A criminal examination into a Russian prostitution ring involving underage women exposed allegations that billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska was a client, according to a new investigativereportby the banished news outlets Vyorstka and IStories.The alleged sex ring run from at least 2018 to 2019 and masqueraded as local teen appeal pageants, modeling companies, as well as dating websites, reporters stated, citing law enforcement records provided to them by an anonymous source.Russian authorities investigators determined a minimum of four minor victims and pressed criminal charges versus 5 individuals in 2019.
One of the victims affirmed that Deripaska had patronized of the ring, according to the report, which was released on Thursday.Three accuseds were sentenced to approximately 6 years in jail in between 2022 and 2024.
Of the staying 2, one is still desired by the Russian authorities while the other has actually prevented extradition from Austria.The just male offender in the criminal case supposedly signed up with the Wagner mercenary group to combat in the war versus Ukraine and was later on awarded a medal for bravery.Russias Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, did not respond to Vyorstkas and IStories requests for comment.A confidential cops private investigator informed the 2 outlets that district attorneys ordered them to drop an examination into Deripaska over the supposed sex ring.
Our superiors, on orders of the prosecutors, told us not to meddle, the detective was priced quote as saying.Deripaskas assistant and his aluminum business Rusal did not react to requests for comment.Another declared customer, business person Alexander Usov, left to Austria, which rejected Moscows demand to have him extradited.
The report describes Usov as a service partner of the family of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and as having held major construction contracts in St.
Petersburg.Following publication of the investigative report on Thursday, both Vyorstka and IStories said their sites and social networks channels came under coordinated cyberattacks.In 2018, the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny accused Deripaska of having ties to a young Belarusian escort in between 2016 and 2017.
Deripaska denied those accusations at the time, dismissing Navalnys video examination as slander.