The FBI searches the Washington home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, linked to Putin

The FBI searched on Tuesday the home in Washington DC of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, linked to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, US media pointed out.

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The television network NBC News was the first to report the search, after speaking with an FBI spokesman, who did not specify the reasons.

Deripaska is an energy sector magnate related to Putin and one of the Russian figures sanctioned in April 2018 by the US Treasury Department, who accused him of bribery and threatening competing businessmen, among others.

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The Treasury said at the time that the oligarch had “bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman and had links to a Russian organized crime group.”

Deripaska He also has financial ties to Paul Manafort, the former head of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign who was convicted of fraud as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the so-called Russian plot.

Manafort was one of the people from Trump’s environment who were indicted in the framework of those investigations for his consulting work in Ukraine.

During the process against the former campaign manager, judicial documents came to light, which detailed that Manafort received a loan of 10 million dollars from Deripaska in 2005.

The mogul sued the United States government over the sanctions imposed on him in 2018, but a federal judge dismissed the case last June.

According to NBC, the US authorities have been repeatedly denying him a visa from the country in recent years because of his alleged ties to organized crime.

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