One of the richest people in Russia was holding the share of American billionaire Ilon Mask through the SPACEX, despite the sanctions introduced against Washington against him. This was reported with reference to informed sources on January 30 by Bloomberg.

It is reported that billionaire Suleiman Kerimov since 2017 owned shares through Heritage Trust, which is based in Delaware. Initially, it was about 1% SpaceX.

In 2018, Kerimov and other Russian entrepreneurs fell under the sanctions of the US Department of Finance due to the " His assets were to be blocked, and in the conduct of business with American companies this was supposed to create obstacles.

CITIGROUP INC. However, I decided that there is no need to block the trust and related organizations. Sources claim that he continued to work.

In June 2022, the American Ministry of Finance blocked a billion of dollars after investigators exposed a complex system of legal structures and dummies to conceal information. The share in SpaceX had already been sold by that time.

" They also raise questions about proper care in Citigroup, an international banking giant, which is now under investigation of the Ministry of Justice regarding his work with Heritage Trust, ”the publication emphasized.

Citigroup was refused in the commentary, but they assured that they were striving to " The editors could not establish whether they knew about SpaceX about Heritage Trust. It is noted that such closed companies conduct proper verification of investors, but in some situations it is difficult to identify shareholders.

In SpaceX, Musk and its representatives did not answer the requests for comments. Kerimov and the US Treasury also did not give a response to requests.

According to sources, after blocking Heritage Trust in 2022, Washington continued to find more and more American companies in which this trust invested in money. Officials still find out how much the enterprises could violate the sanctions and whether they should be held accountable for this.

58-year-old Kerimov-17th in the ranking of the richest billionaires of Russia, his fortune is estimated at about $ 9.9 billion. He got rich, buying shares in Russian companies from banking, energy and mining spheres, as well as using loans from state banks. In the EU, he is considered a person from the immediate environment of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

In February 2022, the United States confiscated his super -$ 300 million superchalets at Fiji, which Kerimov probably controlled a number of dummy companies. Several members of his family and partners also fell under the sanctions. One of his nephews, according to the American Ministry of Finance, is the beneficiary of Heritage Trust.

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The founder of Heritage Trust, as is known from trust documents, is officially the mother of Kerimov. She could choose the beneficiaries and distribute funds between descendants if the corresponding prohibitions were not introduced against them.

SpaceX is a defense contractor with a security allowance, which provides for additional rules regarding investors. However, the company is obliged to report foreign ownership, control or influence, if we are talking about a share of at least 5%. The share of Heritage Trust was smaller.

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