OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOI OTVETSTVENNOSTYU RUZEKSPEDITSIYA
Nationality
Belarus
Address
1K, pom. 36, ul. Zavodskaya, Bolbasovo, 211004, Belarus;
40 Nemiga St., p. 304, Minsk, 220004, Belarus
Reg. ID
690664113, Tax ID No.
Official reason
Ruzekspeditsiya LLC (Ruzekspeditsiya) and VLATE Logistic LLC (VLATE) are two Belarus-based logistics entities involved in the management of border crossing logistics and transportation services through Belarus to Russia, including the re-export of machinery, hydrocarbons, and Western European goods to Russia. These companies form the core of a logistics network controlled by U.S.-designated Lukashenka ‘wallets’ — Belarusian oligarchs who receive preferential treatment from the GoB in exchange for providing funds to Lukashenka and other members of his inner circle; financing Lukashenka’s personal projects; and publicly supporting the regime — Aliaksandr Zaitsau (February 24, 2022), Mikalai Varabei, and Aliaksey Aleksin (both on August 9, 2021). Since the August 9, 2021 U.S. designation of these oligarchs’ logistics company, Bremino Group, Ruzekspeditsiya and VLATE have taken over many of Bremino Group’s former operations, increasing these two companies’ revenue exponentially. As a result of Ruzekspeditsiya and VLATE’s connections to Zaitsau, Varabei, and Aleksin, both companies receive privileged tax status and limited customs fees from Lukashenka.
Ruzekspeditsiya and VLATE are owned and directed by six individuals—Belarusian businessmen Oleg Romualdovich Gerasim (Gerasim), Oleg Fedorovich Barabanov (Barabanov), Dmitry Mikhailovich Zamulevich (Zamulevich), and Evgeniy Yurievich Krokhotin (Krokhotin), and Russian businessmen Vladimir Mikhailovich Arkadiev (Arkadiev) and Oleg Vladimirovich Petrov (Petrov)—who are all personally connected to Zaitsau, Varabei, and Aleksin, and represent these oligarchs’ interest in the companies.
OFAC is designating Ruzekspeditsiya, VLATE, Gerasim, Petrov, Barabanov, Zamulevich, Arkadiev, and Krokhotin pursuant to E.O. 14038 for operating or having operated in the transportation sector of the Belarus economy.
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.
