5.4. Penalties
For most of the EU Member States countries, the sanction rules have been backed up
with criminal penalties (for example, in the United Kingdom, any individual contraveningthe sanction rules may face prison sentences for up to seven years and/or unlimited fines),
administrative fines, director disqualification and confiscation of goods. In the UK, the
FSA may also impose penalties for violations related to sanctions; for example in 2010,
the FSA fined RBS £5.6million for failing to have adequate systems and controls in place
to prevent the provision of financial services to persons on the HM Treasury sanctions list.