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 US authorities have charged Russian metals' tycoon Oleg Deripaska and his associates with violating sanctions imposed by Washington. The US Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed an indictment accusing Deripaska and two collaborators — US citizen OlgaShrikee and Russian national Natalia Mikhaylovna Badalona — with conspiring to violate US sanctions imposed on the oligarch and his private investment company Basic Element. Ekaterina Olegovna Voronina, Deripaska’s girlfriend, was charged with making false statements to US authorities as she attempted to enter the country to give birth to the couple’s child. “In the wake of Russia’s unjust and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, I promised the American people that the justice department would work to hold accountable those who break our laws and threaten our national security,” Merrick Garland, US attorney-general, said in a statement on Thursday. “Today’s charges demonstrate we are keeping that promise.” Deripaska and 23 other Russian oligarchs and government officials in April 2018 faced the hardest measures imposed by the US in response to Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea and alleged meddling in the 2016 US election.