The UK Government imposed asset freezing sanctions against seven individuals and two entities, all based in Russia, targeting directors, deputy directors, and senior scientific staff of SC Signal and the State Research Institute of Military Medicine (GNIII VM), both linked to the previously-designated (October 2020) State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology (GosNIIOKhT), in connection with Russia's undeclared chemical weapons programme and the research, development, and production of Novichok nerve agents and the toxin Epibatidine used in the poisonings of Alexei Navalny and Dawn Sturgess.