Posted on 10/19/2021 10:46:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oleg Deripaska could be a target of Durham’s spygate probe
SOURCE — NBC NEWS
FBI agents on Tuesday swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington, D.C., an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News. The reason for their presence wasn’t immediately clear. The spokesperson said the agency is conducting “law enforcement activity at the home,” but wouldn’t elaborate.
Deripaska is a billionaire oil tycoon with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was among two dozen Russian oligarchs and officials who were sanctioned by the Treasury Department in April 2018.
A press release announcing the sanctions said Deripaska has been investigated for money laundering and accused of “threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering.”
He sued the U.S. over the sanctions, but a federal court judge dismissed the case in June.
NBC News reported in 2018 that Deripaska had been repeatedly denied a visa to enter the United States over his alleged ties to organized crime. But the Russian government had recently given Deripaska diplomatic status, allowing him to enter the country with immunity, several current and former U.S. officials said at the time.
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They may want to get him in, interrogate, and lock (and lead) him into the story they want.
Like Clinton’s getting peeps, via the State Police, to sign affidavits in Arkansas - ruin their integrity by getting them to tell your story, just for a moment in time.
Spying on parents that refuse to let their children be indoctrinated with CRT and inoculated with poison Vax.............
I don’t hear the press yapping about this raid, that indicates their usual leakers are in the dark or in the corner. When it was an Obama or Hillary move to get Trump, the press was always made a huge deal of it so no one could miss the perp walks or computers getting toted out. Instead the press is rather subdued. Kristoff is still feebly flapping his gums, but not about this.
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