The United States has announced a set of tough sanctions on individuals, entities and government officials who are Operating as funding sources for Belarus' Alyaksandr Lukashenka regime and its domestic repression and facilitating Russia's war against Ukraine.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating eight individuals and five entities.
The targets include the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of Belarus and four members of its board of directors; three family members of U.S.-designated Aliaksey Ivanavich Aleksin; three entities controlled by the Government of Belarus: Open Joint Stock Company Belavia Belarusian Airlines (Belavia), Open Joint Stock Company Minsk Civil Aviation Plant 407, Joint Stock Company Byelorussian Steel Works Management Company (BSW); and Bel-Kap-Steel LLC.
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