In March and May 2014, the Australian Government announced it would impose targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against particular individuals and entities in Russia and Ukraine. A link to our previous blog post on this is here. On 19 June 2014 the list of designated persons and entities was updated to include a Ukraine List. Some 50 individuals and 11 entities have been named in the Ukraine List, which can be viewed here. As…

Australia announced on 21 May 2014 that it will expand financial sanctions and travel bans in relation to the situation in Ukraine. On 19 March 2014 Australia announced it would impose financial sanctions and travel bans against 12 individuals. The latest May announcement adds another 38 individuals, as well as 11 entities, to the designated persons list and brings the total number of individuals subject to the measures now at 50. Neither round of designations…