- 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
- Failed to take action to investigate the case of the unresolved disappearances of Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovski and Dmitri Zavadski in Belarus in 1999-2000. Former Minister of Internal Affairs and also former Head of the President’s Security Service. As a Minister of Internal Affairs he was responsible for the repression of peaceful demonstrations until his retirement on 6 April 2009 for health reasons. Received a residence in the Drozdy nomenklatura district in Minsk from the Presidential Administration. In October 2014, was awarded the Order “For Merit” III degree by President Lukashenka. Since November 2023, Vladimir Naumov has been the owner of a 75 % stake in the company Zorka Food. Zorka Food is registered in Moscow and operates in the Russia-occupied Donetsk region and in the city of Mariupol in Ukraine, exporting grain and feed through the port of Mariupol, supporting Belarus’ involvement in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026