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Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska indicted in US for sanctions violations

2022-09-29T22:17:56.903Z


The United States announced on Thursday (September 29th) that it had indicted Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and two others for setting up...


The United States announced on Thursday (September 29th) that it had charged Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and two others with plotting to obtain US citizenship for his two children, in violation of state sanctions. -United.

Oleg Deripaska, 52, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been under US sanctions since 2018.

He is accused by the US Department of Justice of having, together with Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova, 45, and Olga Shriki, 42, devised a plan to deliver Ekaterina Olegovna Voronina (also known as Ekaterina Lobanova), 33, to the United States twice.

Any child born on American soil automatically acquires American citizenship.

The first attempt in 2020 was successful, but the second in 2022 was a failure and the young woman was denied entry to the United States.

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'As today's indictments reveal, while serving the Russian state and energy sector, Oleg Deripaska sought to circumvent US sanctions with lies and deception to profit from the American way of life. “

, said Lisa Monaco, number two of the ministry.

"Despite Deripaska's continued support for the Russian regime, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on transactions so that his child could benefit from the American health care system and American citizenship"

and he

"mistrusted"

the Russian hospital system, a underlined the Ministry of Justice.

Olga Shriki, who has American nationality, was arrested.

Oleg Deripaska is also accused of having used the American financial system through Olga Shriki and Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova.

In particular, Olga Shriki allegedly facilitated the sale of a music studio in California owned by the oligarch through shell companies in 2019 for more than $3 million, and she allegedly tried to send the money to an account in Russia.

Source: lefigaro

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