Дерипаска подал апелляцию на решение суда США по санкциям

Businessman Oleg Deripaska has filed an appeal with the District of Columbia court against the court's refusal to uphold his earlier claim to lift the sanctions.

The US Treasury Secretary Jeannette Yellen and the HEAD of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Andrea Gaki are listed as defendants .

The court decision, which Deripaska is trying to appeal, was made on June 13. The businessman's defense stated that his inclusion in the sanctions lists was voluntaristic. Lawyers also argued that OFAC overstepped its authority by including it on the sanctions list. In addition, the defense complained about the violation of Deripaska's rights to due consideration of the process, since he was provided with an insufficiently detailed description of the reasons for the imposition of sanctions, hiding some of the information that was secret.

The court rejected the defenders' arguments.

Deripaska called the court's decision "predictably absurd." He considered that the court ignored arguments that the restrictions against him were imposed "on the basis of several tabloid articles" and "had had devastating consequences for hundreds of thousands of people."

He also stated that he was put in an unequal position compared to other participants in the process. “From the court ruling, it eloquently follows that OFAC does not have to follow established procedures (and I must), can choose which evidence to disclose and which to withhold, and freely put into words the meaning that is convenient for him,” the businessman said.

We are talking about the lifting of sanctions that the United States imposed in April 2018. In addition to Deripaska, the companies associated with him UC Rusal, En +, Eurosibenergo fell under them. The formal grounds for inclusion in the list of sanctions were that Deripaska, according to Washington, acted "on behalf / in the interests" of high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation, and also "works in the energy sector" of Russia.

Later, sanctions were lifted from UC Rusal, En+ and Eurosibenergo, as Deripaska reduced his stake in En+, through which he owns the other two companies.

Deripaska began challenging the imposition of sanctions in March 2019.