Profile of Oleg Deripaska: The oligarch of Askeaton
The billionaire is one of seven Russian oligarchs targeted for sanctions by the US Treasury Department, which claims the tycoons were profiting from a Russian state engaged in 'malign activities' around the world
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Age:50
Appearance: stocky, unshaven Russian billionaire
Newsworthiness: his ownership of Aughinish Alumina is putting hundreds of jobs in Limerick at risk
It’s not every day that the town of Askeaton in Co Limerick finds itself at the centre of a battle between two world superpowers. But the rural community in the south west of Ireland is in serious danger of becoming collateral damage in a tit-for-tat economic war between the Trump administration ...
