Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has been charged with financing the war. The top managers of his Ukrainian company were detained.
Deripaska finances Russia's war against Ukraine
Russian Oleg Deripaska is suspected of financially supporting the war against Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) press centre reported this.
The SSU notes that two top managers of the suspect's company were detained. We are talking about the director of the mining company "Glukhiv Quarry of Quartzites" and the curator of this institution from a Russian oligarch — a Ukrainian who received a residence permit in the Russian Federation in 2021.
According to the investigation, the persons involved helped the businessman appropriate the quarry's production facilities in 2012 despite the ban on their sale. Since then, the company has been supplying Russia with wholesale batches of rock for steel smelting. The raw materials were sold to Russian defence factories to produce ballistic missiles, particularly the Iskander type.
The occupiers also used imported products for the serial production of combat drones and radar systems.
Deripaska is announced suspicion in absentia under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, in particular, in financing the war (chapter 3 of article 27, chapter 5 of article 191; chapter 3 of article 27, chapter 3 of article 209; chapter3 of article 27, chapter 2 of Article 28, chapter 4 of Article 110-2), the message states.
The director of the Ukrainian company was suspected of money laundering and financing the aggression of the Russian Federation (Chapter 3 of Article 209; Chapter 2 of Article 28; Chapter 4 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code). The curator was notified of the suspicion under Chapter 5 of Art. 191 and Chapter 3 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
It was also reported about absentee suspicion of one of the managers of "RUSAL" and a citizen of Cyprus, which contributed to the illegal alienation of the enterprise.
The case of Deripaska: what is known
Since 2018, the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has been under US sanctions for financing the projects of dictator Vladimir Putin, and since 2022 — under the sanctions of the European Union.
Deripaska owned many mining enterprises in Ukraine, from which raw materials were supplied to Russia.
Earlier, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine filed a lawsuit against Oleg Deripaska to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HCC) to impose a sanction on confiscating state assets.
In 2023, Ukraine nationalised the enterprises of the Russian oligarch Deripaska.
