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Undated: Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Дерипа́ска; born 2 January 1968)[3] is a Russian oligarch.[4][5] He is the founder of Basic Element, one of Russia's largest industrial groups, and Volnoe Delo, Russia's largest charitable foundation. Until 2018,[6] he was the president of En+ Group, a Russian energy-related company, and United Company Rusal, the second largest aluminium company in the world.[7]

He was once Russia's richest man, worth $28 billion, but lost a substantial part of his fortune amid the 2007–08 financial crisis. As of August 2018, his wealth was estimated by Forbes at $3.3 billion.[10]

Deripaska is also known for his connection to American political consultant Paul Manafort, who has been convicted on charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and failure to report foreign bank accounts, which stemmed from Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Deripaska employed Manafort from at least 2005 to 2009.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska


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June 5: "Of all the big Russian businessmen, he's one of the most fun, because he's very direct," says Anders Aslund, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. "Deripaska is very much in your face. He's straightforward. He tells you what he wants to say. [He's] one of the few big Russian businessmen you can actually discuss and debate with."

The AP reported in March that Manafort wrote to Deripaska in 2005 to propose "that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit Vladimir Putin's government."

Deripaska, for his part, sued the AP, saying the story falsely implied that the Russian billionaire was paying Manafort to further the interests of Putin's government.

The AP stands by its story and has refused to run a retraction.
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/05/531588442/russian-businessman-with-ties-to-ex-trump-campaign-official-comes-under-scrutiny


October 2: Did Manafort Use Trump to Curry Favor With a Putin Ally?

Emails turned over to investigators detail the former campaign chair's efforts to please an oligarch tied to the Kremlin.

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On the evening of April 11, 2016, two weeks after Donald Trump hired the political consultant  Paul Manafort to lead his campaign’s efforts to wrangle Republican delegates, Manafort emailed his old lieutenant Konstantin Kilimnik, who had worked for him for a decade in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

“I assume you have shown our friends my media coverage, right?” Manafort wrote.

“Absolutely,” Kilimnik responded a few hours later from Kiev. “Every article.”

“How do we use to get whole,” Manafort asks. “Has OVD operation seen?”

According to a source close to Manafort, the initials “OVD” refer to Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and one of Russia’s richest men. The source also confirmed that one of the individuals repeatedly mentioned in the email exchange as an intermediary to Deripaska is an aide to the oligarch.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/emails-suggest-manafort-sought-approval-from-putin-ally-deripaska/541677/


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Undated: In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him [Oleg Deripaska] and 23 other Russian nationals.[136][137] In the statement from the United States Department of the Treasury it was stated that Deripaska "has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering". According to the US treasury statement there are allegations that Deripaska ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.[138]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska

February 8: Russia’s opposition leader [Alexey Navalny] claims to have figured out the Trump campaign’s Kremlin connection
https://qz.com/1202800/alexey-navalny-says-oleg-deripaska-transmitted-trump-campaign-information-from-paul-manafort-to-the-kremlin/


February 14: Deripaska’s ties with Manafort date back to 2005, when they reportedly signed a $10 million contract. But things went sour, and Deripaska sued Manafort and his associate Rick Gates earlier this year for $25 million in damages over the failed business dealings.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-youtube-instagram-kremlin-oligarch_us_5a83f9f0e4b0adbaf3d8eb6f


March 5: Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska — a one-time business partner and employer of Paul Manafort, the embattled former campaign chairman for US President Donald Trump — was one of hundreds of wealthy individuals who have applied for Cypriot nationality. His application was approved last year.

Originating more than 30 years ago in the Caribbean, such schemes — known in the industry as “Golden Visas” — have spiked in popularity in the past decade and are now offered in more than 20 countries. They have been criticized for allowing wealthy people, including those who have obtained their wealth illegally in countries with weak legal systems, special access to life in developed countries that is not available to others.
https://www.occrp.org/en/goldforvisas/russian-billionaire-linked-to-trump-manafort-has-new-cyprus-passport


March 30: A private jet belonging to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska landed in the US shortly after a meeting between former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Russian military intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.

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The news sheds light on a pivotal time in the 2016 US election, during which Manafort offered "private briefings" about the Trump campaign to Deripaska in a likely effort to resolve a financial dispute.

