- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Igor Chaika is the younger son of Yuri Chaika, the ex-Prosecutor General and the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District. Igor Chaika have amassed a huge business empire relying on state contracts and thanks to his father’s position. He also conducts business activities in the occupied Crimea. Since 2022, Igor Chaika has been the Chairman of the Public Council under Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian federal executive body responsible for rendering state services and managing state property to support and develop international relations between the Russian Federation and the member-states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and other foreign countries. In March 2025, Chaika was appointed Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo. Therefore, Igor Chaika is supporting materially and benefiting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. Furthermore, he is associated with Yury Chaika and Rossotrudnichestvo.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026