President Volodymyr Zelensky signed an order on June 22 to impose sanctions on individuals and legal entities doing business in the territories occupied by Russia of Ukraine, including Crimea.
According to ZelenskyThe sanctions aim “those who cooperate with the (Russian) occupier of our land” because they “help to justify the aggression, to consider normal to earn money in the occupation and to pay taxes” to Russia.
The order, which follows a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, was published On the website of the presidential office as well as the lists of people sanctioned and businesses.
The order is only the beginning of a broader plan of sanctions against these people, with more steps that soon arrive, wrote Zelensky.
According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian authorities also strive to fully synchronize Ukrainian sanctions with the stages of foreign partners.
“Justice must prevail in all jurisdictions and really restrict all those who choose Russia and war,” he added.
The lists of people sanctioned and companies published on the website of the presidential office have not clarified the nature of their commercial activities or their collaboration with the authorities of the Russian occupation and the State.
The list includes the legislator Artem Dmytriuk, which fled Ukraine in August 2024 and is suspected of having attacked a police officer and a member of the military service.
Ex-farming ex-avocado Oleksandr Onyshchenkowhich was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for large -scale fraud in the gas sector between 2013 and 2016, is also one of the newly sanctioned persons.
Arricano Real Estate PLC, which has several major shopping centers in kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, was also sanctioned with his former majority commissioner, the Estonian businessman Hillar Tededer. Until 2024Arrico shareholders included Dragon capitalThe largest investment company in Ukraine belonging to the Czech businessman Tomas Fiala.
Ukrainian collaboration laws have long raised discussions between public members, academics and practitioners.
According to an article of 2024 by the Human Rights Center ZminaUkraine’s law acknowledges doing business in occupied territories as a collaboration crime. Human rights defenders led research This highlighted the defects and problems of the law with his request.
A 2023 report By the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union said that the promulgation of legal consequences for collaboration under the law could violate international human rights conventions in certain cases.
“The law does not take into account cases when a person carries out economic activities to cover the basic needs of their family or when such activities support the livelihoods of the population under occupation,” the Zmina Human Rights Center wrote.
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