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Than HLAING

Position

Deputy Minister for Home Affairs and Chief of Burma Police Force

DoB

1965

Address

Burma

Official reason

Today, the Department of State also designated former Burma police chief and deputy Home Affairs minister Than Hlaing under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022, for his involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely the extrajudicial killing of peaceful protestors in...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0996

Date of listing

2021-03-22

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 14014

Regime

OFAC country specific

Target State

Myanmar

Measures

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry, Trade sanctions

Official Information

On February 10, 2021, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) (IEEPA), issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14014 of February 10, 2021, “Blocking Property With Respect to the Situation in Burma” (86 FR 9429, February 12, 2021). In E.O. 14014, the President determined that...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/01/2021-11483/burma-sanctions-regulations