dec 2025 Euro Car Parks LimitedCMA: GBP 473,000 fine for Euro Car Parks for ignoring an information notice €541,128
Euro Car Parks left a formal CMA information notice served in July 2025 unanswered for around three months despite repeated attempts at contact, later saying it had blocked the authority's emails as suspected fraud. The CMA did not accept this as a reasonable excuse and, in its first penalty under the new DMCCA powers, imposed a fixed penalty of GBP 473,000; the company has appealed to the High Court, and no breach of consumer law has been found. The decision is not final.
Information requests from authorities must reliably reach the right people and be answered on time – suspecting spam or fraud is no excuse.
Handling information requests from authorities
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail
- Legal basis
- Schedule 5 paragraph 16C(2) Consumer Rights Act 2015 (geändert durch den Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 13 Feb 2026
Original amount 473,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Dec 2025.
- CMA decision page: Euro Car Parks Ltd fixed penalty Enforcement database of an authority
- CMA: Final enforcement notice to Euro Car Parks Limited (10 December 2025) Decision of an authority
- CMA press release: CMA fines Euro Car Parks £473k for failure to comply with legal information notice (13 February 2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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2 Dec 2025 Post Office LimitedICO: reprimand for Post Office over publication of unredacted settlement deed Reprimand or warning
On 2 December 2025 the ICO issued a reprimand to Post Office Limited. The ICO found that on 25 April 2024 the company put the unredacted version of a settlement deed on its corporate website instead of the intended redacted one, exposing personal data of 502 postmasters who had taken part in the 2017 group litigation linked to the Horizon IT scandal. The ICO concluded that appropriate technical and organisational measures were lacking, in breach of Articles 5(1)(f), 32(1) and 32(2) UK GDPR. No fine was imposed.
- Authority / court
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 5(1)(f), 32(1) und 32(2) UK GDPR; Art. 58(2)(b) UK GDPR
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- ICO Enforcement: Post Office Limited. Enthält Informationen des Information Commissioner's Office, lizenziert unter der Open Government Licence v3.0. Enforcement database of an authority
- Reprimand: Post Office Limited (2 December 2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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24 Oct 2025 Knowles Logistics LimitedLogistics firm: fall from sugar beet conveyor – 133,000 GBP €152,418
In 2023 an employee climbed up the side of a sugar beet conveyor to clear a blockage by hand, fell and suffered broken ribs, a lung injury and liver damage. Blockages occurred several times per shift, and there was no safe system for clearing them; fine of 133,000 GBP plus 5,438 GBP in costs. According to its 2024 annual accounts, the company employed an average of 535 people.
Establish a defined, safe procedure for recurring faults – otherwise improvised work at height becomes the norm.
- Authority / court
- Peterborough Magistrates' Court (Anklage: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Section 2(1) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 250 to 999
- Published
- 30 Oct 2025
Original amount 133,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 24 Oct 2025.
- Transport company fined £133,000 after employee fell from sugar beet conveyor (HSE) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Knowles Logistics Limited (00446417) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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26 Aug 2025 GXO Logistics, Inc. und Wincanton LimitedGXO/Wincanton: supermarket warehouse logistics must be sold after takeover Order
GXO had already acquired Wincanton in April 2024; the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) imposed a hold-separate order, appointed a monitoring trustee and, in Phase 2, found a lessening of competition in dedicated warehousing services for grocery retail. Under the final undertakings, GXO committed to divest Wincanton’s business serving supermarket customers.
Anyone completing a deal before the merger review has concluded bears the risk of having to give up parts of the acquired business again.
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Enterprise Act 2002, ss. 41, 82, 90 (Final Undertakings)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- CMA case page: GXO / Wincanton merger inquiry Official register or notice
- CMA: Notice of acceptance of Final Undertakings (GXO / Wincanton), 26.08.2025 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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8 Aug 2025 Fletcher Plant LimitedWaste broker breaches duty of care in illegal dumping – 117,587 GBP incl. confiscation €135,610
Acting as a waste broker, the Sheffield company arranged in 2019/2020 for more than 1,400 tonnes of waste to be transported to an illegally operated site in Lincolnshire without continuously checking the operator's authorisations. The court imposed a fine of 80,000 GBP and a confiscation order of 37,587.13 GBP (117,587.13 GBP in total) plus 50,000 GBP in costs. According to its 2024 annual accounts, the company had an average of 104 employees.
Treat due diligence on waste contractors as an ongoing task, not a one-off: check their authorisations regularly throughout the contract.
