Two men have been charged with protecting the ownership of a $90 million owned by a Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, authorities said.
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Masters was arrested in Spain on Friday at the request of the Justice Department. Osipov remains at large. "Facilitators of sanctions evasion enable the oligarchs supporting Vladimir Putin’s regime to flout U.S. law," U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said. Masters ran a yacht management company in Palma de Mallorca, Spain and allegedly took over the management of Tango, thesaid. He allegedly changed the yacht's name to "the Fanta" to help avoid sanctions restrictions from banks.
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