Belarus

1976-11-22

Belarus; United Arab Emirates

Treasury is designating Aliaksandr Mikalaevich Zaitsau (Zaitsau) to continue efforts to hold Belarusian elites accountable for their support to the regime. A former GoB official, Zaitsau maintains close ties to the Lukashenka family. Zaitsau is the owner of OOO Sokhra (Sokhra), which is engaged in wholesale, gold mining, and the promotion of Belarusian industrial products in Africa and the Middle East. Zaitsau is being designated pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of Bremino Group, an entity that was designated in August 2021 pursuant to E.O. 14038 for operating or having operated in the transportation sector of the Belarus economy. Sokhra is also being designated pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Zaitsau. Canada and the EU sanctioned Zaitsau in June 2021, and the EU also sanctioned Sokhra in June 2021.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0607

2022-02-24

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.

SDN