The United States has announced additional financial sanctions on three individuals and nine entities supporting Russia’s attempt to integrate the Crimea region of Ukraine through private investment and privatization projects or engaging in serious human rights abuses in furtherance of Russia’s occupation or control over parts of Ukraine. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker stated, “The United States is leveraging new authorities to target Russian actors for serious human rights abuses in parts of Ukraine that the United States government has determined are forcibly occupied or otherwise controlled by the Russian government, and other reprehensible acts in furtherance of the Kremlin’s malign agenda.”
The sanctioned individuals are Andriy Volodymyrovych Sushko, Aleksandr Basov and Vladimir Nikolaevich Zaritsky. The sanctioned entities are the Ministry of State Security of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Mriya Resort and Spa, Limited Liability Company Garant-SV, Limited Liability Company Infrastructure Projects Management Company, Joint Stock Company Sanatorium AY-Petri, Joint Stock Company Dyulber, Joint Stock Company Sanatorium Miskhor, KRIMTETS, AO, and Limited Liability Company Southern Project.
As a result of these sanctions, as of November 8, 2018, all of these individuals and entities have been placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, their property and interests in property that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction have been blocked, and U.S. individuals and entities are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.