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A U.S. agency's warning over a now-scuttled deal with a blacklisted Russian billionaire could force compliance officers to shift more of their efforts towards meeting opaque due-diligence obligations when reviewing supposed divestments, analysts told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. New questions over those obligations arose May 14, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control announced designations against three Russian companies and an individual for their roles in a plan with Raiffeisen Bank to unlock €1.5 billion in Austria controlled by Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin-linked oligarch blacklisted by the U.S. since April 2018 and by the EU since April 2022. OFAC's announcement, which does...