UK Adds 3 to Anti-Corruption Sanctions List, Corrects 2 Under Cyber Sanctions Regime

The U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation in a pair of Feb. 10 notices added three entries to its global anti-corruption sanctions regime and corrected two entries under its cyber sanctions list. Listings for Vasil Kroumov Bozhkov, Delyan Slavchev Peevski and Ilko Dimitrov Zhelyazkov -- all Bulgarian nationals -- were added to the global anti-corruption restrictions, subjecting the individuals to an asset freeze and travel ban.

The move was made in coordination with the U.S. to "root out corruption in Bulgaria," the U.K.'s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said. Peevski is a former member of parliament and media mogul. Zhelyazkov is a former national security official and board member of Bulgaria's largest state energy company. Bozhkov is a gambling magnate and Bulgaria's richest man.

Under the cyber sanctions, OFSI corrected the listings for Mikhail Iskritskiy and Dmitry Pleshevskiy. The agency changed Iskritskiy's date of birth and corrected the alternate names Pleshevskiy uses.