{"id":156,"date":"2022-10-12T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/?p=156"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:14:14","slug":"extradite-british-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/extradite-british-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Extradite British Citizen for Helping Russian Oligarch Evade Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US Demonstrates Extraterritorial Reach to Extradite UK Citizen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>British businessman Graham Bonham-Carter has been arrested in the UK and faces extradition to the USA. He allegedly helped Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska avoid US sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US prosecutors claim that Bonham-Carter helped Deripaska by making payments for the upkeep of his US properties. It\u2019s also alleged that he tried to move artwork out of the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deripaska Has Been Sanctioned by the US Since 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Deripaska has been under US sanctions since 2018, well before the current round of sanctions related to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonham-Carter was arrested on Ovtober 10<sup>th<\/sup>. The allegations relate to helping Deripaska with his US real estate in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US prosecutors allege that Bonham-Carter wired $1m from a Russian bank account to the US to help manage Deripaska\u2019s US properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to documents submitted to the court Bonham-Carter has worked for Deripaska since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Released on Bail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecutor in New York said \u201cBonham-Carter obscured the origin of funding for upkeep and management of Deripaska\u2019s lavish US assets in violation of international sanctions.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonham-Carter was released on conditional bail by the court in London. If the extradition is successful and he\u2019s convicted of the charge he faces up to 20 years in a US prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer who acted for Bonham-Carter is also facing a charge of wire fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Demonstrates Extraterritorial Reach to Extradite UK Citizen British businessman Graham Bonham-Carter has been arrested in the UK and faces extradition to the USA. He allegedly helped Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska avoid US sanctions. US prosecutors claim that Bonham-Carter helped Deripaska by making payments for the upkeep of his US properties. It\u2019s also alleged that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extradition.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}