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FBI agents are sweeping properties in the US linked to Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Mr Deripaska, who has close ties to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, was placed under US sanctions in 2018. The oligarch’s spokesman told Reuters news agency the FBI is searching two homes owned by relatives of Mr Deripaska under court warrants related to those sanctions.

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