On Wednesday 7 June, the General Court of the European Union rejected the appeal lodged by Aleksandr Vasilevich Shakutin against the restrictive measures imposed on him by the EU on 17 December 2020 for his support of the Lukashenko regime in Belarus (see EUROPE B12625A12).
According to the General Court, the factual elements produced by the Council are sufficiently “concrete, precise and concordant” to establish that the Belarusian oligarch was one of the main businessmen operating...