Belarus

Pekinskiy bld. 22, Minsk, 222205, Belarus; Tsentralnaya Str. 2, room ll6, Yutski, 222744, Belarus

691827047, Tax ID No.

LLC Laboratory of Additive Technologies (LAT), also recently known as LLC Laser Devices and Technologies, is identified as a Belarus-based entity focused on research and development in the natural sciences; however, LAT generates its revenue by supplying components to companies, including Peleng, that produce weapons for the Russian Federation and are under U.S. and EU sanctions. For example, LAT has procured encoder disks—a component for sensors that detect motion and are used in panoramic sights for T-72s or other tanks—from a Taiwanese precision instrument maker and bypassed sanctions to move the encoder disks and payment through a third-country intermediary. Yuri Aleksandrovich Chivel (Chivel), a Belarusian national, is LAT's Director and has signed contracts certifying that LAT intends to and has supplied components to Peleng. OFAC is designating LAT pursuant to E.O. 14038 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of Peleng, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038. OFAC is designating Chivel pursuant to E.O. 14038 for having been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of LAT, an entity whose property and interests are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2533

2024-08-09

US

Executive Order 14038 Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in Belarus

OFAC country specific

Belarus

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry, Trade sanctions

E.O. 14038. On August 9, 2021, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), issued E.O. 14038. In E.O. 14038, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13405, finding that the Belarusian regime's harmful activities and long-standing abuses aimed at suppressing democracy and the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus including illicit and oppressive activities stemming from the August 9, 2020, fraudulent Belarusian presidential election and its aftermath, such as the elimination of political opposition and civil society organizations and the regime's disruption and endangering of international civil air travel—constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

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