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HAI0010Gran Griff#

Entity · designated 2025-07-10 under The Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022 · UN listing · entry last updated 2025-07-10

AddressesHaiti

DetailsType: Gang

IdentifiersUKSL HAI0010. OFSI group 16980. UN ref HTe.001

NamesPrimary name: Gran Griff. Aliases: Baz Gran Grif; Gran Grif de Savien; Savien Gang

SanctionsAsset freeze (indicators: asset freeze). Regime: The Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022. Source: UN. Designated 2025-07-10.

Other informationName of Director(s)/Management: Luckson Elan

Statement of reasonsThe Gran Griff gang, also known as the Savien gang, is the largest and most powerful gang in the Artibonite department. Over the past two years, the gang has been substantially expanding its territorial control, committing serious violations of human rights law, and trafficking weapons and ammunition. The violence is causing people to flee the area and is having an increasingly serious impact on food production, given that the Artibonite is one of the main agricultural departments in the country. Human rights abuses and other serious crimes committed by the gang include extrajudicial killings, rape – including gang rape of children cruel and degrading treatment, robbery, destruction of property, kidnapping, and hijacking of trucks. The gang’s activities have also severely disrupted health services and law enforcement in the area. In particular, the gang has targeted the National Police on several occasions resulting in the death of seven police officers following an attack on 25 January 2023, and the occupation of a local police station in Savien, Petite Riviere commune.

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