Htoo Group of Companies

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID

MYA0029

OFSI group ID

14140

Designation type

Entity

Date designated

2 September 2021

Last updated

9 April 2025

Regimes

• The Myanmar (Sanctions) Regulations 2021

Designation sources

• UK

Sanctions imposed

• Asset freeze
• Director Disqualification Sanction

Official reasons

• The Htoo Group of Companies is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by U Tay Za, who is an involved person. Htoo Group of Companies contributed funds to the Tatmadaw in 2017, at a fundraising event for the Rakhine clearance operations held by Commander in Chief, Min Aung Hlaing. There are reasonable grounds to suspect that these funds contributed to serious human rights violations and ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Further and/or additionally, Myanmar Avia Export Ltd, a subsidiary of Htoo Group of Companies has connections to the Myanmar military, and has been responsible for brokering aircraft deals and arms with Russia, which, could have been used in serious human rights violations, including killings, arbitrary detention and torture in the Rakhine state and during the 2021 military coup.

Other information

• The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Addresses

• Lines: No 5 Pyay Road
• Lines: Hlaing Township
• Lines: Yangon
• Country: Myanmar

Parent companies

• Htoo Group of Companies