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How Mordashov saved his companies from sanctions

Alexey Mordashov, one of the richest Russians, has become an unexpected figure on the European sanctions list. However, do not forget that he was once a co-owner of Rossiya Bank, as well as the founder of the National Media Group. Mordashov managed to speak out against the conflict in Ukraine, but this did not save […]

Viktor Medvedchuk's Palace and Golden Carriage

House of 2000 sq. m, a fur coat storage and a machine gun Maxim Putin’s godfather, a deputy of the Rada of Ukraine, who escaped from house arrest Journalists of the Ukrainian edition of Slidstvo.Info came to visit to the oligarch and politician Viktor Medvedchuk – the leader of the pro-Russian forces and the godfather […]

Offshore octopus of Mikhail Fridman and Alfa-Bank JSC

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.

Mikhail Watford found hanged on his estate in Surrey

Russian oligarch Mikhail Watford, who was born in Ukraine when it was still part of the USSR, has been found dead in the UK. This is reported by the Daily Mail. Michael Watford made his fortune in oil and gas production. In the early 2000s, he emigrated to the UK, changed his citizenship and name, […]

Can the UK still go after Roman Abramovich and other Russian oligarchs?

EU deputies branded the UK a shame for the fact that it has so far failed to “privatize” a single serious asset of the Russian oligarchs. Although the Prime Minister of this country, Boris Johnson, shook his habitually disheveled hair threateningly the loudest. It turns out that the cunning Russian billionaires, while the sanctions bureaucracy […]

The network launched a bot to spy on the flights of Russian oligarchs

US programmer Jack Sweeney launched a Twitter bot that monitors the flights of Russian oligarchs. According to the service, Roman Abramovich’s plane landed in Turkish Ankara about an hour ago, and Arkady Rotenberg’s jet is at the airport in the capital of the Maldives. Jack Sweeney’s Twitter bot tracks the movements of the business jets […]

US Department of Justice creates task force to prosecute Russian oligarchs

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday the creation of a task force to prosecute “corrupt Russian oligarchs” and violators of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Writes about it “Mirrors of the Week”. “The Department of Justice is using its full power to seize the assets of individuals and entities that […]

"Ballast" for the Demkins: how recipients of the PZSP "master" Perm

The head of Perm, Aleksey Dyomkin, corrects the financial situation of the PZSP company, which is not alien to him, with the help of the oligarch Sedykh, and is he not averse to earning extra money on Permian orphans? According to the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Perm Territory, the structure of one […]