To get the warrant, they would have to have specific tangible evidence of a crime. And since Deripaska was recently given diplomatic immunity by the Russian, the search would need to be quite ‘precisely targeted’ – so they must know what they are looking.
FBI just raided the DC home of Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who has been linked to Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort. pic.twitter.com/6XjkHbuk3F
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 19, 2021
BREAKING – The FBI raid on Deripaska is also hitting his NY residence as well as his DC house, per NYT.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) October 19, 2021
#BREAKING in Washington, DC:
FBI moves to seize SUV belonging to Oleg Deripaska for evidence. pic.twitter.com/ewLtIbZQOO— IndictmentTime 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@IndictmentTime) October 19, 2021
Deripaska is a Russian Oligarch and a former business partner of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
More background (cited in the Mueller report) here: https://t.co/s6j1WmHPHI
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 19, 2021

Isn’t he the Ruskie that owns that big Aluminum mining and manufacturing operation that got tons of tax-breaks to locate in Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky? Might be more significant that Manafort.
Why yes, he is! But the plant was never built.
The Robert and Rebekah Mercer family of oligarchs, Fascists all, funded Andrew Breitbart and his partner Steve Bannon’s conspiratorial, far right, propaganda outlet Breitbart News.
Unfortunately the young (43) Mr. Breitbart died suddenly of a heart attack.
His Leninist partner Steve Bannon took control of Breitbart News at that point.
Soon after Breitbart’s untimely death in 2012, Leninist Bannon and Fascist Mercer began working on the Cambridge Analytica Project.
Cambridge Analytica and it’s micro-targeting of voters was responsible for the passage of both Brexit and the election of traitor Trump.
Steve Bannon was at the root of the January 6 attempted coup.
He micro-targeted the followers of QAnon, the Oath Keepers, the 3%’rs, the militia’s and all the other crazy Fascists to “rally for the cause” of the Big Lie on January 6.
Steve Bannon and his patrons the Mercers are very bad hombres who deserve every bad thing that’s coming their way.