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ACCOUNTABILITY ACTIONS TO COUNTER GLOBAL CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Fact Sheet
Office of the Spokesperson
December 9, 2024
On International Anti-Corruption Day and on the eve of Human Rights Day the
United States is taking the following actions to promote accountability for
perpetrators of corruption and human rights abuse around the world.
The Department of State is designating 14 individuals, including immediate
family members for involvement in significant corruption and one official for
his involvement in a gross violation of human rights, pursuant to Section
7031(c) of the annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related
Programs Appropriations Act (“Section 7031(c)”), rendering them ineligible for
entry into the United States. The Department of State is also further taking
steps to impose visa restrictions on dozens of individuals pursuant to multiple
policies under section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Additionally, on the anniversary of President Biden issuing Presidential
Proclamation 10685, the Department has taken action under this authority to
restrict the visas of individuals who have enabled, facilitated, or otherwise
been involved in significant corruption and their immediate family members.
Concurrently, the United States, in close coordination with the United Kingdom,
is sanctioning nine individuals and 19 entities comprising a global corruption
network based in Zimbabwe under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program and three
individuals and entities in Yemen and Syria connected to human rights abuses
under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program and the Syria sanctions program.
For more information about Treasury’s action, please see their press release.
ACTIONS TAKEN TO PROMOTE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CORRUPTION
North Macedonia
Artan Grubi, Former Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia
Enver Bexheti, Judge for North Macedonia Court of Appeals
* Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the Department of State is publicly designating
Artan Grubi and Enver Bexheti for their involvement in significant corruption
by accepting bribes to undermine judicial processes tied to the criminal
conviction of Sasho Mijalkov, director of North Macedonia’s Administration
for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK). Mijalkov was designated in 2022
for significant corruption under Section 7031(c), and OFAC sanctioned him
pursuant to E.O. 14033. As part of this action, Grubi’s immediate family
members are also designated.
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Kevin Kedi, Councilman for Rongelap Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall
Islands (RMI)
* Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the United States is publicly designating Kevin
Kedi for his involvement in significant corruption by accepting articles of
monetary value in exchange for his backing of proposed legislation while
serving as a councilman. Kedi accepted a cash bribe in exchange for his
support of a bill, then under consideration in the RMI legislature, to create
a semi-autonomous region in the RMI.
Sri Lanka
Kapila Chandrasena, Former CEO of Sri Lanka Airlines
* Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the Department of State is publicly designating
Kapila Chandrasena for his involvement in significant corruption. Chandrasena
accepted a bribe while serving in his capacity as Sri Lankan Airlines CEO in
exchange for ensuring Sri Lanka purchased Airbus aircraft for over market
value. As part of this action, his immediate family members are also
designated.
Udayanga Weeratunga, Former Ambassador to Russia
* Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the Department of State is publicly designating
Udayanga Weeratunga for his involvement in significant corruption. Weeratunga
orchestrated and personally benefitted from a corrupt scheme involving the
procurement of MiG aircraft for the Sri Lankan Air Force. As part of this
action, his immediate family members are also designated.
Transnational Corruption Network
The United States designated the following individuals and entities under E.O.
13818 (Global Magnitsky) for their connection to corruption or corrupt actors
related to Zimbabwe:
* Nine individuals and 19 entities, for their connection to the Kamlesh Pattni
(Pattni) gold and diamond corruption network in Zimbabwe. Pattni first came
to the world’s attention as a result of the infamous Goldenberg scandal in
Kenya in the 1990s, wherein he was accused of manipulating Kenyan export
incentives and corrupting senior Kenyan government officials. Although Pattni
denied any wrongdoing, he fled Kenya and soon shifted his attention to
Zimbabwe, where he befriended then-President Robert Mugabe and reestablished
a scheme similar to the one he ran in Kenya. Pattni, as featured in public
reporting and elsewhere, has enlisted a range of couriers and supporters to
engage in export incentive fraud and bribery to enable his illicit profiting
from the exportation of gold and diamonds from Zimbabwe. This action was
taken in close coordination with the United Kingdom, which concurrently
designated Kamlesh Pattni, a UK citizen, and additional individuals.
