Canada imposes sanctions on individuals linked to human rights violations and corruption

November 3, 2017 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada

Under the new Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced targeted sanctions against 52 individuals.

The sanctions target individuals who are, in the opinion of the Government of Canada, responsible for, or complicit in, gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or acts of significant corruption.

These sanctions place an asset freeze in Canada on all listed people, and render listed persons as inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The names of the individuals targeted by these sanctions are: Aleksey Vasilyevich ANICHIN Alexander Ivanovich BASTRYKIN Aleksey DROGANOV Alexandra Viktorovna GAUS Stanislav Evgenievich GORDIEVSKY Victor Yakovlevich GRIN Pavel KARPOV Yelena KHIMINA Vyacheslav Georgievich KHLEBNIKOV Dmitry Vladislavovich KLYUEV Dmitriy KOMNOV Dmitry Borisovich KRATOV Andrei Alexandrovich KRECHETOV Aleksey KRIVORUCHKO Artem KUZNETSOV Larisa Anatolievna LITVINOVA Oleg LOGUNOV Viktor Aleksandrovich MARKELOV Andrey PECHEGIN Gennady Nikolaevich PLAKSIN Sergei PODOPRIGOROV Ivan Pavlovitch PROKOPENKO Oleg SILCHENKO Yelena STASHINA Vladlen Yurievich STEPANOV Olga STEPANOVA Fikret TAGIYEV Dmitri TOLCHINSKIY Svetlana UKHNALYOVA Natalya VINOGRADOVA