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Designated itself, so frozen

DesignatedCurrent

About GARANTEX EUROPE OU, assessed under EE number 14850239.

First said on 18 Sept 2026, last confirmed on 26 Oct 2026. It is the current verdict under this rule. A daily run that reaches the same verdict on the same holdings, listings and breaks confirms it. When anything it rests on changes, a new verdict begins at a new address.

The words can stay the same across two verdicts: a verdict is replaced when a holding, a listing, a break or the signed rule table changes, even where its words do not.

What it says

The company is itself listed under this regime, and frozen as a listed party rather than through its owners.

Designated share
Listed itself
Threshold
more than 50%
Effect
Frozen
Chain
Breaks at 1 point
Nearest designated party
The company is itself designated.Found across every list on file, not only those this rule counts.

Notes

  • Natural-person holders are compared with designated persons by name only. A match is reported and never counted, because the registers publish no identifier that could confirm it.

The chain

Holdings the result passes through

None: the company is listed itself, so the verdict does not pass through any holding.

Holdings read

The registers read state no holdings for the chain.

Listed parties in the chain

  • GARANTEX EUROPE OU (EE 14850239) the company itself

    • Not countedOFAC SDN

      Asset freeze under OFAC, CYBER4

      Listed as GARANTEX EUROPE OU

      Not counted here: this list is read under the OFAC 50 percent rule rule.

    • Not countedOFAC SDN

      Asset freeze under OFAC, RUSSIA-EO14024

      Listed as GARANTEX EUROPE OU

      Not counted here: this list is read under the OFAC 50 percent rule rule.

    • CountedUK Sanctions List (FCDO)

      Asset freeze under UK OFSI, Russia

      Listed on 4 May 2022 as GARANTEX EUROPE OU

      Counted under this rule.

Where the chain breaks

The chain could not be followed past 1 point, and past a break nothing is known. This verdict does not rest on the chain, because the company is listed itself; the breaks are kept with it all the same.

  • No holders published: 1

  • No holders published at the company itself

    Estonia e-Business Register (shareholders) holds no shareholder rows for this company. Neither Baltic register publishes the shareholders of a joint-stock company, so this is not evidence that it has none.

What it rested on

Lists this rule reads

  • UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

    Read on 14 Sept 2026; dated 11 Sept 2026 by the publisher.

  • UK OFSI Consolidated List

    Read on 13 Sept 2026; no date of its own, newest record dated 3 Jun 2026.

Shareholder registers

  • Estonia e-Business Register (shareholders)

    File read on 14 Sept 2026; last modified 13 Sept 2026, by the publisher's server. None of its holdings were used.

The rule

Test
UK ownership and control
Threshold
more than 50%
Several designated owners
Not added together, unless the shares are held under a joint arrangement between them or one of them controls another.
A jointly held share
Each joint holder is treated as holding the whole share.
Control
Not assessed. A shareholder register shows shares, not board seats or agreements.
Signed off
On 17 Sept 2026, from texts read on 13 Sept 2026.f3d899fc1d224a36dbf3880253f4312f1c7fcc70e367d56af13ffb8b20bd8c88

Caveats

  • Holdings of different designated persons are not added together unless the shares are subject to a joint arrangement between them or one controls the rights of another.
  • Control without the threshold stake is part of this test and cannot be read from a shareholder register, so an outcome short of the threshold does not mean the company is not controlled.

Texts the rule rests on

  • OFSI, UK financial sanctions general guidance (updated 12 May 2026)

    Section 4.1 (more than 50% of shares or voting rights, or control), 4.1.3 (a designated person owns what it owns jointly with another) and 4.1.4 (holdings of different designated persons not simply aggregated)

  • The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Schedule 1

    Paragraph 2 (each joint holder of a share is treated as holding that share), paragraph 3 (joint arrangements), paragraph 4 (more than 50% of share capital), paragraph 9 (indirect holding through a chain of majority stakes). Each UK regulation this test is applied under was read, and carries the same definition and rules.

This record

Address
This page's address does not change, and the verdict at it is never rewritten. The same record as JSON.
Computed
18 Sept 2026
Evidence file
The company's file for 18 Sept 2026, the day this was first said
Identity
16ad7996675c14b835d922b386b89aa1855a18f240b60e3eafbf6a38ff9ee57fA hash of what the verdict rests on. Each run compares it to decide whether the verdict still stands.