Homes and children: what connects Russian oligarchs caught by US sanctions with America

United States 6 April imposed sanctions against seven Russian businessmen and 17 high-ranking officials from the "Kremlin list." This means that their assets in the United States will be frozen. Some oligarchs from the “Kremlin list” in America live with children and have real estate.

Oleg Deripaska. Photo: RIA News

Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Deripaska takes the 23 line of the Russian list Forbes. His fortune magazine is estimated at 5,1 billion dollars. The main assets of Deripaska are concentrated in the metallurgical, agro-industrial and automotive industries, as well as in the electric power industry.

In 2017 year ForumDaily wrote that Deripaska for 15 million dollars bought luxurious mansion Haft in Washington, near Embassy row. House area 2137 square. with seven bedrooms, a floor of Italian marble and a chandelier that once hung in the Paris Opera, was sold to the widow of a magnate in the discounter area of ​​Herbert Haft.

According to ForbesIn 2006, in the interests of the oligarch, a residential property complex was acquired for $ 5,4 million Greenwich Village in Manhattan (New York). Another building in the Upper East Side (New York) was acquired in 2008 for $ 42,5 million.

And in 2014, Deripaska, as the newspaper writes, bought a stake in 50% in the newspaper Novy Svet, the largest Russian-language publication in the United States.

Photo: RIA Novosti

Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Vekselberg's fortune is estimated at 12,4 billion dollars. Vekselberg is the main shareholder of the Renova group of companies.

As he wrote ForumDaily, Children oligarch Irina Vekselberg and Alexander Vekselberg graduated from Yale University. Alexander works in the USA in the Renova venture fund. Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP). Irina lives in Moscow with her husband, an entrepreneur Salavat Rezbaev, the founder of the company Trilogy Capital Group. Rezbaev - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Irina - his adviser.

In November 2016 of the year, associated with Vekselberg Oerlikon company invested $ 50 million in the construction of a plant for the production of fine metal powders in Plymouth, USA and invested in an industrial 3D printing plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company also has a factory asset. Metco in Michigan, which specializes in the development of technologies and substances for high-tech surface coating.

Also The media wrote that Vekselberg invested in an American company Dresser-randby buying 4,99% stock. But after problems with the sanctions, he sold them in 2015.

In addition, in 2016 year RBC wrote that Investment company Vekselberg Columbus Nova Technology Partners agreed to buy shares in the US Gawker Media. Main asset Gawker Mediaexisting with 2002 of the year - site of the same name GawkerSpecializing in rumors and news of New York. Besides, in Gawker Media includes sites Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Jezebel. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Photo: TASS

Igor Rothenberg

Igor Rotenberg, the son of Arkady Rotenberg, received from his father TPS Real Estate, TEK Mosenergo and Gazprom Drilling, as well as shares in Mostotrest (TFK-Finance was sold in May 2015). The general condition of the Rothenberg family (Arkady, Boris and Igor) in 2014 was estimated at $ 5,55 billion.

All Rothenberg companies have been registered in European countries, but the sanctions have closed the possibility of doing business with the United States to Rothenberg companies. Wrote Forbes, because of the sanctions suffered Rotenberg Bank SMP Bank. International payment systems Visa and MasterCard disconnected the bank from the calculations. In the SMP Bank, at least $ 65 million (2% of assets as of 2013 year) was blocked due to the sanctions.

Recall, the US Treasury introduced the so-called “Kremlin list” in January 2018 of the year. It includes 210 high-ranking officials and big businessmen. In particular, the list included all Russian entrepreneurs, whose wealth exceeds a billion dollars.

The "Kremlin list" was compiled in accordance with the law "On Countering the Opponents of the United States through Sanctions." He was accepted in the United States in the summer of 2017, as a reaction to suspicions about Russia's interference in the US presidential election in 2016.

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