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Home of influential Russian oligarch searched in New York

'02.09.2022'

Nadezhda Verbitskaya

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Federal agents were spotted on the morning of September 1 searching an apartment in a high-rise building in Manhattan, as well as an estate in the Hamptons. Authorities say this is linked to a Russian oligarch whose yacht was recently confiscated. yahoo news.

Homeland Security and FBI agents with NYPD detectives were seen with boxes during a search of Duck Pond Lane in Southampton, New York, and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Records show the facilities are owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, a billionaire and close ally of President Vladimir Putin who heads the Moscow-based Renova group. It is, according to Treasury documents, a powerful conglomerate with interests in the metals, mining and technology industries.

The search also took place at a property on Fisher Island in Miami.

The U.S. arrest of the $90 million superyacht Vekselberg in early April was the first under recently imposed Western sanctions targeting assets of the Russian elite in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Vekselberg is one of the many Russian oligarchs who have faced sanctions since the start of the war.

In addition, he was the subject of an investigation by the Department of Justice in relation to allegations of bank fraud, although no charges were filed in this case.

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All assets of Vekselberg in the United States were frozen. American companies were banned from doing business with him and his legal entities. The Ukrainian-born businessman made his fortune by investing in the aluminum and oil industries in the post-Soviet era.

Vekselberg has long had ties with the US, houses in New York and Connecticut. A call to a lawyer associated with the Hampton property went unanswered. Attempts to contact a representative of Vekselberg were also unsuccessful.

Homeland Security and FBI investigations confirmed that their agents were at those locations, but declined to comment further. The Justice Department and the NYPD declined to comment.

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