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Shavendra Silva

Diplomat · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Shavendra Silva is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Shavendra Lokugan Hewage Chandana SILVA · Shavendra Silva · শাভেন্দ্র সিলভা				[sources]
Other name	Shavendra Lokugan Hewage Chandana SILVA				[sources]
Birth date	1964-06-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Matale · Matale Sri Lanka				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Country of birth	Sri Lanka				[sources]
First name	Shavendra				[sources]
Last name	Silva				[sources]
Middle name	Chandana · Hewage				[sources]
Second name	Lokugan				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16195805				[sources]
Position	Chief of the Defence Staff (2020-) · Commander of the Army (2019-2022)				[sources]
Education	Defence Services Command and Staff College · Sri Lanka Military Academy				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-28	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2023-07-18

Descriptions

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List, 2025-04-09

Sri Lankan general

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Data sources

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets6,876

The United Kingdom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,003

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

UK FCDO Sanctions List5,826

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,863

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,282

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,281

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: NK-ikMVbt5daGgHDprQNu27fw · gb-fcdo-ghr0148 · gb-hmt-16830

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Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United Kingdom	Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · UK		2025-03-24	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Chief of the Defence Staff	2020-01-01	-
Chief of the Defence Staff	2020	-