Manafort, Kilimnik, and Deripaska are at the center of an FBI inquiry into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 race in his favor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/oleg-deripaska-jet-arrived-in-us-after-manafort-kilimnik-meeting-2018-3


April 6: Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank.

Oleg Deripaska is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13661 for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a senior official of the Government of the Russian Federation, as well as pursuant to E.O. 13662 for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy.  Deripaska has said that he does not separate himself from the Russian state.  He has also acknowledged possessing a Russian diplomatic passport, and claims to have represented the Russian government in other countries.  Deripaska has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering.  There are also allegations that Deripaska bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman, and had links to a Russian organized crime group.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338


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April 7: Five things to know about Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/382111-five-things-to-know-about-deripaska

April 9: When the United States hit Russian oligarchs and senior political officials with new sanctions on Friday, the move had a pretty swift effect on at least one of its targets.

Oleg Deripaska described the sanctions on him and companies associated with him as “groundless, ridiculous and absurd.” However, on Monday his aluminum-producing giant, Rusal, lost half its value.

Rusal’s shares dropped 50.4% on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index today. In Moscow, Rusal’s stock lost a third of its value in Monday morning trading. Also on the Moscow Exchange, Nornickel—the nickel and palladium operation in which Deripaska holds a quarter stake—lost 16% of its value before recovering slightly.

Meanwhile, EN+—the Deripaska-controlled holding company that co-owns Rusal—was down around 22% on the London Stock Exchange on Monday morning. And Glencore (glncy, +0.94%), the commodity trading and mining giant that also happens to be a big shareholder in Rusal, and its biggest customer, lost more than 3% on the LSE.
http://fortune.com/2018/04/09/rusal-oleg-deripaska-sanctions-stock/


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May 24: Russian metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska stepped down as a director of his aluminum firm Rusal as part of a choreographed series of steps which he hopes will persuade the U.S. government to rescind sanctions that have crippled his businesses.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/sanctioned-tycoon-deripaska-resigns-as-director-of-his-firm-rusal-idUSKCN1IQ04V


September 20: How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team
http://time.com/5401645/putins-oligarchs/ http://time.com/5401645/putins-oligarchs/


November 4: Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/world/europe/oleg-deripaska-russia-oligarch-sanctions.html

December 5: A key Democratic senator is warning the Trump administration not to lift sanctions against a Russian oligarch or the companies he controls.

Oleg Deripaska holds large stakes in the Russian aluminum giant Rusal and the automobile conglomerate GAZ Group.

New Jersey's Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in a letter to the Treasury Department that it would face strong opposition in Congress if it waives sanctions against Deripaska and the companies.

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“How the Treasury Department manages this delisting exercise will shape our perceptions about the administration’s seriousness in implementing the Russian sanctions regime,” Menendez wrote.
https://www.voanews.com/a/top-senate-democrat-warns-trump-not-to-lift-sanctions-against-russian-billionaire-/4688948.html

December 18: A sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side has been frozen as part of a hard-core battle between the US government and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska ....

US officials say Deripaska, an aluminum billionaire, is close both with Russian mob leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin — and that he is on the sanctions list because he is allegedly involved in murder, money-laundering, bribery and racketeering.

Deripaska also had President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort — who has been convicted of crimes including money-laundering and who is cooperating with US special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe — on his payroll for years.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/feds-freeze-russian-oligarchs-assets-upper-east-side-mansion/ 

December 29: Paul Manafort pressured by Russians to pay back debt while Trump’s campaign chair, Time magazine says
https://fox2now.com/2018/12/29/paul-manafort-pressured-by-russians-to-pay-back-debt-while-trumps-campaign-chair-time-magazine-says/

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January 9: The New York Times issued a correction Wednesday to a report that said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort asked for campaign polling to be passed on to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

“A previous version of this article misidentified the people to whom Paul Manafort wanted a Russian associate to send polling data,” the Times said in its correction Wednesday. “Mr. Manafort wanted the data sent to two Ukrainian oligarchs, Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, not Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-corrects-report-on-which-oligarchs-paul-manafort-wanted-to-give-polling-data


January 17: Rebuking Trump, over 130 House Republicans challenge plans to lift sanctions against Putin ally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/01/17/rebuke-trump-administration-more-than-republicans-break-ranks-oppose-treasury-plan-lift-sanctions-against-putin-ally/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e600a3593146


January 27: The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, an ally of President Vladimir Putin.

