{"id":415495,"date":"2026-05-07T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:12:09","slug":"new-zealand-adds-20-more-russia-sanctions-targeting-cybercrime-and-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415495\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand adds 20 more Russia sanctions targeting cybercrime and payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">More than 2000 individuals, entities, and vessels have been the subject of sanctions since the Russia Sanctions Act came into force in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThose who misuse online platforms to support Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine will face real consequences, including sanctions,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The sanctions will also target an alternative payment provider being used in Russia to evade the existing sanctions in force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are targeting the payment infrastructure that has helped enable Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 2000 individuals, entities, and vessels have been the subject of sanctions since the Russia Sanctions Act&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2327,6946,34284,95,8843,4373,28739,266,12022,88835,112843,130,117,111,43,139,69,1653,384,8105,8565,27557,17902,3461,80],"class_list":["post-415495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2327","tag-actors","tag-adds","tag-and","tag-believed","tag-cyber","tag-cybercrime","tag-government","tag-host","tag-implemented","tag-malicious","tag-more","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-payments","tag-people","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-supporting","tag-targeting","tag-ukraine","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}