All the sanctions lists, country by country

Why each one earns its place, in one line:

• EU consolidated (freeze list); directly binding on every EU business; no threshold, no intent required.
• EU 833/2014 annexes; military end-users, banks, defence and oil sector: Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom Neft and a thousand more that do not appear on the freeze list. Most free checkers skip this set; we load it from the consolidated EUR-Lex text.
• UN Security Council; reaches you through EU implementation.
• US OFAC SDN; one dollar through a US correspondent bank is enough.
• UK (FCDO); not EU law, but your bank screens it, and it lists Gulf intermediaries the EU has not.
• Switzerland (SECO); largely mirrors EU measures; relevant with any Swiss nexus.
• Canada and Australia (DFAT); national designations the EU lacks, across supply chains you may actually use.
• Ukraine State Register (NSDC); binding in Ukraine, and Ukrainian designations of shadow-fleet vessels and Russia-bound suppliers have repeatedly preceded EU and UK listings.
• Russia: Rosfinmonitoring register; Russia's own national register of terrorists and extremists, 0 people and companies blocked from operating inside Russia. Not EU law; but it is the list Russian banks screen their customers against daily, and for a Russian counterparty it is authoritative about their position inside Russia. Loaded straight from the Rosfinmonitoring site, with birth details and tax/registration numbers (ИНН/ОГРН) where published.
• Netherlands national terrorist list; the Sanctieregeling terrorisme 2007 designations, directly binding in and through the Netherlands. Small (~117 parties) but the list Dutch banks and logistics screen on and DNB has fined institutions for missing. Loaded daily from the official spreadsheet, each entry with its Staatscourant reference.
• US export-control and enforcement registers; the Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR Debarred, Unverified List, Nonproliferation Sanctions, Military End Users, Sectoral Sanctions, CMIC and more, all from the US Consolidated Screening List. Each register means something different — an export licence problem is not an asset freeze — so every result names its register and explains exactly what a hit there means.

Each result names the list it came from and what a hit there means for you; because "listed" means something different on each of them. Run a name now; nothing is stored and nothing is emailed.

The practical version of the trap:

• Rosneft is not on the EU freeze list; its EU listing sits in the 833/2014 trade annexes. A check of "the EU list" returns nothing for the most-sanctioned oil company in the world.
• Wissol, Abel Logistics, Adora Enterprise; real counterparties of European traders; are designated by the UK, not the EU. EU-list-only tools miss them; the bank's screening does not.
• Shadow-fleet vessels appear on the Ukrainian register and the UK list months before anywhere else.

Commercial aggregators sell "one database" by combining these lists. The honest free version of that is what this site runs: 24 lists, one search, the ground shown per hit.

• Every list, including the ones others skip. We have not found another free checker that searches the EU trade-restriction annexes, the Ukrainian register, Russia's own register, India's UAPA schedules, the Dutch national list, the French national freeze register, the Polish national list, the FBI wanted list and the US export-control registers alongside the standard five. If you find one, tell us and we will link it.
• Never "clean". A no-hit says: these spellings did not appear in these lists on this date. Every tool that says "not sanctioned" is promising something a name search cannot deliver; ownership above 50% is invisible in any name.
• Near matches shown, not hidden; with the reason, so you can dismiss a namesake yourself instead of trusting a filter.
• The document, not just the answer. What your bank, auditor or lawyer asks for is the dated record of which list versions you searched; that is the €29 product, not a subscription.
• Built by a broker whose own bank reported counterparties as sanctioned while the screening tools of the day found nothing on them; the list scope is not a feature list, it is the incident report.

Why are these not in the free check? Each earns its place by answering the question an EU importer actually asks. The lists in the check do that; the ones below answer narrower questions; and saying so honestly is worth more than a database row that implies coverage. Where one of these starts mattering to enough readers, it goes in; the way the Australian and Ukrainian lists did.

Statuses were tested from our EU-hosted infrastructure on 13 September 2026; the Dutch, French and Polish lists were added to the daily check on 19 September 2026. "Not machine-loadable" is a statement about our servers, not about the list: a reader in the country concerned may reach these sources without trouble. Where a country's designations are the UN's, a UN search is a complete answer — that is what UN implementation means. The honest gaps are the national lists of China, Japan, South Korea, the Gulf, Taiwan and Belgium: real lists, real names, and no sanctioned route for us to load them daily. They are the first candidates the moment a publisher offers a file.

The short table of what a hit means for you:

• EU (freeze + 833 annexes): prohibited, today, regardless of size and intent.
• UN: implemented in EU regulations; in practice you meet it on the EU list.
• US: dollars, US persons, US-origin goods or software anywhere in the chain.
• UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Ukraine: not binding on you as law; but your bank screens the UK list, and counterparties inside those jurisdictions are bound and will ask you about it.

That is why the check searches them all: not because all of them bind you, but because the one that stops your payment is not always the one that binds you.