Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 14/4/2023 - Sección Legislación
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Sección Legislación
L 101/2
ANNEX
EN
In Annex I to Regulation EU No 269/2014, List of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2 entries 92, 720, 723, 728, 879, 1172, 1348, 1349 to 1359, 1361
to 1364, and 1366 to 1378 are replaced by the following entries:
Persons Name
92.
Arkadii Romanovich ROTENBERG
Gender: male DOB: 15.12.1951
POB: Leningrad, former USSR now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Reasons
Date of listing
Arkady Rotenberg is a prominent Russian businessman who has close personal ties to President Putin. Since March 2014, Rotenberg, or his companies, have received State contracts totalling over USD 7 billion. In 2015, Rotenberg led the annual list of government contracts in terms of value, after being awarded contracts worth RUB 555 billion from the Russian Government. Many of these contracts were awarded without formal competitive processes. On 30 January 2015, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree that awarded to Rotenbergs company, Stroygazmontazh, a state contract for the construction of the Kerch bridge from Russia to the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
15.3.2015
Through these contracts, he has financially benefited from Russian decision-makers responsible for the annexation of Crimea or the destabilisation of eastern Ukraine.
Former owner of the company Stroygazmontazh, which has been awarded a State contract for the construction of the Kerch bridge from Russia to the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea, therefore consolidating its integration into the Russian Federation which in turn further undermines the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Similarly, in January 2017, Stroygazmontazh was awarded the state contract worth RUB 17 billion for the construction of a railway line on the Kerch bridge, which further undermines the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Official Journal of the European Union
Arkady Romanovich ROTENBERG
Identifying information
Owner of two companies, Mostotrest and Stroygazmontazh-Most, designated for their activities undermining Ukrainian sovereignty entities No 43 and 46 in this Annex. In 2019 Rotenberg sold the gas pipeline construction company Stroygazmontazh.
For his involvement in the construction of the Kerch bridge he was awarded the State order Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation in March 2020.
On 30 January 2021, Arkady Rotenberg claimed to be the beneficiary of the so-called Putins Palace in Gelendzhik, which appears in the investigation of Alexei Navalnys Anti-Corruption Foundation.
14.4.2023
He is the chairman of the board of directors of publishing house Prosvescheniye, which has notably implemented the project To the Children of Russia: Address Crimea, a public relations campaign that was designed to persuade Crimean children that they are now Russian citizens living in Russia, and thereby supporting the Russian Governments policy to integrate Crimea into Russia.
