Deripaska supports Putin's regime in Russia, but he wanted his own children to be born in the USA despite the sanctions and, together with his accomplices, organized a whole scheme for this.
Deripaska in circumventing the sanctions imposed against him in 2018. If the court finds the businessman guilty, he faces up to 20 years in prison, the US Ministry of Justice said.
The indictment says that Deripaska violated sanctions by hiring assistants who organized various services in his interests in the US. . He operated under the alias Oleg Muhamedshin.
Deripastha's accomplices were a former employee of the Basic Element investment company, who lives in New Jersey, Olga Shriki and Russian Natalia Bardakova. Shrike, for example, helped Deripaska sell a music studio in California for $3.1 million in 2019, which he owned through a series of shell companies. Nataliya Bardakova handed Olga Shrika, who has American citizenship, various orders from the oligarch. For example, in 2018-2020, she asked to buy an iPhone, as well as send flowers and gifts to the businessman's friends in the USA and Canada.
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In addition, Shriki and Bardakova helped Kateryna Voroninii (aka Kateryna Lobanova), whom the investigators call the mother of Deripaska's two children. In 2020, they helped her move from Russia to the United States so that she could give birth to Deripaska's child there.
“Despite Deripaska's continued support for the Russian regime, he financed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of operations so that his child could benefit from US health care and birthright US citizenship. Despite Deripaska's constant support of the Russian regime, Deripaska did not believe in the safety of the Russian hospital system,” the US Ministry of Justice said in a statement.
This alone cost approximately $300,000. All expenses were paid by Deripaska, which is also a violation of sanctions. The father's name is not indicated in the birth certificate, but the child received the patronymic Olegovych and a similar surname “with a couple of changed letters” (“Deribasco”).
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This year, Voronina tried to re-enter the US to give birth to another child, but she was denied entry after questioning. At the same time, she gave false statements to officers of the US Department of Homeland Security in order to hide the connection with the billionaire.
Deripaska, Bardakov and Shrike are charged with one count of conspiracy to violate and evade US sanctions, which is a violation The Law on International Emergency Economic Powers, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Olga Shriki was detained in the morning of September 29.
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