States have imposed sanctions against Russians and companies supposed to help Deripaska unfreeze assets worth $1.5 billion.
The United States has imposed sanctions against a network that allegedly helped Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska gain access to a frozen $1.5 billion. This was reported by the press service of the US Treasury Department on Tuesday, May 14.
In June 2023, Deripaska agreed with the owner of a Russian financial services company Title Dmitry Belloglazov agreed to sell fixed shares of oligarchs in a European company.
Within a few weeks after this the company Title create a financial services subsidiary Iliadswhich in early 2024 acquired the Russian investment holding company Rasperia Trading Limited, which owns Deripaska’s frozen shares.
So, the Russian oligarch and his henchman tried to remove the fixed shares from the previously imposed restrictions.
In this regard, the United States blocked all property and assets belonging to Belloglazov, companies IliadsRasperia Trading Limited and Titlelocated in the United States or owned by American citizens.
Let’s recall that earlier the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International refused an agreement with Deripaska to buy shares in the construction company Strabag, which would allow the bank to withdraw its income from Russia.
On February 15, Ukraine announced suspicions against Deripaska and detained two of his top Ukrainian managers who supplied Russia with raw materials for the production of ballistic missiles. Iskander.
Source: korrespondent
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