The indictment is also directed against his girlfriend and two helpers. According to the indictment, they tried to allow Deripaska's girlfriend Ekaterina Olegovna Voronina to enter the United States so that she could give birth to their children there. This was successful in 2000, but in 2022 the pregnant woman was denied entry.

The US authorities had sanctioned Deripaska in 2018 because of his closeness to Putin. The oligarch tried to circumvent the sanctions "with lies and fraud," said Lisa Monaco, number two at the Justice Department. Although he supports the Russian leadership, he has invested "hundreds of thousands of dollars" so that his child can get US citizenship and benefit from the US health care system, the ministry said.

At a press conference in Moscow in June, Deripaska described the Ukraine war as a "huge mistake". The founder of the aluminum company Rusal also used the term "war", which the Russian leadership has banned.