UK Sanctions Sri Lankan Officials, Revises Russia-Related Designation
The U.K.’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation this week sanctioned four current or former Sri Lankan officials for human rights violations and revised an existing entry for a sanctioned Russian business executive.
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The country designated Jagath Ayasuriya, Wasantha Karannagoda, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, and Shavendra Silva for their involvement in the “cruel” treatment of, or human rights abuses, against people during conflicts in Sri Lanka. That included the more than two-decade long Sri Lankan civil war that ended earlier this century.
OFSI also revised the entry Tigran Oganesovich Khudaverdyan, who was an executive director of Yandex, a leading Russian technology company, until March 2022. The agency changed the spelling of his Russian name.