The United States imposed sanctions on Friday against Russian businessmen, companies and government officials.
Below are the names of the most prominent businessmen targeted along with their main assets/connections and extracts from the U.S. Treasury statement.
Designated Russian oligarchs
OLEG DERIPASKA, main owner of En+, co-owner of Rusal and Norilsk Nickel Deripaska, is ranked by Forbes magazine as Russia’s 19th-richest businessman with a net worth of $6.7 billion. Deripaska holds regular meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, invested heavily in Russia’s 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and has said his own interests are indivisible from the state’s.
En+ has a 48 percent stake in Rusal, …read more
Source: Voice of America
