Belarus

1970-05-04

Minsk, Belarus

Additionally, OFAC is designating members of the Belarusian SK’s leadership team — including chairman Dzmitry Hara (Hara) and his deputies, Oleg Stanislavovich Shandarovich (Shandarovich), Anatoly Ivanovich Vasiliev (Vasiliev), and Siarhei Yakaulevich Azemsha (Azemsha), pursuant to the E.O. of August 9, 2021.  Hara, who sat next to Pratasevich at a staged press conference where Pratasevich was forced to express admiration for Lukashenka, is being designated for being or having been a leader or official of the GoB.  Shandarovich, Vasiliev, and Azemsha are being designated for being leaders, officials, senior executive officers, or members of the board of directors of the Belarusian SK.  Canada, the EU, and the UK have sanctioned Azemsha, and the EU sanctioned Hara.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20210809

2021-08-09

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.

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