Has any enforcement action or indictment officially named Sergey Belyakov in connection with sanctions evasion or Deripaska’s financial networks?
Executive summary
No publicly available U.S. enforcement action or indictment in the provided reporting explicitly names a “Sergey Belyakov” in connection with sanctions evasion schemes tied to Oleg Deripaska; recent Treasury and Justice Department announcements identify other individuals and companies but do not mention that name [1] [2] [3]. Reporting instead highlights designated actors such as Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov and corporate vehicles tied to an attempted divestment of Deripaska-linked shares, and prior indictments and charges have named different associates and intermediaries [1] [3] [2].
1. What the Treasury and Justice Department publicly said about the 2024 sanctions action
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s May 2024 announcement described an “attempted sanctions evasion scheme” involving a coordinated plan in mid‑2023 to move frozen shares linked to Deripaska through Russia‑based firms and newly created subsidiaries, and it specified one Russian individual—Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov—and three Russia‑based companies as being designated in that action [1]. Reuters’ coverage summarized the Treasury’s language about an “opaque and complex supposed divestment” tied to a roughly $1.6 billion stake and reiterated that the Treasury identified Beloglazov and firms involved in the aborted transaction [3].
2. Who has been charged in U.S. indictments connected to Deripaska in prior enforcement
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment in September 2022 charging Oleg Deripaska and associates with conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions and obstruct justice, naming specific co‑conspirators and describing schemes using shell companies and other intermediaries to mask Deripaska’s interests [2]. U.S. reporting and DOJ statements around that case detail named defendants and alleged tactics; public materials from the Southern District of New York and DOJ outline individuals charged with facilitating travel, real estate transactions, and concealment of ties to Deripaska, but the available excerpts do not list a Sergey Belyakov [2].
3. Other named actors in the broader reporting on Deripaska enforcement
Separate journalistic and government threads around Deripaska cases have named different figures: for example, reporting on a 2023 indictment alleged a scheme involving a former FBI official, Charles McGonigal, and an associate identified as Sergey Shestakov, among others, who were accused of benefiting Deripaska or seeking to influence sanction status—again, those published accounts do not include a Sergey Belyakov in the roster of charged or designated individuals [4] [5].
4. On the absence of the name “Sergey Belyakov” in the provided sources
The supplied documents and reportage consistently identify particular individuals and entities—Beloglazov, Iliadis, Titul, Rasperia, and earlier named co‑conspirators in the SDNY indictment—but none of these sources contains an enforcement action, designation, or indictment that explicitly names Sergey Belyakov as a target or charged party [1] [3] [2]. Because the available reporting is silent on that specific name, one cannot responsibly claim there has been an official action naming him based solely on these documents.
5. Alternate explanations and caveats the public record allows
It is possible the name could appear in other documents or jurisdictions not included in the provided set, or that transliteration and spelling variants (for example, Beliakov/Belyakov/Belyakoff) could obscure matches in English‑language summaries; the sources here do not address name‑variant searches or exhaustive lists of every global enforcement action, so absence from these particular reports does not prove universal absence from every file or court docket [1] [2]. Journalistic caution is warranted: government press releases and indictments routinely list specifically identified persons and companies, and when a name is omitted from multiple, detailed government releases it is reasonable to treat that omission as significant in evaluating who has been publicly charged or designated [1] [2].
6. Bottom line: what can be concluded from the documents provided
Based on the Treasury, DOJ, and major media reporting supplied, no enforcement action or indictment in these sources officially names Sergey Belyakov in connection with sanctions evasion or Deripaska’s financial networks; the named individuals in the Treasury action and earlier indictments are different persons and firms, and those documents are the appropriate primary sources for who was designated or charged in the cited matters [1] [3] [2]. If further confirmation is needed, the next step is to search court dockets, DOJ press releases, and Treasury/OFAC designation lists for variant spellings or actions in other jurisdictions beyond the documents provided here.