The FBI has entered Deripaska’s home in Washington, DC

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting “investigative actions” in a luxury house in the US capital, which is believed to be owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

NBC News first reported that the property was surrounded by FBI agents, and later the bureau confirmed the operation, but did not give anyone’s name or the reasons for it.

A spokesman for the businessman confirmed that “searches are being carried out in homes in New York and Washington, belonging to relatives of Oleg Deripaska on the basis of two court orders related to US sanctions.”

A billionaire, industrial and oil tycoon, Oleg Deripaska is close to President Vladimir Putin and has been on the list of 20 Russian-sanctioned Russian officials since April 2018. The reason is Russia’s interference in the US elections in 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidential vote.

According to a 2017 Washington Post publication, the oligarch’s home on 30th Street is more than 2,100 square meters, about a mile from the Russian embassy and close to the Naval Observatory. USA, where the residence of the vice president of the country is.

Radio Svoboda recalls that the day before the parliamentary elections in September in Russia, supporters of Alexei Navalny published the investigation “Yachts, bribes and a mistress. What is Minister Lavrov hiding.” It alleges that alleged relatives of Russia’s foreign minister used Deripaska’s private planes, homes and hotels, in return for which Sergei Lavrov did him various favors and lobbied for sanctions against the businessman to be lifted.

The name of Svetlana Polyakova, “related to close relations” with the longtime Moscow diplomat, was mentioned. From “Important stories” they also claim that she is “with significant influence in Russia’s foreign ministry” and has business with the ministry. The authors reviewed the profiles of Polina (Polyakova’s daughter) on social networks and found that she had more than once stayed in Deripaska’s hotels and villas.

He controls the giant aluminum producer Rusal through the company En + Group. Both companies were sanctioned by Washington, but then the restrictions remained only on Deripaska himself.

The oligarch tried to condemn the US administration and lift the sanctions, but his case was rejected by the court in June 2021.

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