Vladimir Andreyevich KONSTANTINOV

1956-11-19

Vladimirovka, Moldova

Executive

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated Crimea-based separatist leaders Sergey Aksyonov, and Vladimir Konstantinov, leader of Ukranian Choice Viktor Medvedchuk, and former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13660, which targets persons contributing to the current situation in Ukraine.  Aksyonov, Konstantinov, Medvedchuk, and Yanukovych are being designated for their role in actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.  They are also being designated for their role in actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine. Konstantinov has been acting as the speaker of the Crimean parliament, which on March 11, 2014, declared independence from Ukraine.  Konstantinov signed the declaration, and he has stated that he intends to draft a constitution for the so-called Republic of Crimea.  Consistent with this position, Konstantinov declared on March 7, 2014 that Ukrainian troops remaining in Crimea should leave Crimea unless they were willing to renounce their loyalty to Kyiv and serve the region’s new administration.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2326

2014-03-17

US

Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014 Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine

OFAC country specific

Russia

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

E.O. 13660. On March 6, 2014, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701et seq.) (IEEPA), issued E.O. 13660. In E.O. 13660, the President determined that the actions and policies of persons, including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine, that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and declared a national emergency to deal with that threat. Section 1(a) of E.O. 13660 blocks, with certain exceptions, all property and interests in property that are in the United States, that come within the United States, or that are or come within the possession or control of any U.S. person, of any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State to, among other things, be responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine or threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.

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