The U.S. Division of the Treasury’s Workplace of Overseas Belongings Management (OFAC) designating on Tuesday 11 entities and 7 people pursuant to Govt Order (E.O.) 14038 and one particular person pursuant to E.O. 14024. This motion will increase the stress on Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s (Lukashenka) authoritarian regime for its brutal suppression of Belarus’s democratic civil society, corrupt monetary enrichment of the Lukashenka household, and complicity in Russia’s unjustified struggle in opposition to Ukraine.
“Immediately’s motion reaffirms our efforts to carry Lukashenka, his household, and his regime accountable for his or her anti-democratic actions and human rights abuses, each in Belarus and world wide,” stated Beneath Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Monetary Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. “We are going to proceed to focus on the Lukashenka regime’s income mills, his so-called private ‘wallets,’ and actors who facilitate Russia’s struggle of aggression in Ukraine, coordinate the motion of kids from Ukraine to Belarus, and help Lukashenka’s authoritarian regime.”
Dzmitry Shautsou (Shautsou) is the Secretary Common for the Belarus Crimson Cross. Because the begin of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been transferring lots of of hundreds of kids from Ukraine to Russia. Belarus has been complicit and supportive of Russia’s efforts to gather and transport Ukrainian youngsters to Belarus. The Worldwide Legal Court docket has issued arrest warrants for each Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Commissioner for Kids’s Rights within the Workplace of the President of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova for his or her roles within the illegal deportation and switch of kids from Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Russia’s federal authorities and Belarus’ regime have been working collectively to coordinate and fund the motion of kids from Ukraine to Belarus. Each Ukraine and the Belarusian democratic opposition have labelled the transfers illegal deportations. In June 2023, the Belarusian Crimson Cross reported that greater than 700 Ukrainian youngsters had been in Belarus. In July 2023, the Belarus Crimson Cross sparked worldwide outrage due throughout Shautsou’s visitation of kids in Luhansk, Ukraine, the place Shautsou claimed on Belarus state tv that the group has been actively concerned in bringing Ukrainian youngsters from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to Belarus. Moreover, Shautsou’s look in Luhansk was in the end in support of Lvova-Belova-led Russian authorities efforts to take away Ukrainian youngsters from Russian-occupied space of Ukraine to Belarus. In November 2023, Lvova-Belova met with the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Belarus to plan out subsequent joint steps for the safety of kids.
On October 4, 2023, IFRC referred to as for Shautsou’s elimination, and on December 1, 2023, IFRC suspended the membership of the Belarus Crimson Cross Society for non-compliance with this order because of their refusal to take away him from his place.
OFAC is designating Shautsou pursuant to E.O. 14024 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or offered monetary, materials, or technological help for, or items or providers to or in help of, Maria Lvova-Belova, an individual whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14024.
Aliaksandr Shakutsin (Shakutsin) is a member of Lukashenka’s inside circle and is among the main businessmen in Belarus, having made his fortune benefitting from privatization beneath Lukashenka. Shakutsin has served as one among Lukashenka’s closest supporters and as one among his ‘wallets,’ offering funds to Lukashenka and his regime in trade for preferential therapy and advantages. In 2020, Shakutsin brazenly backed Lukashenka within the wake of Belarus’s fraudulent election and denigrated pro-democracy protestors because the Regime started to provoke its widespread repression of civil liberties. Shakutsin, who has already been sanctioned by quite a few U.S. allies, continues to try to evade sanctions by means of entrance corporations in Europe and the Center East, and usually violates equipment import bans into Belarus and Russia.
OFAC is designating Shakutsin pursuant to E.O. 14038 for working or having operated within the development sector of the Belarus economic system.
