Main Intelligence Directorate

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 2 authorities: US CSL (EL), OFAC. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords foundOwns or controls 4 designated companies: INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION CENTER FOR GEOPOLITICAL EXPERTISE, INFOROS, OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOI OTVETSTVENNOSTYU NEOBIT.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundRussia is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section IV: “High-risk third countries which are not identified as being subject to calls for action or increased monitoring by the FATF, but whose membership in that international standard-setter is suspended”. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• US CSL (EL)Active

  Entity List (EL) - Bureau of Industry and Security

  Designated 4 Jan 2017 · US Consolidated Screening List

• US CSL (EL)Active

  Entity List (EL) - Bureau of Industry and Security

  Designated 4 Jan 2017 · US Consolidated Screening List

• OFACActive

  RUSSIA-EO14024

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  NPWMD

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  CAATSA - RUSSIA

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  CYBER2

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

Main Intelligence Directorate

Also known as

MAIN INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE · Main Intelligence Directorate · Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlenie · GRU +4

Jurisdiction

RU

Address

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Frunzenskaya nab., 22/2, Moscow, 119160

First recorded here

19 Jul 2026

1. Subsidiary recorded: IA INFOROS, OOO

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Subsidiary recorded: OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOI OTVETSTVENNOSTYU NEOBIT

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Subsidiary recorded: INFOROS

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Subsidiary recorded: INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION CENTER FOR GEOPOLITICAL EXPERTISE

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Sanction listed: US CSL (EL) — Entity List (EL) - Bureau of Industry and Security

   28 Aug 2026 · US Consolidated Screening List

6. Sanction listed: OFAC — RUSSIA-EO14024

   7 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

6 companies, 5 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Frunzenskaya nab., 22/2, Moscow.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  main intelligence directorate

  Legal name

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  RU

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — RUSSIA-EO14024

  Designation

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — NPWMD

  Designation

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — CAATSA - RUSSIA

  Designation

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — CYBER2

  Designation

  Evidence

  21343

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  US CSL (EL) — Entity List (EL) - Bureau of Industry and Security

  Designation

  Evidence

  EL-c5640d6a3bc9ab12e4feb54af79f0d417475cc8a68e816b4b20b2e09

  Read 28 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  US Consolidated Screening List

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

14 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.