In a judgment handed down on Wednesday 15 October (Case T-235/25), the General Court of the European Union annulled the European sanctions against Galina Pumpyanskaya, the now estranged wife of the oligarch Dmitry Pumpyanskiy, for the period from 14 March to 15 September 2025.
According to the General Court, the Council committed an error of assessment in including Ms Pumpyanskaya’s name on the lists at issue (Decision 2025/528 and Regulation 2025/527), in so far as the justification for that inclusion was based on the allegation that she benefitted from a person wrongly found to be a “leading businessperson operating in Russia”. The General Court recalls that in September it annulled such a finding in respect of Mr Pumpyanskiy (Case T-541/24).
While the European sanctions against Ms Pumpyanskaya have been annulled for the period from 14 March to 15 September 2025, the Decision (2025/1895) extending the freeze from 15 September 2025 to 15 March 2026, which is not the subject of the appeal, will continue to apply, according to the European Court.
In April, the General Court upheld three appeals by Dmitry Pumpyanskiy, Galina Pumpyanskaya and their son against restrictive measures renewed against them in 2024 for their alleged role in the Russian military invasion of Ukraine (Cases T-272/24, T-1108/23 and T-221/24 - see EUROPE 13613/30).
See the General Court’s judgment: https://aeur.eu/f/iyr (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)