Curbs on aluminium giant US Rusal, En+ Group and JSC EuroSibEnergo were lifted after Mr Deripaska ceded control.

The oligarch has been linked to the probe into alleged Russian interference in US elections, and Democrats wanted the sanctions to continue.

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But the Treasury Department said curbs on oligarch himself remained in force.

The companies were blacklisted last April when the Trump administration targeted people and businesses it said had profited from a Russian state engaged in "malign activities" around the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47023004


January 28: A member of President Donald Trump’s transition team was named as a board member of a company owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska the day after the Trump administration lifted sanctions against Deripaska’s companies.

As part of the deal to lift the sanctions in what was stated to be an effort to dilute Deripaska’s control, EN+, the parent of his aluminum company Rusal, announced seven new directors, four of them American or British. They include former Deutsche Bank executive Christopher Bancroft Burnham, who served on Trump’s State Department transition team.

A majority of House Republicans voted with Democrats to maintain the sanctions against Deripaska’s three companies. But by then the measure had already failed in the GOP-controlled Senate

The binding agreement obtained by the Times also included sanction relief provisions that could potentially free Deripaska from “hundreds of millions of dollars in debt,” the newspaper reported.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-insider-board-member-deripaska_us_5c4f81a4e4b0d9f9be683192


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January 29: Belarusian 'sex coach' says she was warned to keep quiet about oligarch Oleg Deripaska

A Belarusian model who claimed to have information on Moscow's attempts to interfere in US elections told CNN she had been ordered by Russian security agents to keep silent about her dealings with a Russian billionaire linked to the former chairman of Donald Trump's campaign.

Anastasia Vashukevich, a self-styled "sex coach," made international headlines after she was arrested in Thailand last year and claimed to have obtained secret recordings during an affair with oligarch Olig Deripaska which allegedly shed light on US President Donald Trump's links to Russia.

Deripaska denies any affair with Vashukevich, but he remains a subject of major political interest in US political circles. Trump has denied claims that his campaign colluded with Russians.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/29/europe/russia-anastasia-vashukevich-us-election-intl/index.html


January 29: These are Mitch McConnell’s nefarious links to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

There always seems to be more to the story when it comes to Trump and Russia, and this time it involves Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.

Monday evening brought a new twist in that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and all kinds of Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/these-are-mitch-mcconnells-nefarious-linked-to-putin-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-and-russian-companies/


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January 29: Is Oleg Deripaska the missing link in the Trump-Russia investigation?

The Russian oligarch could face greater scrutiny after disclosure that Paul Manafort discussed Ukraine peace plan with associate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/29/oleg-deripaska-paul-manafort-trump-russia-investigation


January 30: The wife of a Justice Department official who worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign told Congress in 2018 that one of her tasks at the opposition research firm was to research President Donald Trump’s children, including their business activities and travel.

Nellie Ohr, a former contractor for Fusion GPS, also told lawmakers during an Oct. 19 deposition that she recalls that Christopher Steele gave her husband, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, materials from the infamous anti-Trump dossier funded by Democrats.

Ohr said during the testimony that Steele, who like her was a contractor for Fusion GPS, hoped that her husband would pass the materials to the FBI.

“My understanding was that Chris Steele was hoping that Bruce could put in a word with the FBI to follow up in some way,” Ohr testified to members of the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/30/nellie-ohr-ivanka-trump-fusion-gps/


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January 29: Three senior House Democrats have demanded Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin turn over documents that would show how his department decided to lift financial sanctions on three companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Reps. Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters and Eliot Engel told Mnuchin in a letter Tuesday they want a broad array of material that may range from secret intelligence reporting to other records such as meeting minutes and agendas, emails and texts, and calendar invitations.

The letter comes two days after Treasury announced the sanctions were being lifted on the grounds that Derapaska’s direct and indirect shareholding stake in the three companies had been reduced to the point that he no longer has control over them. The lifting of the sanctions was opposed by members of both parties on Capitol Hill over concerns that the Trump administration was not being tough enough on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies, including Deripaska.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/house-democrats-demand-treasury-records-that-led-to-lifting-sanctions-on-russian-firms-2019-01-29


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