{"raw_record_id":"7bcb7773-987e-4b31-94eb-24c822274f51","external_id":"member:OJ:L_202601843:2075","record_hash":"7bc316ba88f2316873e1a0719c6f84292513c5f6d20c7ef821c25d7903e10560","raw_record":{"gender":"male","source":"EUR-Lex","aliases":["Ruslan Georgievich AREFYEV","Руслан Георгиевич АРЕФЬЕВ"],"reasons":["Ruslan Arefiev is a Russian banking executive serving as President-Chairman of the Management Board of CMRBank, a financial institution active in the occupied Ukrainian territories subject to Union restrictive measures, and as a member of the Board of Directors of CMRBank Abkhazia. He previously held senior positions at the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB).","Ruslan Arefiev plays a key role in integrating the illegally occupied Ukrainian territories into Russia’s financial system. From 2014 onward, through his leadership roles at RNCB and later CMRBank, he is accused of organising and expanding bank branches in the occupied Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya.","As head of banks supervised by the Central Bank of Russia, he has overseen institutions implementing Kremlin-directed financial measures, including “rublisation”, as well as the replacement of Ukrainian banking infrastructure and the integration of occupied territories into Russian payment and settlement systems. These actions enabled Russian authorities to consolidate their administrative, economic, and military control over the occupied regions of Ukraine.","Therefore, Ruslan Arefiev is supporting the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. Furthermore he is responsible for implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, or stability or security in Ukraine."],"legal_act":{"oj_id":"202601843","title":"Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1843 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine","act_number":"2026/1843","regime_name":"Russia territorial integrity / Ukraine","program_code":"EU-269-2014","expected_rows":216,"amendment_date":"2026-07-23"},"birth_date":"1974-03-20","name_lines":["Ruslan Georgievich AREFIEV","a.k.a. Ruslan Georgievich AREFYEV","Russian: Руслан Георгиевич АРЕФЬЕВ"],"row_number":"2075","birth_date_text":"20.3.1974","date_designated":"2026-07-23","identifying_information":["Function: President-Chairman of the Management Board of CMRBank; Member of the Board of Directors of CMRBank Abkhazia","DOB: 20.3.1974","Nationality: Russian","Gender: male","Tax Identification Number: 502770344505","Passport No: 4518402005"]},"snapshot_id":"d6cd161d-dc71-4c05-9aab-61f272bfd9ff","snapshot_sha256":"228f94f5a8b7c2776fa28d9b41accd4a22670ebb880f751b1b155e2d9726a349","fetched_at":"2026-07-24T10:49:42.476221+00:00","source_name":"EUR-Lex","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/","document_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202601843"}