ACTIONS TAKEN TO PROMOTE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND UNDERMINING
DEMOCRACY
Global
* Misuse of Commercial Spyware: Pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of State is taking additional
steps to promote accountability for over 20 individuals involved in the
misuse of commercial spyware, or their immediate family members.
* Transnational Repression: Pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act, the Department of State is taking further action under
the Khashoggi Ban visa restriction policy to promote accountability for
transnational repression. To date, this Administration has taken steps to
impose visa restrictions for over 100 individuals or their family members
from Belarus, Hong Kong, Iran, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Sudan, and Venezuela who have been involved in transnational
repression against dissidents or their family members, including harassment
over social media platforms or other digital means, the misuse of INTERPOL
red notices, forced repatriation or kidnappings abroad, kidnapping plots
including of a U.S. citizen, and murder, among other actions.
* Wrongful and Abusive or Unjust Detentions: Pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of State is creating
new visa restriction policies to promote accountability for abusive detention
practices around the world. The first policy expands on existing visa
restrictions for individuals involved in the wrongful detention of U.S.
nationals, now allowing the Department of State to impose visa restrictions
on their family members. The second policy seeks to promote accountability
for the abusive or unjust detentions of foreign nationals.
Indonesia
Alpius Hasim Madi, Deputy Koramil Commander
* Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the Department of State is publicly designating
Alpius Hasim Madi for his involvement in a gross violation of human rights,
namely the extrajudicial killing of Yeremia Zanambani in Papua in 2020.
Russia
Pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C), the Department of State is announcing steps to
impose visa restrictions on 17 Russian officials and Russia-appointed proxy
authorities for undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, or
political independence through sham elections held in occupied Ukrainian
territories.
Syria
The United States re-designated Fawaz al Akhras, a resident of the United
Kingdom and the father-in-law of Bashar al Assad, pursuant to E.O. 13894 section
1 (i)(E) for materially assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial, material,
or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Bashar
al Assad. The United States designated Bashar al Assad pursuant to E.O.’s 13572
and 13894 in 2011 and 2020, respectively, in relation to the Government of
Syria’s perpetration of serious human rights abuses against the Syrian people
and Bashar al Assad’s actions obstructing, disrupting, or preventing a ceasefire
or a political solution to the Syrian conflict. As has been documented by the
U.S. Department of State and non-governmental organizations throughout the
duration of the Syrian conflict, Bashar al Assad’s government perpetrated
serious human rights abuses in Syria, including failing to investigate
extrajudicial killings by regime security forces, use of torture and sexual
violence in detention facilities, use of enforced disappearances and arbitrary
arrest of political dissidents, withholding of medical attention in detention
facilities, denying international monitors access to detention facilities,
denying detainees access to a fair or timely trial, seizure of land or property,
disrupting humanitarian access to opposition areas, and transnational repression
of political activists abroad.
West Bank
Pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C), the Department of State is taking steps to
impose visa restrictions on seven individuals involved in undermining peace,
security, or stability in the West Bank, including through committing acts of
violence or taking other actions that unduly restrict civilians’ access to
essential services and basic necessities.
Yemen
The United States is sanctioning the following individual and entity under E.O.
13818 (Global Magnitsky) for their connection to serious human rights abuse in
Yemen:
* Abdulqader Hasan Yahya al-Murtadha (al-Murtadha), head of the Houthi National
Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs (HNCPA), and one Houthi entity, the HNCPA.
Al-Murtadha, in his role as the head of the HNCPA, has been directly
implicated in torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading
treatment or punishment of detainees in the Houthi-run “prison” system. The
Houthi-run “prison” system continues to detain individuals exercising their
human rights and fundamental freedoms, including journalists, human rights
defenders, political opponents and NGO, UN, and U.S. locally employed staff,
among others.
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