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Deripaska Violated Sanctions to Have US-Born Kids, DOJ Says
- Girlfriend allegedly tried to have second child in LA in June
- DOJ says oligarch also schemed to buy T-shirts, iPhones in US
Oleg Deripaska
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Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska violated sanctions in a bid to ensure two of his children were born in the US and would have citizenship there, the Justice Department says.
Deripaska, 54, who has been on the US Treasury’s sanctions list since 2018 and is banned from traveling to the country, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fly his girlfriend to the US in 2020 and house her in a luxury penthouse in Beverly Hills for 6 months before she gave birth to their child, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday.