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In 2018, Viktor
Sheiman was under sanctions under the US and the EU. The United States extended the sanctions until June 2019, believing that Viktor Sheiman became a barrier to democratic processes in Belarus. In February 2018, the EU extended the sanctions on Viktor Sheiman for a year. This provided
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owning another 50%. This company (via
British "Midlands Goldfields Limited") owned 70% of "Zim GoldFields Limited" which operated gold exploration and mining projects in Zimbabwe. Viktor Sheiman visited Zimbabwe at least twice and later reported about the big mining deal with this country. According
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The
Pandora Papers leaks revealed that Sheiman and his family secretly owned an offshore company that was active in dealings with Zimbabwe's state-owned mining company at the same time that Sheiman was negotiating trade agreements between Belarus and Zimbabwe on behalf of the Belarusian government.
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In 2022, Sheiman was blacklisted by Canada. In addition to the countries above, he is also placed on the sanctions list of
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In August 2023, Canada additionally blacklisted Sergei and Olga Sheiman, and Anna Pushkareva, Viktor Sheiman's children and an alleged
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Sheiman has been a close ally of
Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko since Lukashenko came to power in 1994. Sheiman was Belarus’ prosecutor general in 2004. Sheiman has been sanctioned by both the European Union and the United States over the disappearances of Lukashenko's critics.
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875:"Sanctions program: Belarus: Verordnung vom 11. Dezember 2020 über Massnahmen gegenüber Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), Anhang 1 Origin: EU Sanctions: Art. 2 Abs. 1 (Finanzsanktionen) und Art. 3 Abs. 1 (Ein- und Durchreiseverbot)"
466:. Political opposition groups and international human rights organizations accuse Sheiman of organizing "death squads" responsible for killing members of organized criminal groups, opposition politicians and
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constituency, a post he held until 1994. He was also
Secretary of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet for Questions of National Security, Defence and Crime Control. He has been an active supporter of
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banned from entering the
European Union and the United States for allegedly participating in the manipulation of the results of the presidential election; the ban was lifted in 2008.
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Later, Sheiman was again made subject of an EU travel ban and asset freeze, following the crackdown of opposition protests after the 2010 presidential election in
Belarus.
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Viktor
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in Belarus in 1999–2000. Former Secretary of the Security Council. Sheiman remains a Special Assistant/Aid to the President."
635:"Расследование: сын управделами президента Беларуси и почетный консул Александр Зингман занимались добычей золота в Зимбабве"
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since his election in 1994. On 5 August 1994, the day the
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Viktor Sheiman is married, and has a son and a daughter.
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477:. In 2006, he was placed on a
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