US Global Magnitsky sanctions

Yahya Jammeh

Yahya Jammeh (Jammeh), the former President of The Gambia who came to power in 1994 and stepped down in 2017, has a long history of engaging in serious human rights abuses and corruption. Jammeh created a terror and assassination squad called the Junglers that answered directly to him. Jammeh used the Junglers to threaten, terrorize, …

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Artem Chayka

Artem Chayka is the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and is alleged to have leveraged his father’s position and ability to award his subordinates to unfairly win state-owned assets and contracts and put pressure on business competitors. For example, in 2014, reconstruction of a highway began, and Chayka’s competitor for supplying …

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Benjamin Bol Mel

Benjamin Bol Mel (Bol Mel) is the President of ABMC Thai-South Sudan Construction Company Limited (ABMC) and has served as the Chairman of the South Sudan Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture. Bol Mel has also served as South Sudanese President Salva Kiir’s principal financial advisor, has been Kiir’s private secretary, and was perceived within …

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Julio Juarez

Julio Antonio Juarez Ramirez (Juarez) is a Guatemalan Congressman accused of ordering an attack in 2015 in which two journalists were killed and another injured. Guatemalan prosecutors and an UN-sponsored commission investigating corruption in Guatemala allege that Juarez hired hitmen to kill Prensa Libre correspondent Danilo Efrain Zapan Lopez, whose reporting had hurt Juarez’s plan …

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Pieter Deboutte

Deboutte is a known associate of the sanctioned billionaire Dan Gertler. Deboutte served as the head of Gertler’s operations in Congo, for example, as manager of the Fleurette company that held Gertler’s mining and oil interests in the country. [1] [2] Information