By means of his main enterprise, Open Joint Inventory Firm Administration Holding Firm Amkodor (Amkodor), Shakutsin controls a substantial piece of Belarus’s development equipment and equipment elements manufacturing. Since a minimum of 2021, Shakutsin has personally provided Amkodor’s providers as a developer of protection expertise to Lukashenka and the Belarusian Armed Forces. Amkodor is at present growing and planning to provide assault drones and artillery hearth methods, which representatives from Amkodor and the Belarusian Armed Forces have described as having excessive export potential. Regardless of working a deficit for years, Amkodor has relied on Shakutsin’s private relationship with Lukashenka to safe extremely favorable loans and different types of public help on the expense of the common Belarusian. Amkodor has tremendously expanded its footprint in Russia following the withdrawal of overseas companies within the wake of Russia’s struggle of aggression in Ukraine, and Amkodor has acquired loans and preferential therapy from the Russian authorities as effectively.
OFAC is designating Amkodor pursuant to E.O. 14038 for working or having operated within the development sector of the Belarus economic system.
Republican Manufacturing and Commerce Unitary Enterprise Administration Firm of the Holding Belarusian Cement Firm (BCC) is a state-owned enterprise that unites massive cement crops in Belarus right into a collective holding with a mixed manufacturing capability of roughly 5 million tons per yr. Decreased export volumes to the European Union (EU) following sectoral EU sanctions in June 2022 have resulted in BCC rising its exports to Russia to compensate. BCC exported a document 2.3 occasions extra cement to Russia in April 2023 than in April 2022.
OFAC is designating BCC pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the Authorities of Belarus (GoB).
Belarusian Manufacturing and Commerce Concern of Timber Woodworking and Pulp and Paper Trade (Bellesbumprom)is a state-owned enterprise whose actions are divided into three sectors: (1) logging, together with procurement and hauling of timber and its cross-cutting; manufacturing of commercial wooden and wooden merchandise; manufacturing of sawlog, veneer, matchbox and technological uncooked supplies; and resin extraction; (2) pulp and paper trade specialised within the manufacturing of cardboard and paper merchandise with over 20 forms of paper and cardboard; and (3) woodworking and furnishings manufacturing.
OFAC is designating Bellesbumprom pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB.
Republican Unitary Enterprise Beltamozhservice (Beltamozhservice) is a state-owned Belarusian logistics supplier that operates beneath Belarus’s State Customs Committee. By means of its place as a state-owned enterprise and as Belarus’s official customs consultant, Beltamozhservice is a significant income generator for the Lukashenka regime and has facilitated large-scale smuggling schemes into Russia for the advantage of oligarchs and the Lukashenka regime. Each the EU and Canada have additionally designated Beltamozhservice for benefitting and supporting the Lukashenka regime and for committing a grave breach of worldwide peace and safety, respectively.
OFAC is designating Beltamozhservice pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB.
Vadim Aleksandrovich Babarikin (Babarikin) serves because the Common Director of Beltamozhservice and its branches. OFAC is designating Babarikin pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a frontrunner or official of the GoB.
Pavel Georgievich Topuzidis (Topuzidis) and Viktor Evgenievich Petrovich (Petrovich) are two of Belarus’s richest oligarchs and are vital ‘wallets’ for Lukashenka and his regime. Topuzidis is an in depth confidante and has served in management roles on an election fee in Minsk and as Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Entrepreneurship Growth Council. Topuzidis, who has maintained appreciable affect in Belarus, has personally funded three ice hockey palaces, together with one on one among Lukashenka’s private residences. Canada has additionally sanctioned Topuzidis for committing a grave breach of worldwide peace and safety.
OFAC is designating Topuzidis pursuant to E.O. 14038 for working or having operated within the tobacco sector of the Belarus economic system. OFAC is designating Petrovich pursuant to E.O. 14038 for working or having operated within the tobacco sector of the Belarus economic system.
By means of their enterprise, Tabak Make investments LLC (Tabak Make investments), — which till 2017 was the one non-public tobacco producer in Belarus — Topuzidis and Petrovich management 30 % of Belarus’s tobacco manufacturing. In accordance with investigative journalists in Belarus, Tabak Make investments has been closely concerned in an elaborate cigarette smuggling scheme into Russia that has generated thousands and thousands of {dollars} in income for the corporate.
