#deripaska

Deripaska’s DC and NY mansions raided!

So...Merrick Garland HAS been on the job...just not broadcasting it.

Nothing fishy about doing it late at night — or on a Sunday.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trump: “Russia has never tried to use leverage over me”. Doing it willfully?

The Trump administration on Sunday formally lifted sanctions on three Russian firms with links to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including Rusal, the world's second-largest aluminum producer.

On Dec. 19, the Treasury Department notified Congress of its intent to lift the sanctions saying the companies were sanctioned because of their ownership and control by Deripaska, not for the conduct of the companies themselves.

The Treasury Department said that Rusal and EN+ Group, the holding company of the Russian aluminum giant, as well as energy firm JSC EuroSibEnergo had made significant restructuring and corporate governance changes to diminish Deripaska's ownership and sever his control to allow them to meet the criteria to be delisted within the 30 days.

What’s to stop Deripaska from colluding with other shareholders?

Under the arrangement, Deripaska's ownership in EN+ drops from roughly 70% to roughly 45%, and he can vote only 35% of his shares, according to documents explaining the terms of the deal. But his shares are spread out to various entities, including to a foundation he started two decades ago, his ex-wife and father-in-law as well as the sanctioned Russian bank, VTB. The terms of the agreement say voting rights of these shares will be given to third parties with no ties to Deripaska.

Companies Oleg owns or controls still sanctioned:

B-Finance Ltd.

Basic Element Limited

Russian Machines

GAZ Group

And then there’s this. 

“How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns” tRUmp 🇷🇺, Steve Mnuchin 🇷🇺 and Mitch McConnell 🇷🇺

Russian Tycoon Deripaska Sues Ex-Banker Tinkov for Defamation

Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska has sued bank founder Oleg Tinkov, seeking 2 billion rubles in damages ($32.5 million) for alleged defamation, media reported Monday.  Both Deripaska and Tinkov are among the few influential Russian business owners to have spoken candidly about the negative impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  Deripaska filed civil lawsuits against Tinkov — who is…

FBI officers confiscated property of Russian oligarch Deripaska

The searches were necessary to find information about how and whether Deripaska managed cash flows after the sanctions. Deripaska’s property confiscated in the US / Photo: Collage: Today The FBI seized many luxury items from two mansions of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in the United States. The property was confiscated as part of an investigation into possible sanctions evasion. The…

London, occupied the villa of Oleg Deripaska. Activists wanted to use it as a home for …

By Luca Marchetti “This property has been released”. In London, a group of activists occupied the villa of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch and founder of the aluminum giant Rusal. Demonstrators stormed the property of a Russian tycoon, previously seized by the British authorities to impose Western sanctions on the Russian oligarchy, and stormed the villa, waving from the balcony of the…