Oligarch charged in US

A Russian billionaire and three associates were yesterday criminally charged in New York with conspiring to violate US sanctions and plotting to ensure his child was born in the United States. The Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by the US Treasury Department, which said he had acted for or on behalf of a senior Russian official and had operated in the energy sector of the Russian economy. Andrew C Adams, a Manhattan federal prosecutor who heads a task force pursuing crimes by Russian oligarchs, said in a release that Deripaska had lied and evaded US sanctions as he sought to benefit from life in America. Only Olga Shriki, 42, of Jersey City, New Jersey, was arrested. Federal authorities said Shriki, a US citizen, tried to help another woman charged in the case, Ekaterina Olegovna Voronina, 33, of Russia, to get into the US to give birth to Deripaska’s child.