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FBI agents searched sumptuous American homes belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin.
Federal agents raided a high-rise building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, as a Hamptons property connected to billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, NBC New York reported.
An asset search is also underway at Miami’s exclusive Fisher Island.
Mr. Vekselberg, of Ukrainian origin, owner of the Russian conglomerate Renova Group, had his $90 million Superyacht Tango confiscated through the government for the Spanish coast in April.
The 255-foot yacht captured in the Royal Navy of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, through the Spanish Civil Guard and officials from KleptoCapture, a Justice Ministry organization created in March to capture Russian assets.
The Justice Department said Vekselberg bought Tango in 2011 but hid his assets in shell companies.
The seizure came after Western allies imposed sanctions in response to Ukraine’s unprovoked invasion of Moscow in February.
Homeland Security Investigations agents, the FBI and NYPD detectives were seen conducting searches of the Park Avenue construction site and a home on Duck Pond Lane in Southampton, New York.
Under the sanctions, Mr. Vekselberg’s assets in the United States are frozen and U. S. corporations do business with him.
He made investments of his non-public fortune in the Russian aluminum and oil industries.