Notice

In accordance with item 9, regulation 6 of the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011 (Cth) (the Regulations), the Minister for Foreign Affairs (the Minister) has previously designated for targeted financial sanctions, and declared for travel bans (together ‘listed’), by legislative instrument persons meeting the following criteria:

A person or entity that the Minister is satisfied is responsible for, or complicit in, the threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) GIVES NOTICE TO THE PERSONS AND ENTITIES NAMED BELOW that the Minister will be considering whether these listings under regulation 6 of the Regulations will be remade.

Listed Persons and Entities

1. Sergey Yur’yevich Glazyev
2. Andrei Aleksandrovich Klishas
3. Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko
4. Yelena Borisovna Mizulina
5. Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin
6. Leonid Eduardovich Slutskiy
7. Vladislav Yur’yevich Surkov
8. Aleksandr Viktorovich Vitko
9. Serhiy Valeriyovich Aksyonov
10. Volodomyr Andriyovych Konstantynov
11. Viktor Volodymyrovich Medvedchuk
12. Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych
13. Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko
14. Sergei Borisovich Ivanov
15. Yuri Valentinovich Kovalchuk
16. Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg
17. Boris Romanovich Rotenberg
18. Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko
19. Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin
20. Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin
21. Oleg Yevgenyvich Belaventsev
22. Vladimir Michailovich Dzhabarov
23. Alexei Alexeyevich Gromov
24. Olga Fedorovna Kovitidi
25. Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak
26. Vladimir Igorevich Kozhin
27. Sergei Mikhailovich Mironov
28. Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin
29. Viktor Alekseevic Ozerov
30. Aleksei Pushkov
31. Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov
32. Oleg Genrikhovich Savelyev
33. Aleksandr Borisovich Totoonov
34. Sergei Vladimirovich Zheleznyak
35. Aleksei Mikhailovich Chaliy
36. Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin
37. Mikhail Grigorevich Malyshev
38. Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ponomaryov
39. Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin
40. Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev
41. Sergey Pavlovych Tsekov
42. Pyotr Anatoliyovych Zima
43. Aleksandr Viktorovich Galkin
44. Anatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov
45. Deniz Valentinovich Berezovskiy
46. Vladimir Vasilyevich Ustinov
47. Dmitry Vladimirovich Ovsyannikov
48. Colonel-General Alexander Dvornikov
49. Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov
50. Bank Rossiya
51. Invest Capital Bank
52. SMP Bank
53. Stroygazmontazh
54. Aquanika
55. Avia Group LLC
56. Avia Group Nord LLC
57. Stroytransgaz Group
58. The Volga Group
59. Transoil
60. Chernomorneftegaz

Aliases for the abovementioned persons and entities are included in DFAT’s Consolidated List [XLSX].

Effects of Listing

The effect of a listing under regulation 6 of the Regulations is as follows:

1. any person holding a ‘controlled asset’ (including an asset that is owned or controlled by a listed person or entity) commits an offence if they, without the authorisation of the Minister, use or deal with that asset, or allow it to be used or dealt with, or facilitate the use of or dealing with it; and
2. any person who, directly or indirectly, makes an asset available to, or for the benefit of, a listed person or entity, without the authorisation of the Minister, commits an offence.

Request for statement of reasons

DFAT will provide a listed person or entity, or their authorised representative, with an unclassified statement of reasons for the listing, upon written request to the address below.

Submissions

A listed person or entity, or their authorised representative, may make a written submission to the Minister, in order to inform the Minister’s consideration of whether to list these persons again under regulation 6 of the Regulations.

Submissions must be received by 5pm on 4 May 2023 Australian Eastern Standard Time. DFAT reserves the right not to consider late submissions.

Application for revocation of a listing

A listed person or entity, or their authorised representative, may apply in writing to the Minister at any time to have the listing revoked. The application must set out the circumstances relied upon to justify the application.

Address to request a statement of case, make a submission or apply to revoke listing

By email to: sanctions@dfat.gov.au

By post to:
Director, Australian Sanctions Office
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
RG Casey Building
John McEwen Crescent
Barton ACT 0221 Australia

Application for sanctions permit to use or deal with a ‘controlled asset’ or to make an asset available to a listed person or entity

The Regulations provides that a holder of a ‘controlled asset’ may apply to the Minister for a permit to authorise use of or dealing with the ‘controlled asset’.

The Regulations also provides that a person may apply to the Minister for a permit to authorise a person or entity to make assets available to a listed person or entity.

Applications for permits must specify whether the application relates to a basic expense dealing, a legally required dealing or a contractual dealing as those terms are defined in regulation 20 of the Regulations. Applications may be submitted through DFAT’s online portal, Pax.