The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department (OFAC) announced a settlement agreement in the amount of $1,092,000 with a former government employee who represented the interests of the Russian oligarch in the trust fund.
According to OFAC, the former civil servant represented the interests of an unnamed oligarch, against whom the United States imposed sanctions on April 6, 2018, for several years – until June 2022.
It is known that on April 6, 2018, the United States imposed sanctions against a number of Russian businessmen and oligarchs, among them Viktor Vekselberg (Vekselberg is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group), Oleg Deripaska, Igor Rotenberg (Rotenberg is being designated for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy), Suleiman Kerimov (Kerimov is a member of the Russian Federation Council), Kirill Shamalov (Shamalov married Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova in February 2013), Andrei Skoch (Skoch has longstanding ties to Russian organized criminal groups, including time spent leading one such enterprise).
