The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine transferred to state property the assets of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska totaling more than 10 billion hryvnias (about $ 270.8 million), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in its Telegram channel.
350 objects were sold out under nationalization, including the Nikolaev clay factory, the company “Glukhovsky quarry of the quartzites”, “Khustsky quarry”, “Zhezhelovsky quarry” and others.
As the SBU notes, Deripaska is “in the immediate environment of the military-political leadership” of Russia.
The special services also believe that the billionaire ruled enterprises through controlled commercial structures in different regions of Ukraine. So he “tried to hide his attitude to Ukrainian assets,” noted in the SBU.
Deripaska’s property in early January demanded the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, referring to the fact that Kyiv imposed sanctions against a billionaire. The agency also claimed that in the course of searching for the grounds for the claim it received information that the UC Rusal company is supplied to the UC Rusal company to enterprises of the defense complex of Russia. At the same time, some parts of aluminum products are made from raw materials mined in Ukraine, including at the Nikolaev clay -earth factory, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice stated.
UC Rusal in March 2022 reported that it suspended production at the Nikolaev clay factory “in connection with the inevitable logistics and transport problems in the Black Sea and in the surrounding areas.”
Earlier in Russia, the Hotel Complex “Imeretinsky” in Sochi belonging to Deripaska was converted into the state revenue. The complex is estimated at $ 1 billion. The court in Krasnodar arrested him after the anti -war utterances of the billionaire, and later found that the land was used for other purposes.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, Deripaska wrote in his Telegram channel that “we need the world as soon as possible, because we have long passed the point of irrevocation.” In June, he noted that “destroy Ukraine” would be a “colossal mistake.”