OFAC Sanctions Russians Connected to Human Rights Violations
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added 15 Russian and Belarusian individuals and one entity to the Specially Designated Nationals list, it said in a March 15 announcement. Four individuals and one entity were listed under Magnitsky Act designations for…
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"gross human rights violations" involving events surrounding the death of renowned Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky" or against Russian human rights defender Oyub Titiev. In a separate press release, OFAC lists sanctions blocking the property of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus, Judge Natalia Mushnikova, Nurid Salamov, and Dzhabrail Akhmatov in connection with human rights abuses in Russia and Belarus. The State Department also announced sanctions in a second notice, listing 11 Russian military leaders "who operate or have operated in the defense and related materiel sector of the Russian Federation economy." OFAC Director Andrea Gacki said the designations, "demonstrate the United States will continue to impose concrete and significant consequences for those who engage in corruption or are connected to gross violations of human rights."