OFAC is designating Tabak Make investments pursuant to E.O. 14038 for working or having operated within the tobacco sector of the Belarus economic system.
BELARUSIAN DEFENSE SECTOR
JSC Minsk Mechanical Plant Named After S.I. Vavilov Administration Firm of BelOMO Holding (BelOMO) is a state-owned enterprise that operates within the protection sector in Belarus, producing and promoting optical sights for small arms, together with telescopic sights and optical sights with illuminated reticles. BelOMO operates because the administration firm for a number of different protection sector entities, two of which OFAC is proposing for designation under.
OFAC is designating BelOMO pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
Alexander Ivanovich Moroz (Moroz) is the Director Common of BelOMO.
OFAC is designating Moroz pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a frontrunner, official, senior government officer, or member of the board of administrators of BelOMO, an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
JSC Zenit BelOMO (Zenit) is owned by BelOMO, a state-owned enterprise that operates within the protection sector in Belarus. For 50 years, Zenit has produced navy sights, together with scopes with illuminated reticles, purple dot sights, normal function navy sights, and spare components.
OFAC is designating Zenit pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, BelOMO, an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Gaichuk (Gaichuk) is the Director Common of Zenit.
OFAC is designating Gaichuk pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a frontrunner, official, senior government officer, or member of the board of administrators of Zenit, an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
Scientific Technical Heart LEMT BelOMO (LEMT) is owned by BelOMO, a state-owned enterprise that operates within the protection sector in Belarus. LEMT makes a speciality of analysis and improvement, manufacturing, and modernization of optoelectronic and laser gadgets for unmanned aerial autos, laser-optical methods for air protection methods, and built-in border safety and safety methods. LEMT additionally produces optical sights and methods for gentle armament, laser rangefinders, range-finding modules primarily based on diode lasers, and laser hearth management methods.
OFAC is designating LEMT pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, BelOMO, an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
Alexei Petrovich Shkadarevich (Shkadarevich) is the Director Common of LEMT.
OFAC is designating Shkadarevich pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a frontrunner, official, senior government officer, or member of the board of administrators of LEMT, an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038, and for working within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA’S ILLEGAL WAR EFFORT
Open Joint Inventory Firm Alevkurp (Alevkurp) is a state-owned navy manufacturing firm of Belarus, specializing within the creation of recent radar methods. Alevkurp was established by the Order of the President of the Republic of Belarus and is a part of the State Navy Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Alevkurp was awarded by the Russian Authorities for growing export-oriented navy merchandise. Alevkurp was beforehand designated by the Canadian Authorities on November 17, 2022, pursuant to the Particular Financial Measures Act.
OFAC is designating Alevkurp pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB.
Planar Analysis and Manufacturing Holdings for Precision Engineering (Planar) is a developer and provider of elements for microelectronics in Belarus and has skilled a dramatic improve in demand from Russia since 2021 to interchange misplaced imports from the departure of overseas enterprises. In a February 2022 interview, Lukashenka stated semiconductor manufacturing can be changed by home enterprises Planar, Horizont Group, and Integral. On February 24, 2022, OFAC designated Integral pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or appearing or purporting to behave for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB, in addition to for working or having operated within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Belarus economic system.
OFAC is designating Planar pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB.
OJSC Horizont Holding Administration Firm (Horizont Group) and its associated enterprises function within the shopper and industrial electronics, plastics, and transportation sectors in Belarus. Horizont Group is a important participant in Russia’s protection provide chains by offering the Russian navy with its newest era shows. Horizont Group is a certified funding agent for the GoB since 2011 and produces multifunctional contact interactive options for the automotive and aviation industries.
OFAC is designating Horizont Group pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or managed by, or having acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, instantly or not directly, the GoB.