Half a billion in the air, or how the Irkutsk airport sits on two chairs While the topic of building a new Irkutsk airport is hopelessly stalling, they tried to “feed” the enthusiastic public with “sensational” news about a large-scale renovation of the old building. But where many uninitiated see a breakthrough and great generosity, […]
Top managers of “Gazprom” in Montenegro launder money received on government contracts The beneficiaries of the network of companies receiving Gazprom contracts were the family of the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, Sergei Khomyakov, and his friends from the KGB and the Ministry of Defense. For several years they managed to earn more […]
The founder of PIK Group in France was accused of money laundering and tax evasion during the reconstruction of the hotel The French press reported on the investigation of Kirill Pisarev, the founder of the PIK group of companies, on suspicion of money laundering and tax evasion, and also pointed to a delay in the […]
Timur Turlov and his criminal empire At the end of last year, Ukraine finally added to the sanctions list the Russian businessman Timur Turlov, who positions himself as the owner and founder of the international investment company Freedom Finance. Immediately after this event, Turlov stated that the Ukrainian sanctions imposed on him and on Freedom […]
Crypto exchange Binance blocks accounts that have ever been associated with Bitzlato On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice detained the head of the Bitzlato exchange. Then Bloomberg wrote that Binance acted as a key counterparty of the exchange and laundered funds. After that, Binance began to ban users who replenished / withdrawn to Bitzlato. […]
JSC “Alfa-Bank ” Mikhail Fridman still does not start deoffshorization and habitually uses a large structure of offshore companies, created mainly in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands. The virtuoso Cypriot fiduciary registrar company ABACUS, which belongs to persons close to Alfa-Bank, is coordinating the creation of the offshore octopus. It also provides nominee directors and its address for registration of legal entities. Russian courts pretend not to understand that the directors are nominee, and all companies are registered at the same offshore mass registration address controlled by the same ABACUS company.
Ten days before a new round of sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation, businessman Kustov withdrew part of his assets in the UAE and raised prices for feedstock raw materials. It does not seem that this position correlates with state interests … According to the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Krasnodar Territory, the […]
The beneficiary of the Belgorod alcohol distributor Anatoly Fuglaev received 3.5 years for tax fraud for 116 million rubles. The court in Belgorod sentenced the beneficiary of the large Belgorod alcohol distributor Dobrynya to 3.5 years in prison Anatoly Fuglaev, accused of fraudulent VAT refunds in the amount of more than 100 million rubles. He […]
Leaked information from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse reveals the details of wealthy clients “involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes,” writes The Guardian on February 20. The publication clarifies that it gained access to the bank’s data as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Details of accounts […]
The Samruk-Kazyna Fund, as we remember, emerged as a result of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s trip to Singapore. There he spied on the idea of combining monopolies into one structure. With due solemnity and howling of experts about the wisdom of the ruler, the experience of the island, which can be covered with a copper basin, was […]