In the US, assets and mansions of a Russian billionaire in Manhattan and Washington have frozen

In the United States, in connection with the sanctions, the assets of businessman Oleg Deripaska, including mansions in Manhattan in New York and Washington, froze, reports The New York Post, citing unnamed sources.

In particular, the authorities froze a five-story townhouse on 64-th Street, which Deripaska bought in 2008 for 42,5 million dollars, indicates the publication, referring to real estate registry data. From the same data it follows that the former wife of Roman Abramovich Darya Zhukova lives with this address, specifies Rain.

According to the NYPost, Deripaska, despite the sanctions and freezing of his property, agreed on these tenants with the authorities.

Abramovich recently gave Zhukovoy property on 92 million dollars, reminds edition, referring to registry data. They reported the divorce in August 2017. The representatives of Deripaska and Zhukova did not respond to the publication’s request for comment.

Deripaska and related companies fell under US sanctions on 6 April. The billionaire was accused of acting in the interests of high-ranking Russian officials, and was suspected of laundering and other violations.

Then he called the accusations in his address ridiculous, but began negotiations with the US Treasury on the lifting of sanctions. The restrictions imposed prohibit American individuals and legal entities from doing business with Deripaska and his companies.

Recall that in August US Treasury reports how US sanctions affected Russian oligarchs. The report with the findings of the department published on its website. The open part of the document describes the results achieved by the United States due to sanctions in general, including the loss of Russian oligarchs and the economy. Its program of sanctions, the US Treasury calls one of the most "active and influential."

The report was published under the Sanctions Act, which President Donald Trump signed on August 2017. Now the Ministry of Finance has described exactly how these sanctions are and what they led to. At the same time, the ministry notes that it has compiled a document based on open data.

According to the report, in all since 2017, the US administration has imposed sanctions on 215 organizations and individuals associated with Russia. As a result, Russian assets were blocked on 100 million dollars.

The most painful US sanctions imposed 6 on April of this year - against a number of Russian businessmen and related companies. Among them were Viktor Vekselberg (ninth place on the Russian Forbes list) and Oleg Deripaska (19-number on the Russian Forbes list).

Oleg Deripaska was included in the US sanctions list along with the En + Group, the Kuban agricultural holding, Basic Element, the off-shore structure B-Finance, through which Deripaska owns part of the shares in En +, GAZ Group, Eurosibenergo, and Russians machines "and RUSAL.

Deripaska lost half of his fortune, according to the report of the Ministry of Finance. Russian Forbes 19 April estimated his fortune at 6,7 billion dollars. 21 in August, according to Forbes, which considers the wealth of the world's richest people in real time, Deripaska’s fortune was 3,3 billion dollars.

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