MAccording to the US Department of Justice, Viktor Voronchenko paid $4 million to service Vekselberg’s apartments and houses in New York and Florida for 20 years in prison for helping Viktor Vekselberg circumvent sanctions. According to the US Department of Justice, Viktor Voronchenko paid $ 4 million to service Vekselberg’s apartments and houses in New York and Florida after the businessman was sanctioned. Voronchenko faces up to 20 years in prison
In the United States, Russian and American resident Vladimir Voronchenko was accused of trying to help circumvent sanctions to Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg, according to the website of the US Department of Justice.
“He was charged with participating in a scheme to pay more than $4 million to service four properties in the United States that belonged to Viktor Vekselberg, an oligarch under sanctions, as well as trying to sell two of these properties,” the Ministry of Justice said.
The agency recalled that Vekselberg has been under sanctions since 2018, and restrictions against him were tightened in 2022. From 2007 to 2018, the businessman, according to the US Department of Justice, purchased four real estate objects in the USA: an apartment in New York City, a country house in the state of the same name and two apartments in Florida. The estimated value of all objects is $75 million
Before Vekselberg was sanctioned in 2018, various payments related to these apartments and the house were made by “shell companies owned by Vekselberg”, and then began to come from accounts associated with Voronchenko’s companies, the Ministry of Justice indicates. In addition, Voronchenko tried to sell both properties in New York.
He is accused of “conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions” and money laundering. The Russian faces up to 20 years in prison, the Ministry of Justice clarifies. In addition, the agency intends to “confiscate from Voronchenko the proceeds of his crimes, including property.”
RBC sent a request to Vekselberg’s representative.
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In January, the US Department of Justice indicted two more persons who, according to the agency, helped Vekselberg to circumvent sanctions. We are talking about Russian businessman Vladislav Osipov and British Richard Masters. They, the Ministry of Justice believes, tried to withdraw the Tango yacht, which allegedly belongs to Vekselberg, from sanctions.
Osipov and Masters tried to hide the yacht’s ownership and ensure its operation through the company and the US financial system, the Ministry of Justice said. An arrest warrant was issued against the Russian, and the Briton was detained in Spain, he faces extradition.
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