Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology" (GosNIIOKhT)

• In forceUK OFSI

  Chemical Weapons

  In this state since

  28 Aug 2026

  Designated

  6 Jan 2021

  Measure

  Asset freeze, Director Disqualification Sanction

  Legal basis

  The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

  Reason given

  The Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Scientific Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology (Gosniiokht) is a state research institute within Russia with responsibility for the destruction of chemical weapon stocks inherited from the Soviet Union. The institute in its original role, before 1994, was involved in the development and production of chemical weapons, including the toxic nerve agent now known as ‘Novichok’. After 1994, the same family who owned the institute took part in the government’s program for destruction of the stocks of chemical weapons inherited from the Soviet Union. The subsequent deployment of a toxic nerve agent of the Novichok group against Alexey Navalny would therefore only be possible because the institute had failed to carry out its responsibility to destroy the stockpiles of chemical weapons. Russia had the technical capability to carry out the attack. The Russian State has previously produced Novichoks and would still be capable of doing so. Within the last decade, Russia has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichok. It is unlikely that Novichoks could be made and deployed by non-state actors (e.g. a criminal or terrorist group). Russia had the operational experience to carry out the attack. Russia has a proven record of state-sponsored assassination. It is highly likely that the Russian state was responsible for the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018 using a similar type of nerve agent. During the 2000s, Russia commenced a programme to test means of delivering chemical warfare agents, including investigation of ways of delivering nerve agents. Russia had the motive and opportunity to carry out the attack. Navalny was a high profile Russian opposition politician who vocally criticised the Russian administration and establishment. He was on Russian territory under surveillance by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation at the time of the attack. As the institute responsible for the destruction of chemical weapons within the Russian Federation, Gosniiokht bears responsibility for the preparation and use of chemical weapons in the attempted assassination of Alexey Navalny.

  Stated by

  UK OFSI Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  First recorded here

  28 Aug 2026

  Listing id

  13975

No ownership verdict was on file for this company on 26 October 2026.

As recorded by the assessment reading taken on 6 September 2026, 17:03 UTC, the newest on or before the date. Only “checked, not found” means a source was read in full and held nothing for the company.

• Whether each listing was in force is rebuilt from what was recorded here: when it was first read, when a source stopped or resumed carrying it, and when its published term ended. A listing in force at an authority before this system first read it is shown from that first read.
• No ownership verdict is kept for this company. Verdicts are kept for companies registered where shareholders are read here: Estonia, Latvia and Poland.

For each source behind this file, the newest read made on or before the date: the version of it that stood.

• EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  Read on 19 October 2026. The publisher dates the file 15 October 2026, 4 days before it was read. 6,234 records read. Publisher's version: globalFileId 185699.

• Malaysia BNM financial consumer alert list

  Read on 19 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 588 records read.

• Malaysia SC investor alert list

  Read on 19 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 1,795 records read.

• OFAC SDN

  Read on 19 October 2026. The publisher dates the file 15 October 2026, 4 days before it was read. 17,556 records read.

• Slovenia KPK business restrictions

  Read on 15 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 4,351 records read.

• Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Read on 19 October 2026. The publisher dates the file 15 October 2026, 4 days before it was read. 7,040 records read.

• Türkiye MASAK asset freezes

  Read on 22 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 2,304 records read.

• UK OFSI Consolidated List

  Read on 8 October 2026. The file carries no date of its own; its newest record is dated 3 June 2026, 127 days before it was read. Newest designation in the file: 2025-12-19. 5,120 records read.

• UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  Read on 19 October 2026. The publisher dates the file 16 October 2026, 3 days before it was read. 5,705 records read.

• US CBP forced-labour orders (WRO & Findings)

  Read on 20 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 63 records read.

• US Consolidated Screening List

  Read on 19 October 2026. No date from the publisher is read for this file, so its age is not known here. 6,474 records read.

Taken

6 September 2026, 17:03 UTC

Methodology

Version 4

Level

Medium

Score recorded

60 of 100

Digest

b25993fa435cb916f366eb777827ba37834998f6A fingerprint of everything the reading says. The same reading always has this digest, and any change in it gives another.

Reading id

64ab3f34-c4fb-4fb0-956d-ed0ebf637db0

Address

https://apolika.com/entities/6a6e75a6-e362-4a31-9028-40d19aed3115/evidence?as_of=2026-10-26The same address gives the same day's file tomorrow. What was recorded after the date is not in it.

As data

https://apolika.com/api/entities/6a6e75a6-e362-4a31-9028-40d19aed3115/evidence?as_of=2026-10-26T04%3A05%3A24.833Z

Made

26 October 2026, 04:05 UTC