OFAC removes Russia-related individuals, vessels and entities from the SDN List
Sanctions-screening and vessel-screening teams must remove the delisted Russia-related parties from active blocking filters or keep cleared parties wrongly blocked
Change
On 24 June 2026, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) deleted multiple Russia-related individuals, two cargo vessels and three companies from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List under Executive Order 14024.
Why it matters
The deleted parties are no longer SDNs under EO 14024; transactions and voyages involving them are no longer blocked on the basis of these entries, and previously blocked property is unblocked through OFAC's standard process. Operators must update screening inputs to stop blocking the delisted names, vessels and entities. The entries named as Linked To — Sovcombank, Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation, Vladimir Olegovich Potanin and State Transportation Leasing Company (GTLK) — are the parents these parties were associated with and are not cleared by these deletions; they remain separate screening targets.
Implications
- — Sanctions-screening teams at financial institutions must remove the delisted individuals (BELOUS, German Valentinovich; KLYUKIN, Mikhail Vasilyevich; KREMLEVA, Irina Vladimirovna; NIKOLAEV, Viktor Andreevich; CHERKASOVA, Nadia Narimanovna; POTANIN, Ivan Vladimirovich; SMIRNOV, Maxim Yuryevich) and the two Turkish entities (IDA Asansor; Dein Danismanlik) from name-match filters and release related blocked property through OFAC's process — keeping them in active filters wrongly blocks transactions OFAC no longer prohibits.
- — Sanctions-screening teams must keep the parent entities named as Linked To in the deleted entries — Sovcombank, Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation, Vladimir Olegovich Potanin and State Transportation Leasing Company (GTLK) — as active screening targets, because the deletions clear only the named individuals and vessels, not the parents they were associated with.
- — Vessel-screening teams at shipping companies, charterers and port agents must remove IMO 9945136 (VYACHESLAV ARSHINOV) and IMO 9945124 (GENNADY EGOROV) from blocked-vessel lists — keeping the IMO numbers blocked wrongly holds voyages OFAC no longer prohibits.
Who is affected
- — Sanctions-screening teams at financial institutions
- — Vessel-screening teams at shipping companies, charterers and port agents