The UK's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Apple Distribution International, Apple’s Ireland-based subsidiary, £390,000 for making two payments totalling over £635,000 to a sanctioned Russian entity through the App Store in 2022. The fine is negligible but sets a precedent that includes the first time a UK sanctions regulator has penalised a major technology platform for processing developer payments to such a sanctioned entity. The payments were made to Russian video streaming service Okko, which had been owned by Sberbank, Russia's largest bank and one of the first financial institutions sanctioned by Western governments after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Apple withdrew from direct sales in Russia in March 2022 and suspended App Store submissions from Russian developers and disabled Apple Pay in the country. However, the company continued to process developer payments for a period during this period. OFSI confirmed that the penalty was imposed on the Irish subsidiary, not Apple Inc.