{"id":152134,"date":"2025-08-22T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"united-states-lifts-sanctions-on-dana-holdings-updated","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152134\/","title":{"rendered":"United States lifts sanctions on Dana Holdings (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Residential complex Minsk World, a project of Serbia's Kari\u0107 businessmen\n <\/div>\n \n
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August 22, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>The United States has lifted sanctions on Dana Holdings, a real estate development company owned by Serbia\u2019s Kari\u0107 businessmen and registered in Belarus and Cyprus, as well as on its CEO, Serbian and Cypriot national Neboj\u0161a Kari\u0107. The US Office of Foreign Assets Control published the decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minsk City Executive Committee registered Dana Holdings on October 23, 2007. Later, in February 2013, it was incorporated in Cyprus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration of US President Joe Biden imposed sanctions against Dana Holdings on August 9, 2021, the first anniversary of Belarus\u2019 disputed presidential election that sparked mass protests against the Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the US justification of the sanctions, the \u201cconstruction empire\u201d obtained \u201cnumerous extraordinary benefits, including gifts of plots of state land in Minsk, through presidential decrees signed by \u0141uka\u0161enka.\u201d Besides, it allegedly received tax breaks or complete abolition of taxes, as well as state resources for infrastructure work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The justification pointed out that the Kari\u0107 family was close to \u0141uka\u0161enka and rose to prominence funding the regime of Serbia\u2019s Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement also suggested that the company offered employees a day off for participating in a pro-\u0141uka\u0161enka rally in the aftermath of August 9, 2020, and that \u0141uka\u0161enka himself commended the company\u2019s real estate projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sanctions against Dana Holdings have been lifted four days after US President Donald Trump affirmed the importance of releasing 1,300 prisoners from Belarusian jails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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