Deripaska sued over the sanctions, but a U.S. judge in June dismissed his lawsuit. Deripaska became widely known in the U.S. for his ties to Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign
chairman who was convicted on fraud charges stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
FBI raids US home of Russian oligarch and
President Putin associate Oleg Deripaska
Deripaska
and other members of Putin's inner circle as well as 12 Russian businesses
connected to them were blacklisted by the Treasury Department in 2018 over
alleged international crimes
The next
year, Donald Trump lifted sanctions on three companies connected to him despite
objections from Congressional Democrats.
FBI raids US home of Russian oligarch and
President Putin associate Oleg Deripaska
At the
time Trump's Treasury Department claimed those companies 'have reduced Oleg
Deripaska’s direct and indirect shareholding stake in those companies and
severed his control.'
Deripaska
is also a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin who's been
accused of helping the Kremlin conduct foreign influence operations.
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