Senator from Dagestan owned a stake in Elon Musk's company
Russian billionaire, member of the Federation Council from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov owned a stake in SpaceX, founded by one of the richest people in the world, American Elon Musk.
 
According to Bloomberg, Kerimov owned 1% in SpaceX through the Heritage Trust in Delaware since 2017. A year later, he was sanctioned by the United States.
 
Citigroup Inc., which managed Heritage Trust, asked the US Treasury Department for clarification and decided that there was no need to block the trust and its related organizations. After the start of the "SVO", in June 2022, the US Treasury Department blocked the trust. By this time, Kerimov's stake in SpaceX had already been sold.
 
Suleiman Kerimov is among the 20 richest Russians with a fortune of about $9.9 billion. Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he was sanctioned by the EU, Canada, the UK, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Ukraine and New Zealand.
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