Last Updated: December 4, 2024

Andrei Mykolayvych TROSHEV

Aliases

Андрей Николаевич ТРОШЕВ; Andrey Nikolaevich TROSHEV; Andrej Nikolajevitj Trosjev

Position

Retired colonel, Founding member and Executive Director (Chief of \nStaff) of the Wagner Group

DoB

1953-04-05

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2021.445.01.0007.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2021%3A445I%3ATOC

Official reason

Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group, which operates in Syria and trains and directs Syrian forces. The Wagner Group also supports the Assad regime and fights alongside regime-affiliated militias and the Syrian army. Andrey Troshev is directly involved in the military operations of the Wagner Group in Syria. He was particularl...

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2021-12-13)

Date of listing

2021-12-13

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

Restrictive measures against Syria

Regime

EU country specific

Target State

Syria

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 I of Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP.

Official Information

On 27 May 2013, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions in which it condemned the violence and the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights in Syria, the massacres committed by the Syrian armed forces and its militias, all instances of hostage taking of peacekeepers, and the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime. I...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013D0255-20230720