Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Wasantha KARANNAGODA

Aliases

Wasantha Kumar JAYADEVA; Wasantha Kumar Jayadeva KARANNAGODA

Position

Admiral of the Fleet

Nationality

Sri Lanka

DoB

1952-11-22

Official reason

Wasantha KARANNAGODA is an involved person within the meaning of the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 on the basis that he has been and remains responsible for an activity that amounts to a serious violation of an individual's right to life and right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment...

Other Information

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Date of listing

2025-03-24

Program information

Authority

UK

Program

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

Regime

UK horizontal

Target State

Human Rights

Measures

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

Sanctions Portfolio

• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...

Official Information

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 put in place sanctions measures to deter, and provide accountability for, activities which, if carried out by or on behalf of a State within the territory of that State, would amount to a serious violation by that State of an individual’s: • right to life • right not to be subjected to torture or ...

Additional Details

Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.

Program URL

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/680