…Manafort signed a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska. In return, the American proposed a wide-ranging political plan to undermine Putin’s opponents in Europe and the United States and in former Soviet republics.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #deripaska #putin #oligarchy
Manafort began working for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire Russian oligarch… Deripaska’s alleged ties to the mafia meant that for some years he was unable to get an American visa. … Like all superrich Russians Deripaska perfectly understood Putin’s requirements. When called upon, you did what the president commanded.
—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
#manafort #deripaska #putin #usa #russia #oligarchy
Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions
Companies partially owned by billionaires closely tied to Putin continue to export their products to Western markets without disruption
A loophole allowing firms to operate in EU if sanctioned individuals hold less than 50% of shares enables oligarchs like Gennady Timchenko, Alisher Usmanov, and Oleg Deripaska to reap profits
#Russianoligarchs #Russiansanctions #Deripaska #Timchenko #Usmanov
Western-sanctioned Russian tycoon Oleg #Deripaska repeated his calls for a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire and slammed #Moscow’s war spending in an interview with Japanese media published Thursday.
"If you want to stop the war, first you need to stop the fire," Deripaska told #Japan’s The Nikkei daily, calling for an "immediate, unconditional ceasefire.”
#Raiffeisen Bank International was warned by the #US Treasury in writing that its access to the U.S. financial system could be curbed because of its #Russia dealings, according to a person who has seen the correspondence.
While the deal linked to Oleg #Deripaska was ditched by Raiffeisen days after the letter arrived, the source said that the U.S. Treasury's concerns over the Austrian bank's business in Russia remain.
US exposes attempted sanctions evasion scheme involving Oleg Deripaska's frozen shares in Austrian co Strabag worth $1.5 billion
Treasury sanctions Russian national Dmitrii Beloglazov, his 2 companies Iliadis & Titul and Deripaska company Rasperia Trading Ltd
Deripaska coordinated with Beloglazov owner of Titul which created subsidiary Iliadis. Iliadis acquired Derpiaska's Rasperia which holds frozen Strabag shares.
#Raiffeisen Bank International AG canceled a complex share deal aimed at bringing capital out of #Russia after scrutiny by regulators.
The planned transaction would have allowed the Austrian lender to repatriate about €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) of retained profits from its Russian unit. It involved the purchase of shares in an Austrian construction company that were previously held by sanctioned businessman Oleg #Deripaska.
Charles McGonigal, Former Special Agent in Charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Sentenced to 50 Months for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions on Russia - in connection to 2021 agreement to provide services to Oleg Deripaska
#charlesmcgonigal #mcgonigal #RussianSanctions #Russia #olegderipaska #deripaska
Former #FBI #spy hunter pleads guilty to working for #Russian oligarch. #CharlesMcGonigal, once special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office, admitted that he took money from Putin crony Oleg #Deripaska. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-agent-mcgonigal-pleads-guilty-russian-oligarch-rcna100073
'Former high-ranking #FBI official Charles McGonigal pleaded #guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiring to violate U.S. #sanctions and to #laundering money by secretly working on behalf of a Russian oligarch (Oleg #Deripaska ) he had been tasked with investigating
Major news sources are skimming the surface of the #McGonigal #Deripaska story. Professor @timothydsnyder - who speaks Russian and Ukranian - does this must-read deep dive:
"We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves.
My latest on Substack:"
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-specter-of-2016
Every American should read this article by noted Yale history professor, Timothy Snyder (see post above). Really excellent. He pulls it all together.
Remember that one time Mitch McConnell staffers lobbied to get sanctions lifted on Oleg #Deripaska so they could build an aluminum plant together in #Kentucky?
That was awesome.
Gifted article—free to you to read. Read it: [The Washington Post] Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated
Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is charged with money laundering and other counts connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
By Shayna Jacobs, Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett
@washingtonpost #fbi #deripaska #charlesmcgonigal @nyfbi #russia #moneylaundering #corruption #traitor
“A former top #FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday.
Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg #Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions.” #Russia #legal
OVERT WARNING TO OLIGARCHS
#Putin according to Financial Times, has “ordered the seizure of a luxury hotel complex” that Deripaska owns in Sochi, a resort city along the Black Sea in Southern Russia.
A Russian court, according to Financial Times, has “ordered the seizure of a luxury hotel complex” that #Deripaska owns in Sochi, a resort city along the Black Sea in Southern Russia.
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