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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
-- 2017 --
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.
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.
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
April 7: Five things to know about Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/382111-five-things-to-know-about-deripaska
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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/
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.
“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/
-- 2019 --
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.
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/
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 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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