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Financial Sanctions Notice Global Human Rights 28 March 2025 (Correction)

Published byExternal Relations
TypeSanctions
Date published
28 March 2025

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Introduction 

1. On 24 March 2025 and 27 March 2025 the UK Government updated the UK Consolidated List and the UK Sanctions List to reflect changes to those persons designated under the Global Human Rights (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (the 'UK Regulations').

2. The Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Implementation of External Sanctions) (Jersey) Order 2021, made under the Sanctions and Asset-Freezing (Jersey) Law 2019 ('SAFL'), links to the UK Regulations.

3. Any changes to asset-freeze designations made under the UK Regulations are effective immediately by virtue of the ambulatory provisions in Jersey's sanctions legislation.

4. Notices were published on the Jersey Gazette to advise of these changes. The Jersey Gazette notice published on 24 March 2025 contained an error to one entry.

Notice summary

5. This notice and Annex provide corrected details of those entries made under the UK Regulations on 24 March 2025 and amended on 27 March 2025.

6. Find full details of the correction in the Annex to this notice.

7. For the avoidance of doubt, the following entries made under the UK Regulations continue to be subject to an asset freeze:

  • Jagath JAYASURIYA (UK Consolidated Group ID:16833)

  • Wasantha KARANNAGODA (UK Consolidated Group ID: 16831)

  • Vinayagamoorthy MURALITHARAN (UK Consolidated Group ID: 16834)

  • Shavendra SILVA (UK Consolidated Group ID:16830)

What you must do  

8. You must:  

  • immediately check whether you maintain any accounts or hold any funds or economic resources for the persons set out in the Annex to this Notice.

  • freeze such accounts, and other funds or economic resources without prior notice and without delay.

  • refrain from dealing with the funds or assets of making them available (directly or indirectly) to such persons unless licensed by the Minister for External Relations ('MER').

  • report any findings to MER, together with any additional information that would facilitate compliance with SAFL.

  • provide any information concerning the frozen assets of designated persons that MER may request. Information reported to MER may be passed on to other regulatory authorities or law enforcement.

9. Failure to comply with sanctions legislation or to seek to circumvent its provisions is a criminal offence.

Further information

10. Find guidance on unfreezing assets for delisted persons or entities.

11. Further information on sanctions can be found on Government of Jersey and Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) websites.

12. Jersey guidance on the Global Human Rights sanctions regime is available at JFSC Sanctions by country and category.

13. A copy of the UK Regulations can be obtained from legislation.gov.uk. Other relevant information about this regime can be found on financial sanctions targets by regime on GOV.UK.

14. The UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK.

15. The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation Consolidated List on GOV.UK.

Enquiries 

16. Non-media enquiries, sanctions compliance reporting, and licence applications should be emailed to the Financial Sanctions Implementation Unit at sanctions@gov.je.

Annex

17. Annex to Financial Sanctions Notice Global Human Rights 28 March 2025

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Financial Sanctions Notice Global Human Rights 28 March 2025 (Correction)
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