Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Tareck Zaidan El-Aissami Maddah
Position
Sectoral Vice-President of Economy and Minister of Petroleum; Former Minister of Industry and National Production; Former Venezuelan Vice President
DoB
1974-11-12
Official reason
Sectoral Vice President of the Economy and Minister of Petroleum, former Minister for National Industry. Reasonable grounds to suspect that as the former Vice President of Venezuela with oversight of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) El-Aissami is involved in the commission of serious human rights violations carried out by the or...
Other Information
Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
Date of listing
2020-12-31
Program information
Authority
UK
Program
The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Regime
UK country specific
Target State
Venezuela
Measures
Asset freeze and making available provisions, Trade sanctions, 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 Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 came fully into force on 31 December 2020. They are intended to ensure that certain financial, trade and immigration sanctions relating to Venezuela continue to operate effectively. You should also review the Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and the Sanctio...
Additional Details
Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 6 of the Regulations.
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