the u.s. government in 2018 with six other russian oligarchs as punishment for, quote, russian s malign worldwide activities. oleg deripaska and the other billionaire russians who were sanctioned in that order were accused of using what appeared to be, you know, sort of purportedly their private or commercial interests to actually act on behalf of the russian government. to actually carry out activities on behalf of the kremlin and on behalf of russian president vladimir putin including messing with western democracies at the kremlin s direction. those sanctions were imposed in 2018. deripaska sued to have the sanctions against him dropped. a federal judge earlier this year throughout deripaska s lawsuit and kept the sanctions in place. in the midst of that case, the treasury department wrote to deripaska and told him the sanctions were still warranted in part because of recent allegations that deripaska was money-laundering on a grand
behalf of russian president vladimir putin including messing with western democracies at the kremlin s direction. those sanctions were imposed in 2018. deripaska sued to have the sanctions against him dropped. a federal judge earlier this year threw out deripaska s lawsuit and kept the sanctions in place. in the midst of that case, the treasury department wrote to deripaska and told him the sanctions were still warranted in part because of recent allegations that deripaska was money-laundering on a grand scale for vladimir putin personally. effectively, that putin was hiding some vast personal fortune by running it through deripaska s companies with deripaska s knowing it. that said, if oleg deripaska s name does ring a bell for you at all, it s likely because of the russia investigation. he was the linchpin in that investigation, in the mueller report, in the senate intelligence committee s investigation, he was the linchpin of the most serious allegations about trump and the