BREAKING Security guard shot, seriously injured outside of Drake's Toronto mansion
A security guard working at Drake’s Bridle Path mansion in Toronto was seriously injured in a shooting outside the residence early Tuesday morning, police said.
A Russian oligarch indicted in the United States Thursday for conspiring to circumvent its sanctions regime stands accused of, among other things, having flowers delivered to a former member of Parliament in Canada.
Billionaire Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska has been subject to U.S. sanctions since 2018, when the U.S. Treasury Department said he acted for or on behalf of a senior Russian official and operated in the energy sector of the Russian economy.
He was added to Canada's own sanctions list this year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Despite being prohibited from obtaining U.S. goods and technology, the FBI alleges that Deripaska directed co-conspirators to make millions in proceeds in that country on behalf of him and one of his companies, Basic Element.
Andrew C. Adams, a Manhattan federal prosecutor who heads a task force pursuing crimes by Russian oligarchs, said in a release that Deripaska sought to benefit from life in America "despite his cosy ties with the Kremlin and his vast wealth acquired through ties to a corrupt regime."
Deripaska and two others, Russian citizen Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova and American citizen Olga Shriki, were charged with conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions. Shriki is also charged in relation to destruction of records for allegedly deleting electronic records related to the sanctions evasion.
A U.S. Department of Justice news release says Shriki, who is from New Jersey, bought and sent gifts to North American social contacts on Deripaska's behalf -- including two flower deliveries to a person described as "a then-former Canadian Parliament member."
Shriki was arrested this morning and is the only person in custody. Her lawyer, Bruce Maffeo, declined to comment when asked about the deliveries.
The release also describes an alleged scheme to make sure that Deripaska's baby would be born in the U.S. so the child could take advantage of the health care system and benefits of a U.S. birthright.
Shriki and the mother of the child, Ekaterina Olegovna Voronina, are charged with making false statements to federal agents.
Following the birth, Deripaska's three co-defendants conspired to conceal the name of the child's true father by slightly misspelling the child's last name, the indictment said.
The indictment included demands that Deripaska and his co-defendants forfeit assets in the U.S., including a Washington, D.C., property and two Manhattan properties.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2022.
With a file from Dylan Robertson and with files from The Associated Press.
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