FT: the US Treasury Deripaska is suspected of laundering money for Putin
Office of foreign assets control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury claims that Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska owned and laundered money from Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes Kommersant with link to Financial Times. All confirming the position of the Ministry the facts listed in the letter OFAC sent to the lawyers of the businessman.
"In December 2016, according to reports, is recognized as one of the many people who owns the property and launder money for Russian President Vladimir Putin," the letter reads. It is also reported that in September 2017 Mr. Deripaska has cancelled the IPO of Gas "to cover money laundering of Russian President Vladimir Putin through the Corporation". Based on this, the US Treasury is not going to cancel personal sanctions against Russian businessman.
Myself, Oleg Deripaska called the information OFAC rumors that are not proven and not supported. "They do not represent any information. Just guesses, rumors and chatter," he told the FT. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said to the FT: "It is not true". The U.S. Treasury declined to comment FT about this letter.
we will Remind, in April 2018, RUSAL, En+ and "EvroSibEnergo" Oleg Deripaska was included in the sanctions list of the USA. In January 2019, the restrictions were lifted in exchange for loss of control over the companies by Mr. Deripaska. In July, the company En+ re-registered in the Kaliningrad region.