EU General Court Rejects Former Ukrainian Minister's Damages Claim Over Sanctions Listings

The EU General Court recently rejected a claim from former Ukrainian Minister of Revenues and Duties Oleksandr Klymenko looking for over $53,000 in reputational damages and over $2.1 million -- plus around $536 a month -- in damages stemming from his sanctions listing, according to an unofficial translation. Klymenko was listed under the EU's Ukraine misappropriation of state funds regime from 2015 to 2021.

All of Klymenko's listings were annulled by the General Court or the European Court of Justice on appeal, and he no longer is sanctioned. However, in the Feb. 1 decision, the court rejected the claimant's damages claim since it was brought too late over the 2015 and 2016 acts; the EU's error was not serious enough over the 2017 and 2020 acts to warrant a damages award; and for the 2021 act, Klymenko did not sufficiently establish the extent of the damages.