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The United States imposed sanctions on Viktor Vekselberg in relationship with the war against Ukraine. In accordance to the media, law enforcement officers have now appeared on the oligarch’s property.
In accordance to a media report, US law enforcement ransacked the home of a Russian billionaire issue to sanctions imposed for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The proprietor of the home is oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, the NBC Tv set channel claimed. Between other things, law enforcement officers were noticed carrying packing containers from an apartment on exquisite Park Avenue in New York on Thursday (nearby time).
In accordance to information, a raid also took area on a house in the Hamptons, the high-class holiday break location in close proximity to the US metropolis. Both of those houses evidently belonged to Vekselberg, NBC reported, citing Treasury Office documents. In addition, a property on the rich Fisher Island close to Miami, which most likely belongs to the Russian billionaire, was also raided.
In the crosshairs of the US authorities
Vekselberg is the head of the Renova Team, a Moscow-dependent conglomerate. He is just one of the many prosperous Russians who have been sanctioned by the United States. As a final result, his holdings in the United States had been frozen US firms are prohibited from executing company with his organizations.
In Switzerland, the oligarch holds stakes in the industrial groups OC Oerlikon and Sulzer, in the steelmaker Swiss Steel and in the real estate group Züblin.
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