U.S. OFAC Human Rights Abusers

• Executive Order implemented global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
• Executive action was taken on 13 serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors.
• OFAC, also imposed sanctions on an additional 39 affiliated individuals and entities.

Yahya Jammeh

• Ex-President of Gambia 1994-2017 engaged in human rights abuses and corruption.
• Jammeh had plundered Gambia’s stole from state funds for his own personal gain.
• Gambian Government has taken action to freeze Jammeh’s assets within country.

Yankuba Badjie

• Director General of The Gambia’s NIA in December 2013 for presiding over abuses.
• Badjie oversaw the detention and murder of Solo Sandeng, an opposition member.
• Badjie led the Junglers paramilitary group who used torture and other abuses.

OFAC designations

• Africada Airways, Kanilai Group Intl, Kanilai Worni Family Farms, Atlantic Pelican,
• Royal Africa Capital Holding, Africada Financial Service & Bureau de Change, Kora Media,
• Africada Micro-Finance, Africada Insurance Company, Palm Grove Africa Dev’t Corp,
• Patriot Insurance Brokers. Co. Ltd, and Royal Africa Securities Brokerage. Co. Ltd.

Roberto Jose Rivas Reyes

• President of Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council, government on salary of $60k.
• Accused of corruption amassing personal wealth, included properties and private jets.
• For also perpetrating electoral fraud undermining Nicaragua’s electoral institutions.

Dan Gertler

• Gertler made hundreds of millions of dollars’ from corrupt mining and oil deals in DRC.
• Used friendship with President Joseph Kabila to be middleman for mining asset sales.
• 2010-12 DRC lost over $1.36bn in revenues from mining underpricing linked to Gertler.

OFAC designations

• Pieter Albert Deboutte, Fleurette Properties, and Fleurette Holdings Netherlands B.V.,
• Gertler Family Foundation, Oil of DRC, Jarvis Congo, Intl Diamond Industries,
• D.G.D. Investments , D.G.I. Israel , Proglan Capital, Emaxon Finance Intl.,
• Africa Horizons Investment, Caprikat , Foxwhelp, Caprikat and Foxwhelp SARL,
• Lora Enterprises, Zuppa Holdings, Orama Properties, DGI Mining, Rozaro Development.

Slobodan Tesic

• Among the biggest arms and munitions in the Balkans; decade under UN travel ban.
• Tesic would directly or indirectly provide bribes and financial assistance to officials.

OFAC designations

• Preduzece Za Trgovinu Na Veliko I Malo Partizan Tech DOO Beograd-Savski Venac
• (“Partizan Tech”), Charso Limited, Grawit, and Technoglobal Systems DOO Beograd.

Maung Maung Soe

• Former chief of Burmese Army’s Western command, for abuse on Rohingya civilians.
• Used security forces to enact extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, arbitrary arrest.

Benjamin Bol Mel

• Benjamin Bol Mel is the President of ABMC Thai-South Sudan Construction Company.
• Received preferential treatment from officials, and the Government of South Sudan.

OFAC designations

• ABMC Thai-South Sudan Construction Company Limited and Home and Away LTD.

Mukhtar Hamid Shah

• Shah is Pakistani surgeon specializing in kidney transplants believed to be involved
  in kidnapping, wrongful confinement, and removal of and trafficking in human organs.

Gulnara Karimova

• Daughter of former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, led organized crime syndicate.
• Charged for abetting activities of organized crime group with assets of over $1.3bn

Angel Rondon Rijo

• Politically connected businessman and lobbyist in DR, who funneled bribes from
• Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, for building projects such as dams.

Artem Chayka

• Artem Chayka is the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
• Leveraged father’s position to unfairly win state-owned assets and contracts.

Gao Yan

• Gao Yan was the Beijing Public Security Bureau Chaoyang Branch director.
• Human rights activist Cao Shunli held at Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
• Cao fell into a coma and died from organ failure, signs of emaciation and neglect.

Sergey Kusiuk

• Sergey Kusiuk was commander of an elite Ukrainian police unit, the Berkut.
• Special Investigations named Kusiuk as a leader of attack on peaceful protesters.

Julio Antonio Juarez Ramirez

• Julio Antonio Juarez Ramirez an Guatemalan Congressman is accused of attack.
• Hired hit men to kill journalists whose reporting hurt Juarez’s plan for reelection.