Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2197 of 13 December 2021 amending Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses

Article 1

The Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

ANNEX

ANNEX
1.
The following entries are added to the list of natural persons set out in Section A (‘Natural persons’) in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999:
Names
(Transliteration into Latin script)
Names
Identifying information
Reasons for listing
Date of listing
‘16.
Dimitriy (Dimitry, Dmitri, Dmitry) Valerievich UTKIN
Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин
(Russian spelling)
Position(s): Founder and commander of the Wagner Group
Rank: Lieutenant colonel (reserve)
Callsign: Vagner, Wagner
Wagner Group ID: M-0209
DOB: 1.6.1970 or 11.6.1970
POB: Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation)
Nationality: Russian
Address: Pskov, Russian Federation
Gender: male
Dimitriy Utkin, a former Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer, is the founder of the Wagner Group and responsible for coordinating and planning operations for the deployment of Wagner Group mercenaries across various countries.
In his commanding position within the Wagner Group, he is responsible for serious human rights abuses committed by the group, which include torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.
This includes the torturing to death of a Syrian deserter by four members of the Wagner Group in June 2017 in the governorate of Homs, Syria. According to a former member of the Wagner Group, Dimitriy Utkin personally ordered the torturing to death of the deserter as well as the filming of the act.
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17.
Stanislav Evgenievitch DYCHKO
Станислав Евгеньевич Дычко
(Russian spelling)
Position(s): Mercenary of the Wagner Group
DOB: 1990
Nationality: Russian
Gender: male
Stanislav Dychko, a former employee of the Stavropol police, is a mercenary of the Wagner Group.
Alongside three other mercenaries of the Wagner Group, he took part in the torturing to death of a Syrian deserter in June 2017 in the governorate of Homs, Syria.
He is therefore responsible for serious human rights abuses in Syria.
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18.
Valery (Valeriy) Nikolaevich ZAKHAROV
Валерий Николаевич Захаров
(Russian spelling)
Position(s): Security counsellor to the President of the Central African Republic (CAR)
Wagner Group ID: M-5658
DOB: 12.1.1970
POB: Leningrad, Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation)
Nationality: Russian
Gender: male
Valery Zakharov, a former member of the Russian state security (FSB), is the security counsellor to the President of the Central African Republic (CAR). He is a key figure in the Wagner Group’s command structure and keeps close links with the Russian authorities.
Given his influential position in CAR and his leading role in the Wagner Group, he is responsible for serious human rights abuses committed by the Wagner Group in CAR, which include extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.
This includes the murder of three Russian journalists in 2018, the security of whom was under the responsibility of Valery Zakharov.
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2.
The following entry is added to the list of legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Section B (‘Legal persons, entities and bodies’) in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999:
Names
(Transliteration into Latin script)
Names
Identifying information
Reasons for listing
Date of listing
‘5.
Wagner Group a.k.a. Vagner Group
Группа Вагнера
(Russian spelling)
The Wagner Group is a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity, which was established in 2014 as a successor organisation of the Slavonic Corps. It is led by Dimitriy Utkin and financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Through the setting-up of local entities, and with the support of local governments, the Wagner Group finances and conducts its operations.
The Wagner Group is responsible for serious human rights abuses in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic (CAR), Sudan and Mozambique, which include torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings.
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Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/2197 of 13 December 2021 amending Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses

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