It’s Deripaska, it could be anything, but I’ll remind people that there was a money laundering investigation still bounding thru the UK courts as of last year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
CNN says that the raid is connected to an investigation in *New York*, which is weird because I haven’t seen any activity at Deripaska’s two residences in NY cnn.com/2021/10/19/pol…
I stand connected. They did raid one of his places in NY (he has one on 64th and one on Gay St).
The FBI doesn’t raid the multimillion dollar mansions of Russian billionaires for fun. This is a dramatic step.
The investigation is about whether Deripaska violated sanctions, the New York Times reports nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/…

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