Financial Sanctions Notice UK Human Rights Designations 12 October 2020

Description

1. The Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (UK Human Rights Designations) (Jersey) Order 2020 implements asset-freeze designations made under the UK Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (the “UK Regulations”).

2. The UK Regulations were made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, and provide for the freezing of funds and economic resources of certain persons, entities or bodies responsible for or involved in serious violations of human rights.

3. The UK has made corrections to the identifying information for 17 entries on the UK Sanctions List to align them with the UK Regulations.

4. The following designations have been updated and remain subject to an asset freeze.

Individual

• ABAHUSSAIN, Mansour Othman M
• AL ASIRI, Ahmad Hassan Mohammed
• AL BOSTANI, Meshal Saad
• AL QAHTANI, Saif Saad Q.
• ANICHIN, Aleksey Vasilyevich
• BASTRYKIN, Alexander Ivanovich
• DROGANOV, Aleksei
• KARLOV, Gennady Vyacheslavovich
• LITVINOVA, Larisa Anatolievna
• MUTREB, Maher Abdulaziz
• PECHEGIN, Andrey Ivanovich
• PODOPRIGOROV, Sergei
• TRIKUYLA, Elena Anatolievna
• UKHNALOVA, Svetlana
• VINOGRADOVA, Natalya
• WIN, Soe

Entity

• MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY BUREAU 7

5. You must:

• check whether you maintain any accounts or hold any funds or economic resources for the persons set out in the Annex to this Notice.
• freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources.
• refrain from dealing with the funds or assets or making them available (directly or indirectly) to such persons unless licensed by the Minister for External Relations (“MER”).
• report any findings to MER, together with any additional information that would facilitate compliance with the Regulation.
• provide any information concerning the frozen assets of designated persons that MER may request. Information reported to MER may be passed on to other regulatory authorities or law enforcement.

6. Failure to comply with financial sanctions legislation or to seek to circumvent its provisions is a criminal offence.

7. The Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (UK Human Rights Designations) (Jersey) Order 2020 (the “Order”), made under the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 (“SAFL”), links to the UK Regulations.

8. Any asset-freeze designations made under the UK Regulations are effective immediately in Jersey.

9. Copies of Jersey sanctions Orders and other legislation, including the Order and SAFL, can be found on the Jersey Legal Information Board website.

10. A copy of the UK Regulations can be found on legislation.gov.uk.

11. For more information on Financial Sanctions please see the Jersey Financial Services Commission guidance on financial sanctions.

12. Non-media enquiries, reports and licence applications should be addressed to:

Head of International Compliance

Office of the Chief Executive

External Relations

sanctions@gov.je

13. Full details of the amendments can be found here.