Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Ermias GHERMAY
Nationality
Ethiopia
DoB
1972 to 1977
Address
Sabratha, Libya; Khartoum, Sudan; Tripoli, Libya
Official reason
Ermias Ghermay (Ghermay) has been the head of an international migrant smuggling ring that stretches from East Africa to Europe via Libya for at least ten years. Ghermay reportedly organized the voyage of the wooden boat carrying migrants that sank off Lampedusa, Italy, on October 3, 2013, resulting in the drowning deaths of 366 people, and in the...
Other Information
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0409
Date of listing
2018-06-11
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Executive Order 13726 of April 19, 2016 Blocking Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Persons Contributing to the Situation in Libya
Regime
OFAC country specific / UN
Target State
Libya
Measures
Blocking Property, Suspending Entry
Official Information
E.O. 13726. On April 19, 2016, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, IEEPA and the United Nations Participation Act (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), issued E.O. 13726. In E.O. 13726, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13566, finding that the ongoing violence in Libya, human rights abuses, violations ...
Additional Details
SDN
Program URL
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/03/2022-20984/libyan-sanctions-regulations