Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘316.

Andrey Nikolaevich TROSHEV

(a.k.a. Andrei Mykolayvych TROSHEV)

Андрей Николаевич ТРОШЕВ

Position(s): Retired colonel, Founding member and Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group;

Rank: Retired Colonel;

Call sign: Siedoy;

Date of birth: 5.4.1953;

Place of birth: Leningrad, former USSR (now Russian Federation);

Nationality: Russian;

Relatives/Associates: Dimitriy Utkin (Wagner Group Founder); Andrey Bogatov (Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group), Aleksandr Sergeevich Kuznetsov (Commander of the 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group);

Gender: male

Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group, which operates in Syria and trains and directs Syrian forces. The Wagner Group also supports the Assad regime and fights alongside regime-affiliated militias and the Syrian army.

Andrey Troshev is directly involved in the military operations of the Wagner Group in Syria. He was particularly involved in the area of Deir ez-Zor. As such, he provides a crucial contribution to Bashar al-Assad’s war effort and therefore supports and benefits from the Syrian regime.

13.12.2021

317.

Andrey Mikhailovich BOGATOV

(a.k.a. Andrei Mychailovych BOGATOV)

Андрей Михайлович БОГАТОВ

Position(s): Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group;

Call sign: Brodiaga;

Wagner group ID: M-1601;

Date of birth: 14.6.1964;

Place of birth: Stary Oskol , Belgorod region , former USSR (now Russian Federation);

Nationality: Russian;

Relatives/Associates: Dimitriy Utkin (Wagner Group Founder); Andrey Nikolaevich Troshev (Founding member and Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group), Aleksandr Sergeevich Kuznetsov (Commander of the 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group);

Gender: male

Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group, which operates in Syria and trains and directs Syrian forces. The Wagner Group also supports the Assad regime and fights alongside regime-affiliated militias and the Syrian army.

Andrey Bogatov commands the operations of the Wagner Group and is directly involved in the military operations of the Wagner Group in Syria. He was particularly involved in the battle of Palmyra. As such, he provides a crucial contribution to Bashar al-Assad’s war effort and therefore supports and benefits from the Syrian regime.

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Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘79.

Velada LLC

OOO Велада

Address: Ochakovskoye Shosse, Dom 28, Building 2, Local 3, Room 8, Moscow, 119530, Russian Federation;

Date of creation: 29.6.2015

Velada LLC is a private company that is involved in the oil and gas sector in Syria.

In December 2019, the Syrian parliament approved a contract granting Velada LLC the right to develop oil and gas in Syria, including in oilfields in the regime-controlled areas in Northeast Syria and a gas field north of Damascus. Thus, it benefits from or supports the Syrian regime.

13.12.2021

80.

Mercury LLC

OOO Меркурий

Address: Leninsky Prospekt, Dom 137, Building 1, Local 2, Room 5, Moscow, Russian Federation

Mercury LLC is a private company involved in the oil and gas sector in Syria.

In December 2019, the Syrian parliament approved a contract granting Mercury LLC the right to develop oil and gas in Syria, including in oilfields in the regime-controlled areas in Northeast Syria and a gas field in the north of Damascus. Thus, it benefits from or supports the Syrian regime.

13.12.2021

81.

Evro Polis LLC

OOO Евро Полис

Address: Ulitsa BratevGozozankinykh, Dom 2B, Pomeshchenie 3.1., Krasnogorsk, 143409, Russian Federation;

Relatives/Associates: General Petroleum Corp.

Evro Polis LLC is a private company linked to the Wagner Group in Syria, involved in the mining, oil and gas sectors in Syria.

Evro Polis LLC is used as a front for the Wagner Group in Syria. It has signed a number of contracts with the Syrian regime, through the state-owned General Petroleum Corp., under which it receives 25 % of the proceeds from the production of oil and gas in fields captured by the Wagner Group. Thus, it benefits from or supports the Syrian regime.

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