US: FBI raids home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
By DW
22 October 2021 |
11:14 am
US federal authorities have searched the home of Putin ally and billionaire Oleg Deripaska, in what the FBI described as court authorized "law enforcement activity."
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