Withemployees of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were seen at an apartment in a house in Manhattan and an estate in Southampton (New York), as well as at a house in Fisher Island in Miami, who are associated with a businessman Viktor Vekselberg Employees of the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security are conducting searches in real estate objects allegedly associated with Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg (under US sanctions), NBC reports, citing sources. According to the TV channel, on Thursday morning, FBI agents were seen at an apartment in a multi-storey building on Park Avenue in Manhattan and an estate in Southampton (New York State), which, according to authorities, are connected with Vekselberg. According to sources, agents also searched a house in Fisher Island in Miami, which, according to authorities, is also connected with the Russian. Five boxes and two safes were taken out of a house on Park Avenue in New York, presumably connected with Vekselberg, RIA Novosti reports, citing a correspondent. A representative of Vekselberg did not respond to a request from RBC.
In early April, the US Department of Justice announced the arrest of the Tango yacht in Spain at the request of the American side. According to the agency, it is owned by the founder of the group “Renova” Vekselberg. Tango, as it followed from the arrest warrant, “was subject to confiscation” on the basis of violation of US laws on money laundering, fraud in the banking sector and violation ofsanctions. According to the Ministry of Justice, the businessman used shell companies to hide operations related to the ship. After Vekselberg was sanctioned in April 2018, he and his proxies “continued to make dollar payments through US banks for maintenance of Tango”, including mooring, the agency claimed.
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Vekselberg was included in the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) of the Ministry of Finance, which involves blocking assets and isolation from the dollar system. It also houses the Renova group.
In 2014, RBC wrote about the New York offices or apartments of a businessman in connection with a lawsuit at that time by Senator Leonid Lebedev, which he filed against Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik, former co-owners of TNK-B. Court couriers then tried to find him in order to hand him a notice of the lawsuit filed against him. In particular, an apartment was mentioned at 1009 Park Avenue in Manhattan, where one of the couriers visited several times. The concierge saidhe is told that Vekselberg is a new tenant of Apartment 5A, but now it is being renovated, there is no one at home. From the New York StreetEasy residential real estate database at that time, it followed that Vekselberg was renting apartment 5A/6A in a 1920s-built house since February 2014, it has seven rooms (including four bedrooms) and six bathrooms. The apartments were offered to tenants for $ 36.5 thousand per month, RBC wrote.
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