- Programme
- Belarus
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 16 March 2022 on measures against Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), article 12 (Financial sanctions) and 25 para. 1 (Travelban), annexe 13
- Stated grounds
- Key person in the unresolved disappearances of Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovski and Dmitri Zavadski in Belarus in 1999-2000. Former Commander of the Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA). Businessman, Head of “Honour”, the MoIA’s Association of Veterans of Special Forces of the MoIA. He was identified as commanding an OMON unit during the brutal crackdown on protesters that took place in Belarus in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Dzmitry Paulichenka promoted Lukashenka ahead of the February 2025 presidential election in Belarus. He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026