UK Guidance Clarifies How Sanctions Apply to Company Directors
The U.K. this week updated guidance for several of its sanctions regimes to provide more information on its “director disqualification sanctions,” which block designated people from being a director of a U.K. company. The country’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation…
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said the restrictions also prohibit a designated person from “directly or indirectly taking part in or being concerned in the promotion, formation or management of a company.” The U.K.’s Companies House is responsible for “preventing registration” of a sanctioned person as a director of a U.K. company unless the government issues that person a license. OFSI added the language to its guidance for its Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua, Global Human Rights, Global anti-corruption, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Guinea-Bissau sanctions regimes.