The court arrested 32 million hryvnias of the plant of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. This is stated in the message of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

“UAH 32 million of Ukraine’s largest producer of metallurgical alumina and aluminum hydroxide was arrested,” the prosecutor’s office said.

From open sources it is known that we are talking about the Nikolaev alumina plant. Last year, an enterprise owned by Oleg Deripaska was transferred by the court to the management of ARMA.

The statement of the GPU also says that earlier, at the request of prosecutors, the property of this business entity was arrested: 12 land plots, a seaport complex, apartments, administrative buildings, production workshops, 46 vehicles, 240 units of special equipment - a total of more than UAH 1 billion.

“According to the investigation, in 2000 this Ukrainian enterprise was privatized by a holding owned by a Russian oligarch. It is currently under US and EU sanctions.. The basis for their use was money laundering in the interests of the president of the aggressor state,” the Prosecutor General’s Office stressed..

The Russian holding Rusal in question is one of the world's largest aluminum producers.. The group of companies included in it continues to meet the needs of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, supplying its own products for the production of military missile systems and other weapons.

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The pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings on the facts of financing actions committed with the aim of forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power, changing the boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine, sabotage, as well as planning, preparing, unleashing and waging an aggressive war continues and is carried out by investigators of the GUS. 4 st. 110-2, h. 1 st. 113, h. 1 st. 437 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). With operational support of the Main Directorate of counterintelligence protection of the interests of the state in the field of economic security of the SBU.

Recall that in the United States of America on January 21, Charles McGonigal, a former senior special agent of the intelligence department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was detained for agreeing to cooperate with Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska..

Also in the autumn, British businessman Graham Bonham Carter was arrested on charges by the United States of America of conspiring to violate sanctions imposed on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska..