Last Updated: January 16, 2025
OSAM (Otdiel’naya sluzhba aktivnykh mieropriyatiy)
Aliases
Отдельная служба активных мероприятий (ОСАМ); Асобная служба актыўных мерапрыемстваў (АСАМ); ASAM (Asobnaia sluzhba aktyunykh merapryemstvau); Otdelnaja sluzjba aktivnych meroprijatij
Address
State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, 24 Volodarsky St., 220050, Minsk, Belarus
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Official reason
ASAM (Separate Service for Active Measures) is a Belarusian special border guard unit controlled by Viktar Lukashenka and headed by Ihar Kruchkou. ASAM forces under special operation ‘Gate’ organise illegal border crossings through Belarus to Union Member States and are directly involved in the physical transportation of migrants to the other side ...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2021-12-02)
Date of listing
2022-02-25
Program information
Authority
EU
Program
Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine
Regime
EU country specific
Target State
Belarus
Measures
Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission
Sanctions Portfolio
- All assets of the listed persons and entities 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 2012/642/CFSP.
Official Information
The EU has imposed several successive rounds of individual and sectoral sanctions, against those responsible for internal repression and human rights abuses in Belarus, and in the context of Belarus’ involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Council of the EU first adopted targeted restrictive measures against specific Belarusian officials ...
Program URL
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02012D0642-20220604