GRU

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 1 authority: UK OFSI. 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 found22 designated individuals recorded in connection with this company: Denis Valeriyevich TYURIN, Igor Valentinovich KOROBOV, Sergey Aleksandrovich GIZUNOV.
• 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.

• UK OFSIActive

  Russia

  Designated 4 Dec 2025 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

Legal name

GRU

Also known as

GRU · Main Directorate · Main Intelligence Directorate · THE MAIN DIRECTORATE OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION +1

Jurisdiction

RU

First recorded here

18 Jul 2026

1. Alias recorded: Гла́вное управле́ние Генера́льного шта́ба Вооружённых сил Росси́йской Федера́ции

   13 Sept 2026 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

2. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Denis Valeriyevich TYURIN

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Anatoliy Sergeyevich KOVALEV

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Aleksey Aleksandrovich POTEMKIN

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Aleksandr Vladimirovich OSADCHUK

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Artem Andreyevich MALYSHEV

   28 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 corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

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

  the main directorate of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation

  Legal name

  Evidence

  17235

  Read 13 Sept 2026

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  gru

  Legal name

  Evidence

  17235

  Read 28 Aug 2026

  Source

  UK OFSI Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  RU

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  17235

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Russia

  Designation

  Evidence

  17235

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  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.

28 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.