Reuters could not immediately determine Deripaska's whereabouts. The reason for the searches was unclear, and the FBI spokespeople gave no details.Ī representative for Deripaska said the homes being searched belong to relatives of the oligarch. Officers blocked off access to the street and prevented local residents from entering it. Three FBI SUV vehicles converged on the two-story home in New York, with agents carrying out boxes and rolls of bubble wrap which they put in a white van. In Washington, FBI agents sealed off and searched a mansion in one of the US capital's wealthiest neighbourhoods, carrying boxes out of the house, which had yellow "CRIME SCENE DO NOT ENTER" tape across the front, and towing away a vehicle.Ī spokesperson for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the agency was conducting a court-authorised law enforcement activity at the home, which the Washington Post has previously reported was linked to the Russian oligarch.Ī separate spokesperson for the FBI's New York field office confirmed "law enforcement activity" at a home in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood but declined further comment. Two sources familiar with the investigation said the US Attorney's office in Manhattan, also known as the Southern District of New York, is leading the probe related to Deripaska, a metals industry magnate with Kremlin ties.
FBI agents on Tuesday raided Washington and New York City homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire under US sanctions who once employed Paul Manafort, a chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 US presidential campaign.
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