As Ireland ruminates on the future of Aughinish Alumina, the man at the centre of company’s controversy will remain under sanctions in Europe. Oleg Deripaska, the sanctioned Russian oligarch, failed in a recent bid in the European courts to overturn sanctions levelled against him with the court reiterating his links to Rusal, the parent company of the Limerick plant. The July 8 ruling from the EU’s General Court rejected the businessman’s claims that he no longer has direct ties to Russia or companies like Rusal. Deripaska was specifically challenging the EU Council’s several decisions over the years, since the beginning…

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