Duty of care when engaging waste contractors
- Authority / court
- Nottingham Crown Court (Anklage: Environment Agency)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- Section 34(1)(a) und 34(6) Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Duty of Care)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- The court accepted that the company did not know the site was operating illegally; first prosecution in over 40 years, new management team
- Published
- 13 Aug 2025
Original amount 117,587.13 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Aug 2025.
- Sheffield firm pays £167,587.13 for dumping waste in Lincolnshire (Environment Agency) Press release of an authority
- Companies House: Registereintrag Fletcher Plant Limited (08466840) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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28 Jul 2025 East Midlands Airport LtdEast Midlands Airport: £892,500 fine over de-icing fluid in drainage water €1.03m
Derby Crown Court imposed three fines of £297,500 each (£892,500 in total) and £65,687.54 in costs on the operator of East Midlands Airport. In January and February 2022, surface water drainage containing residues of aircraft and runway de-icing fluid exceeded the permitted BOD limit of 15 mg/l on three occasions. The court heard that there had already been 13 permit breaches and ten written warnings since 2006.
Repeated limit breaches despite earlier warnings push the level of the penalty up significantly.
Complying with discharge limits during de-icing
- Authority / court
- Derby Crown Court (Anklage: Environment Agency)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits
- Legal basis
- Reg. 38(2) Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Repeat case
- yes
- Mitigating circumstances
- Change of management in 2022 and active engagement with the Environment Agency (as put forward by the company).
- Published
- 28 Jul 2025
Original amount 892,500 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Jul 2025.
- Environment Agency: East Midlands Airport fined £892,500 for environmental pollution (28.07.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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11 Apr 2025 Svarog Shipping & Trading Company LimitedTanker shipping company Svarog left OFSI information request unanswered €5,768
In the context of investigations into dealings with a Sovcomflot subsidiary, the fuel shipping company registered in the UK and operating from Cyprus did not respond in time to a formal information request from HM Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI); a response only came after contact via its auditors. No sanctions breach as such was found, but the information offence was.
Information requests from sanctions authorities need a clear intake channel and deadline monitoring – merely missing the deadline is already an offence.
Handling requests from authorities and deadlines
- Authority / court
- HM Treasury, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)
- Area of law
- Sanctions and export control · Breaches of sanctions and embargoes
- Legal basis
- Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, regs. 72, 74(1)(a)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Minor, indirect harm; the response was provided subsequently
- Published
- 8 May 2025
Original amount 5,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Apr 2025.
- OFSI: Imposition of Monetary Penalty – Svarog Shipping & Trading Company Limited Decision of an authority
- OFSI – Enforcement of financial sanctions (Sammlung) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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5 Mar 2024 an English port authorityICO: reprimand for port authority over a police messaging app group Reprimand or warning
The ICO issued a reprimand to an English port authority, the employer of the port's police force. According to the ICO's findings, a port police officer set up a distribution group in a messaging app on his personal mobile phone (later moved to another app), which several UK police forces and international law enforcement agencies used to tackle vehicle crime, without organisational oversight or compliance with data protection law. The ICO considered the period from May 2018 to February 2021 and found infringements of section 35(1) DPA 2018 (lawful and fair processing) and section 40 DPA 2018 (security). The reprimand is dated 5 March 2024; the ICO case page lists the case under 15 March 2024.
- Authority / court
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Section 35(1) und section 40 DPA 2018; Verwarnung nach Art. 58(2)(b) UK GDPR/Schedule 13(2)(c) DPA 2018
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- ICO, Übersicht der Durchsetzungsmaßnahmen (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 5 Mar 2026 · Direct link
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26 Jul 2023 a European low-cost airlineCAA: low-cost airline commits to passenger rights compliance and repays GBP 1.24m Other
After many complaints that the airline was not meeting its re-routing and care obligations for cancelled and delayed flights, the aviation regulator CAA took enforcement action; on 26 July 2023 the airline gave formal undertakings to change its procedures and to re-examine rejected claims for flights since March 2022. According to the CAA, more than 25,000 claims were subsequently reassessed and GBP 1.24m in total was paid to passengers in around 6,000 cases.
Routinely assessing legitimate refund claims too narrowly risks being pushed by the regulator to reopen all past cases.
Air passenger rights and handling of refund claims
- Authority / court
- UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail
- Legal basis
- Part 8 Enterprise Act 2002 (Undertakings); Verordnung (EG) Nr. 261/2004 in der im Vereinigten Königreich fortgeltenden Fassung
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 27 Jul 2023
- CAA, Verpflichtungszusagen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 26 Jul 2025 · Direct link