In London, the 62-year-old businessman Graham Bonham Carter was arrested, who helped the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska bypass sanctions. This was announced by the US Treasury.
Voice of America reports that the United States will seek the extradition of a British businessman. According to the charges, Bonham Carder faces up to 20 children in prison.
According to the prosecution, Bonam Carter “provided property management services and other services to its employer, which is under sanctions, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Bonem Carter hid sources of financing, maintenance and management of Deripaska assets in the United States in violation of international sanctions” .
We are talking about sanctions imposed on the Russian oligarch in 2014 and 2018. According to the agency, Bonam Carter worked for Deripaska since July 2003. For example, he ruled a billionaire real estate in Europe, including a house in London. After Deripaska was brought into the sanctions lists, Bonem Carter continued to work for him, understanding the risks associated with this.
The Ministry of Finance claims that the businessman participated in transactions in the amount of more than a million dollars for real estate management in the USA, where the oligarch bought three mansions, two in New York from 2005 to 2008, and one in Washington, Colombia. Real estate was ruled by Graceetown Inc. After Deripaska fell under the American in April 2018, he suggested that Bonham Carter create a new company. Less than two months later, July 17, 2018, Graham Bonham Carter registered GBCM Limited in his name.
From March to December 2021, Bonem Carter paid various costs related to Deripaska real estate in the United States, including employees’ wages, real estate taxes and other services. She also helped transfer money from bank accounts in Russia to Graceetown, Inc. In New York.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska fell under American sanctions in 2018 in connection with the alleged intervention of Russia in the U.S. elections in 2016, but the oligarch managed to exclude from this list of President Donald Trump. After the start of Russia’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine, sanctions against Deripaska expanded, the UK, the EU countries and Australia joined the restrictions. In September 2022, the US Ministry of Justice accused Deripaska of violation of sanctions. According to the department, the oligarch used the US financial system to maintain three luxurious real estate objects and hired a woman to sell a music studio in California for $ 3.1 million. He is also accused of organizing his friend – Ekaterina Voronina – from Russia to the United States in 2020 and 2022, who gave birth to children there.