Mikhail Sergeevich LYAPIN

Russia

1984-07-29

Murmansk, Rostra district, Russia

Male

Kenya

100123069453 , Russia - INN Number; 716015051

The Secretary of State considers that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that Mikhail LYAPIN is an involved person under the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025 as he is or has been involved in a relevant activity, namely trafficking in persons. Specifically, Mikhail LYAPIN engaged in the deception and recruitment of Kenyan nationals into Russia through his associations with Global Face Human Resources and the Russian Embassy but, upon the Kenyan nationals’ arrival in Russia, they were forced to fight on the front line of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine under coercion.

UK

Asset freeze, Travel Ban, Director Disqualification Sanction

2026-05-05

UK

The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025

UK horizontal

Human Rights

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

The global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions (GIM) regime was established on 23 July 2025 via the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025. The primary legislation underpinning the Regulations is the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. The sanctions regime allows the UK government to impose sanctions to tackle people-smuggling, trafficking in persons and the instrumentalisation of migration for the purpose of destabilisation around the world. The regime is not intended to target individual countries or individual migrants. Rather, it is intended to target those that exploit some of the most vulnerable in society, putting lives at risk for their own gain and profiting from the dangerous smuggling and trafficking of innocent people. The measures which can be imposed under the GIM sanctions regime are travel bans, asset freezes, and director disqualifications.