The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on two companies that are linked to the Private Military Company “Wagner” (Wagner Group) – Mining Industries SARLU and Logistique Economique Etrangere SARLU . These companies are located in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Logistique Economique Etrangere SARLU (Logistique) is a CAR-based company that in 2021 received hundreds of shipments of heavy materials from LLC Broker Expert , a Russia-based company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin (died in August 2023), the founder of the Wagner Group , the founder of Wagner Group, that has supported Russian interests in Ukraine and throughout Africa.
Mining Industries SARLU (Mining Industries) is a CAR-based mining company. The Wagner Group uses aircraft leased by Mining Industries to move personnel and equipment through CAR and elsewhere in Africa.
On June 20, 2017, OFAC designated the Wagner Group pursuant to E.O. 13660 for being responsible for or complicit in, or having engaged in, directly or indirectly, actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.
