Tatyana PROTOPOVICH

Belarus

1996-03-24

Female

Praspiekt Dziarzynsakaha, 82, Flat 227, Minsk, 22089, Belarus

4240396A013PB6, National ID No.; MP4133985, Passport

Business

The Black Shield network specializes in buying and selling weapons and materiel, ranging from ammunition, small arms, specialized sniper equipment and silencers, to armored vehicles, tanks, military helicopters, artillery, surface to air missiles and anti-tank missiles. This also includes specialized military technology like night vision equipment. The network uses intermediary and front companies such as Centuronic Ltd (Centuronic) and S. Group Airlines Ltd, both located in Cyprus, and Rayya Danişmanlik Hizmetleri Limited Şirketi (Rayya Danismanlik), located in Turkiye, to conduct their business. Tatyana Protopovich (Protopovich) is a director of Centuronic Ltd, and as CEO of Rayya Danismanlik, Nora Yagmur (Yagmur) has participated in attempts to procure arms. Additionally, Alhaitham Al Ali (Alhaitham) is a Slovak citizen and arms dealer who has acted as a middleman for Black Shield in its arms deals with a European armaments firm. OFAC is designating Protopovich pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being or having been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of Centuronic, an entity whose property and interests are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2251

2024-04-15

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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