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Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes
The Confederation can adopt coercive measures to enforce sanctions that have been decided by the United Nations Organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe or by Switzerland's most important trading partners and which serve to ensure compliance with international law, in particular respect for human rights (Art. 1, Para. 1 Embargo Act). The Federal Council is responsible for enacting the coercive measures (Art. 2, Para. 1 Embargo Act).
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| Publisher: | State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) · Switzerland The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs is the Swiss governments center of competence for economic, labour and trade matters. | ||||||||
| Collections: | in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default · Sanctioned Securities | ||||||||
| Information: | www.seco.admin.ch | ||||||||
| Source data: | www.sesam.search.admin.ch · XML | ||||||||
| Tags: | list.sanction · issuer.west · sector.maritime | ||||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: daily · every 2 hours | ||||||||
| Last processed: | 2025-07-06 20:09:02 · v. 20250706200902-mfp | ||||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 19.34 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 526.23 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 3.65 MB | |
source.xml | Source data | 37.09 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 24.05 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 2.61 MB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
This dataset consolidates entities targeted by the following sanctions programs, policy regimes or sub-lists:
| ID | Title | Issuer | Target countries |
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[SECO-CDI] | Former Measures Against Ivory Coast | SECO Switzerland | Côte d’Ivoire |
[SECO-LIBERIA] | Former Measures Against Liberia | SECO Switzerland | Liberia |
[SECO-MALI] | Former Measures Against The Republic Of Mali | SECO Switzerland | Mali |
[SECO-YUGO] | Former Measures Against Yugoslavia | SECO Switzerland | Yugoslavia |
[SECO-BRUS] | Measures Against Belarus | SECO Switzerland | Belarus |
[SECO-BURUNDI] | Measures Against Burundi | SECO Switzerland | Burundi |
[SECO-GUATEMALA] | Measures Against Guatemala | SECO Switzerland | Guatemala |
[SECO-GUINEA] | Measures Against Guinea | SECO Switzerland | Guinea |
[SECO-BISSAU] | Measures Against Guinea Bissau | SECO Switzerland | Guinea-Bissau |
[SECO-TALIBAN] | Measures Against Individuals and Groups Associated with the Taliban | SECO Switzerland | Afghanistan |
[SECO-LIBYA] | Measures Against Libya | SECO Switzerland | Libya |
[SECO-MYANMAR] | Measures Against Myanmar | SECO Switzerland | Myanmar |
[SECO-NICARAGUA] | Measures Against Nicaragua | SECO Switzerland | Nicaragua |
[SECO-NORTHKOREA] | Measures Against North Korea | SECO Switzerland | North Korea |
[SECO-HAMAS] | Measures Against Persons and Organisations Supporting Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad | SECO Switzerland | Palestine |
[SECO-AFGH] | Measures Against Persons And Organizations With Links To Usama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda Or The Taliban | SECO Switzerland | Afghanistan |
[SECO-ISIL] | Measures Against Persons, Groups, Undertakings and Entities Associated with ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida | SECO Switzerland | |
[SECO-SOMALIA] | Measures Against Somalia | SECO Switzerland | Somalia |
[SECO-SOUTHSUDAN] | Measures Against South Sudan | SECO Switzerland | South Sudan |
[SECO-SUDAN] | Measures Against Sudan | SECO Switzerland | Sudan |
[SECO-SYRIA] | Measures Against Syria | SECO Switzerland | Syria |
[SECO-CAR] | Measures Against The Central African Republic | SECO Switzerland | Central African Republic |
[SECO-DRC] | Measures Against The Democratic Republic Of Congo | SECO Switzerland | DR Congo |
[SECO-IRAN] | Measures Against The Islamic Republic Of Iran | SECO Switzerland | Iran |
[SECO-IRAQ] | Measures Against The Republic Of Iraq | SECO Switzerland | Iraq |
[SECO-VEN] | Measures Against Venezuela | SECO Switzerland | Venezuela |
[SECO-YEMEN] | Measures Against Yemen | SECO Switzerland | Yemen |
[SECO-ZIM] | Measures Against Zimbabwe | SECO Switzerland | Zimbabwe |
[SECO-HAITI] | Measures In Relation To Haiti | SECO Switzerland | Haiti |
[SECO-MOLDOVA] | Measures In relation To Moldova | SECO Switzerland | Moldova |
[SECO-UKRAINE] | Measures In Relation To The Situation In Ukraine | SECO Switzerland | Russia |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Foundation against Terrorism | Legal entity | ||
| Ricardo Rafael Méndez-Ruiz Valdés | Person | Guatemala | |
| MD Miranda | Vessel | ||
| Seabass | Vessel | ||
| Wall | Vessel | ||
| Zambra | Vessel | ||
| Tiburon | Vessel | ||
| Onyx | Vessel | ||
| Kruger | Vessel | ||
| Zangazur | Vessel | ||
| Immanuel | Vessel | ||
| Avior | Vessel | ||
| Caria Ka | Vessel | ||
| Genji | Vessel | ||
| Gurudev | Vessel |
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