Russian Oligarch Deripaska Rejected by Top US Court on Sanctions

The US Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska to get US sanctions against him lifted.

The decision comes days after US prosecutors unsealed a criminal indictment alleging Deripaska violated sanctions imposed in 2018 for his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The sanctions against Deripaska were imposed on the basis of executive orders signed in 2014 by former President Barack Obama in response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region in Ukraine. The billionaire’s lawyer had argued they were unlawful and that rulings by an appellate and district court upholding them threatened to give ...