The billionaire is accused of circumventing sanctions.
US prosecutors have filed an indictment against businessman Oleg Deripaska in federal court in Manhattan. He is accused of violating sanctions.
The US Justice Department said Deripaska used the US financial system to maintain three luxury properties and hired a woman to sell a music studio in California for $3.1 million. We are talking about Olga Shrika, she is under arrest.
Deripaska is also accused of organizing the trip of his girlfriend, Ekaterina Voronina, from Russia to the United States in 2020 and 2022, who bore him children there. Charges, in addition to Deripaska and Voronina, were brought against Olga Shrike and Natalya Bardakova in this case.
The statement said Deripaska spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to have his children born in the United States and take advantage of the American medical system and the automatic right to citizenship, reports AP.
In October 2021, employees of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation came with searches to the American homes of Oleg Deripaska, first in Washington, then in New York. Deripaska’s fortune is estimated at almost $17 billion.
In the US, Deripaska was sanctioned for alleged involvement in interference in the US elections in 2016, but the Russian oligarch managed to get his companies removed from the list under President Donald Trump. “Rusal” Deripaska invested in an aluminum plant in Kentucky (a senator from this state voted for the lifting of sanctions). In addition, the Russian oligarch confirmed cooperation with the head of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort.
