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The United States on Wednesday&nbsp;sanctioned&nbsp;nearly&nbsp;400&nbsp;entities and individuals for enabling Russia&rsquo;s prosecution of its illegal war.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this action, the Department of State is imposing sanctions on more than&nbsp;120&nbsp;individuals and entities.&nbsp;&nbsp;Concurrently, the Department of the Treasury is&nbsp;designating&nbsp;more than 270&nbsp;individuals and entities.&nbsp;&nbsp;For information about Treasury&rsquo;s actions, please see their press release.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Department of Commerce is&nbsp;also&nbsp;adding&nbsp;40&nbsp;entities to its Entity List.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Department of State&rsquo;s designations aim to disrupt sanctions evasion and target entities in multiple third countries,&nbsp;including the People&rsquo;s Republic of China (PRC), India,&nbsp;Malaysia, Thailand,&nbsp;T&uuml;rkiye,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;United Arab Emirates.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Department is also&nbsp;designating&nbsp;several senior Russian Ministry of Defense officials&nbsp;appointed earlier this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;Additional&nbsp;designations target Russia&rsquo;s military-industrial base, including military repair facilities,&nbsp;producers of&nbsp;advanced technologies, and&nbsp;entities supporting&nbsp;the Belarus-Russia&nbsp;defense relationship.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Department also continues to target subsidiaries of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.&nbsp;&nbsp;
All targets are being&nbsp;designated&nbsp;pursuant to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/04/19/2021-08098/blocking-property-with-respect-to-specified-harmful-foreign-activities-of-the-government-of-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order (E.O.) 14024</a>&nbsp;which authorizes sanctions with respect to specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.&nbsp;
The United States will continue to use all tools at its disposal to disrupt support for Russia&rsquo;s military-industrial base and curtail the Kremlin&rsquo;s ability to exploit the international financial system and generate revenue in furtherance of its war against Ukraine.&nbsp;&nbsp;We continue to stand in solidarity with&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;in defending&nbsp;its&nbsp;homeland from Russia&rsquo;s aggression.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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India based firms and individuals facing sanctions to name few:
ASCEND AVIATION INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED&nbsp;(ASCEND AVIATION)&nbsp;is an India-based company that&nbsp;sent over 700 shipments to Russia-based companies between March 2023 and March 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;These&nbsp;shipments included&nbsp;over $200,000 worth of CHPL items, such as U.S.-origin&nbsp;aircraft&nbsp;components.&nbsp;
VIVEK KUMAR MISHRA&nbsp;is&nbsp;an Indian national and&nbsp;the&nbsp;co-director and partial shareholder of ASCEND AVIATION.&nbsp;
SUDHIR KUMAR&nbsp;is&nbsp;an Indian national and&nbsp;the&nbsp;co-director and partial shareholder of ASCEND AVIATION.&nbsp;
MASK TRANS&nbsp;is an India-based company&nbsp;involved in the supply of over $300,000 worth of CHPL&nbsp;items&nbsp;such as aviation components to Russia-based&nbsp;and&nbsp;U.S.-designated&nbsp;S 7 ENGINEERING LLC from June 2023 to at least April 2024.
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">TSMD GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">(TSMD GLOBAL) is an India-based company that shipped&nbsp;at least&nbsp;$430,000&nbsp;worth of CHPL items to Russia-based companies, including&nbsp;ELEKTRON KOMPONENT and&nbsp;the following&nbsp;U.S.-designated&nbsp;companies:&nbsp;LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY&nbsp;VMK,&nbsp;ALFA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY,&nbsp;and JOINT STOCK COMPANY AVTOVAZ.&nbsp;&nbsp;These shipments, which&nbsp;occurred&nbsp;between July 2023&nbsp;and March&nbsp;2024, included&nbsp;U.S.-&nbsp;and EU&nbsp;origin&nbsp;BIS CHPL Tier 1 and 2&nbsp;items such as&nbsp;electronic integrated circuits,&nbsp;central processing units,&nbsp;and other fixed capacitors.&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">FUTREVO<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">&nbsp;is an India-based company&nbsp;involved in the supply of over $1.4 million worth of CHPL&nbsp;items&nbsp;such as electronic components to&nbsp;Russia-based and&nbsp;U.S.-designated LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY SMT-ILOGIC, the manufacturer&nbsp;of&nbsp;Orlan drones with&nbsp;Russia-based and U.S.-designated&nbsp;SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER.&nbsp;&nbsp;The shipments were&nbsp;from January 2023 to at least February 2024.
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October 31, 2024 | 17:55 IST