In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting " This statement was made by an official representative of the FBI, reports Radio Liberty.

NBC News reports that its reporters are near Deripaska's house, surrounded by FBI agents.

FBI officers entered the house of the Russian oligarch. The reasons for the search have not yet been disclosed..

Nothing like an FBI raid in a DC NW neighborhood on a beautiful fall morning. @nbcnews @PoPville? pic. twitter. com / KVaN0t9dxU - Laura Strickler (@strickdc) October 19, 2021 Billionaire Deripaska is known for his close ties to President Vladimir Putin.

The oligarch was listed by the US Treasury Department on the list of twenty officials and entrepreneurs against whom US sanctions were imposed in April 2018.

According to the Washington Post, Deripaska's home in Washington is over 2,100 square meters.. It is located about one and a half kilometers from the Russian Embassy and not far from the United States Naval Observatory.. It has seven bedrooms, Italian marble floors and a chandelier that once allegedly hung in the Paris Opera..