Leonid Ivanovich PASECHNIK

PersonBorn 15 Mar 1970Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

“Elected leader” of the so-called “Luhansk People's Republic”.

Sanctioned · Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT, UK OFSI, EU, OFAC
Listed by 5 authoritiesUA
6
Sanctions
Own listings
0
Companies
Roles recorded
0
Designated
Of those companies
1
Countries
Connections
1
Identifiers
Documents
6
Sources
17 names on file
Listed in their own right6

Named directly by Australia DFAT, EU, OFAC, Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions6 active

  • Switzerland SECOActive

    Situation in Ukraine

    Designation date not published by this authority · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  • Australia DFATActive

    Autonomous (Ukraine)

    Designation date not published by this authority · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  • UK OFSIActive

    Russia

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  • EUActive

    UKR

    Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  • OFACActive

    UKRAINE-EO13660

    Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

  • OFACActive

    RUSSIA-EO14024

    Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

Companies & roles

No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.

On the record

Name
Leonid Ivanovich PASECHNIK
Also known as
PASECHNIK, Leonid Ivanovich · Leonid PASECHNYK · Leonid Ivanovych PASICHNYK · Leonid Ivanovich PASICHNIK
Date of birth
15 Mar 1970
Place of birth
Voroshylovhrad, UKRAINE
Nationality
UA
Position
“Elected leader” of the so-called “Luhansk People's Republic”.
First recorded here
7 Aug 2026

From Wikidatacommunity-edited

Russian politician and head of the Lugansk People's Republic

Q43590358 on Wikidata ↗

Positions held

  • Head of the Luhansk People's Republic2017–present
  • Minister of State Security2014–present

Matched to this person by a reviewer on birth date and name. Wikidata is edited by its community, not by the authorities that list this person; nothing here changes the record above.

Exposure

High risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments92

Sanctioned by 5 authorities: OFAC, EU, Australia DFAT, UK OFSI, Switzerland SECO. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Not scored

Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Jurisdiction

Not scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of Ukraine. Separately, 14 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in Ukraine — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source