Last Updated: November 26, 2023
OSAM (Otdiel’naya sluzhba aktivnykh mieropriyatiy)
Aliases
Отдельная служба активных мероприятий (ОСАМ); Асобная служба актыўных мерапрыемстваў (АСАМ); ASAM (Asobnaia sluzhba aktyunykh merapryemstvau); Otdelnaja sluzjba aktivnych meroprijatij
Address
State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, 24 Volodarsky St., 220050, Minsk, Belarus
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Official reason
ASAM (Separate Service for Active Measures) is a Belarusian special border guard unit controlled by Viktar Lukashenka and headed by Ihar Kruchkou. ASAM forces under special operation ‘Gate’ organise illegal border crossings through Belarus to Union Member States and are directly involved in the physical transportation of migrants to the other side ...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2021-12-02)
Date of listing
2022-02-25
Program information
Authority
EU
Program
Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine
Regime
EU country specific
Target State
Belarus
Measures
Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission
Sanctions Portfolio
- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP.
Official Information
The Council of the EU first adopted restrictive measures against certain officials of Belarus on 24 September 2004. Targeted measures were imposed against persons who are considered by the Pourgourides Report to be key actors in the unresolved disappearances of four well-known persons in Belarus in 1999-2000. Additional listings were introduced fol...
Program URL
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02012D0642-20220604