OREANDA-NEWS. The U.S. Treasury has promised to declassify materials that served as the basis for imposing sanctions against Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska in April 2018, the District of Columbia court said. It has been in this court since March 2019 that the billionaire’s lawsuit has been considered demanding that the sanctions against the US Treasury and the Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), as well as the heads of these departments - Stephen Mnuchin and Andrea Gaki - be lifted against him.

Among the materials that served as the basis for the imposition of sanctions against the businessman and his companies, the texts of the newspapers The Nation, The Telegraph, and The Times were publicly featured. However, some of the items on the list used for evidence against the billionaire were classified.

Now, within 75 days, starting from December 9, 2019 (until February 21, 2020), the parties must provide the court with relevant information on the transfer of materials to Deripaska and the status of his request to review the sanctions imposed against him.