Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/345 of 18 February 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/345
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Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, in section A (‘Natural persons’), entries number 80 and 105 are replaced by the following:

Names (Transliteration into Latin script)

Names

Identifying information

Reasons for listing

Date of listing

‘80.

Alexander Valerievich OBRAZTSOV*

Александр Валерьевич ОБРАЗЦОВ

(Russian spelling)

Position(s): Deputy head of the IK-3 penal colony

DOB: 1980-1990

POB: Russia

Nationality: Russian

Gender: male

Address: Priuralisky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, 629420

Alexander Valerievich Obraztsov is deputy head of the IK-3 penal colony.

In that position, he is directly responsible for the conditions of imprisonment in the IK-3 penal colony. The IK-3 penal colony, commonly known as the “Polar Wolf”, is the location where detained opposition politician Alexei Navalny died under unknown circumstances. The conditions of imprisonment in the IK-3 penal colony included physical violence such as torture and withholding warm water and adequate clothing in winter, medical assistance and food and water.

Therefore, Alexander Valerievich Obraztsov is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary detentions, and the systematic violation of freedom of opinion and expression.

22.3.2024

105.

Vladimir Sergeevich SHVEDOV*

Владимир Сергеевич ШВЕДОВ

(Russian spelling)

Position(s): Head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Execution of Criminal Sentences in the Russian Ministry of Justice

DOB: 26.10.1980

POB: Moscow, Russia

Passport number: 4506085659

Tax identification number: 773320017740

Nationality: Russian

Gender: male

Address: Moscow City, Russian Federation

Associated individuals: Vsevolod Lvovich Vukolov

Associated entities: Russian Ministry of Justice

Vladimir Sergeevich Shvedov is a high-level Russian official. He is head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Execution of Criminal Sentences in the Russian Ministry of Justice.

In that position, as he leads the state policy in the field of execution of criminal sentences and considers citizens’ appeals, he was responsible for the execution of prison sentences of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

Therefore, Vladimir Sergeevich Shvedov is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary detentions, and the systematic violation of freedom of opinion and expression.

22.3.2024’.