Artur Aleksandrovich ZHIROV

a chemical weapons expert and Director of SC Signal

1961-07-06

Male

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R2228

Military

Artur Zhirov is a chemical weapons expert and Director of SC Signal, a research institute that has been linked to Russia's chemical weapons program. As Director of SC Signal, Artur Zhirov provided technical support to operations against Yulia Navalnaya and Alexei Navalny that took place in Kaliningrad on 6 July 2020 and to the planning of the subsequent poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a Novichok-type nerve agent in Tomsk on 20 August 2020, which constitutes a use of chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention. Therefore, Artur Zhirov was engaged in preparations for the use of chemical weapons and he provided technical and material support for using chemical weapons.

EU

2022/2228 (OJ L293-I)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R2228

2022-11-14

EU

Restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons

EU-horizontal

Chemical Weapons

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

- All assets of the listed persons and entities listed in the Annex of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/1544 should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them; - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/1544.

At the European Council on 28 June 2018, Member States called for the prompt adoption of a new EU regime of restrictive measures to address the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. This is part of EU's support to the Decision of the Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (CWC) of 27 June 2018 on addressing the threat from chemical weapons use. On 15 October 2018, the Council adopted restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons. These measures are in line with UN Security Council Resolutions 1540 (2004), 2118 (2013), 2209 (2015), 2235 (2015) and 2325 (2016). The measures include asset freeze and travel ban of persons and/or entities directly responsible for the development and use of chemical weapons as well as those who provide financial, technical or material support, and those who assist, encourage or are associated with them.