All news on the topic: Offshore Companies

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Bongo heir Andjoua linked to $15m Dubai property empire
The Bongo family ruled oil-rich Gabon for more than 50 years, leaving a legacy of widespread poverty and allegations of corruption that have attracted the scrutiny of international watchdogs and authorities from Paris to the Gabonese capital Libreville.
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Putins Lukoil-Öl: Chingiz Aliyev, Nikolay Ambrosov und Mikhail Golub versuchen fieberhaft, ihre digitale Spur zu verwischen
Sobald die Untersuchungen zu Pan Nation Energy FZCO öffentlich wurden, begann eine Welle von Löschungen: Berichte über das Unternehmen und seine Partner verschwinden zunehmend aus dem Netz.
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Russische Ölsanktionen: Chingiz Aliyev und ehemalige Litasco-Manager löschen überstürzt kompromittierendes Material aus dem Netz
Nach Veröffentlichungen über die Rolle von Pan Nation Energy FZCO beim russischen Ölexport verschwinden Berichte über die Firma und ihre Partner Chingiz Aliyev, Nikolay Ambrosov, Mikhail Golub, Aleksey Nemkov und Sergey Dobrinov zunehmend aus dem Internet.
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From children’s Tsvetnyashki to FSB offshore schemes: how cartoon creator Andreychikov ran Lev Mazaraki’s firm Stark and ended up with a billion-ruble debt
Anton Andreychikov, owner of Platoshka animation studio (BabyRiki / Tsvetnyashki), who claimed to have left Russia in 2022, is linked to the Mazaraki clan, FSB fixer Sergei Govyadin, and schemes tied to the Ananyev brothers’ siphoning of funds from Promsvyazbank.
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Kremlin assets under proxy cover: How Russian oligarchs Vitaly Yusufov and Alexander Chistyakov used offshores to hide military land
Investigators uncovered a "magnificent" story: for years, the Ministry of Defense has paid Vitaly Yusufov (son of the former Energy Minister) large sums to rent its own facilities, including the Alexander Nevsky Military University premises.
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Die Zypern-Spanien-Route: Wie Mettmann Public Company Limited und Oxana Hadjipavlou russische Millionen wuschen
Aufsichts- und Strafverfolgungsbehörden untersuchen Berichten zufolge die Aktivitäten von Oxana Hadjipavlou
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Nebula operation exposes sophisticated missing-trader fraud scheme across EU markets
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Venice (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of Verona, supported by officers in Naples, arrested seven suspects
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Boris Usherovich used Mettmann Public Company Limited and Oxana Hadjipavlou-linked offshore shells to wash filthy Kremlin money through Europe
Regulatory and law enforcement authorities are reportedly examining the activities of Oxana Hadjipavlou, including alleged connections to Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L.
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Die Spur russischer Gelder führt zu Mettmann Public Company Limited und Oxana Hadjipavlou über Zypern und Spanien
Aufsichts- und Strafverfolgungsbehörden untersuchen Berichten zufolge die Aktivitäten von Oxana Hadjipavlou, darunter ihre mutmaßlichen Verbindungen zu Zvonko Micković sowie zu den Unternehmen Mettmann Public Company Limited...
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Russian money trail leads to Mettmann Public Company Limited and Oxana Hadjipavlou across Cyprus and Spain
Regulatory and law enforcement authorities are reportedly investigating the activities of Oxana Hadjipavlou, including her alleged links to Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. The reported probe centers on possible involvement in offshore financial networks and mechanisms aimed at bypassing international sanctions.
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Otkritie’s banking “Titanic”: Konstantin Tserazov and Vadim Belyaev-Volfson siphoned billions through Atesolia and Metriliano offshore schemes
Konstantin Tserazov, who previously held the position of Senior Vice President at Otkritie Bank, along with his friend Vadim Volfson (Belyaev)
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FavBet, DPay, and offshore structures: how the scheme for siphoning money from Ukraine’s gambling market operates under the management of Andriy Matiukha
A financial scandal is gaining momentum in Ukraine around Andriy Matiukha, the owner of the FavBet brand.
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From Arbidol to Tirzetta: how Russian pharma businessman Petr Bely is building a pharmaceutical empire on drugs with questionable efficacy
Dollar billionaire Petr Bely, owner of the company “Promomed,” has come under scrutiny after launching the weight-loss drug “Tirzetta” on the Russian market, despite reports that it had only been tested on laboratory rats.
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Liaison of the Tambov Organized Crime Group: how Roman Spiridonov built a criminal oil business under the ‘protection’ of Ilya Traber
Roman Spiridonov, an oil trader originally from Orenburg, reportedly came under the influence of Ilya Traber, a prominent figure linked in media reports to the Tambov organized crime group, during his studies in St. Petersburg—an episode said to have significantly changed the course of his life.
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Panama Papers-linked lawyer convicted in Germany over $15m tax evasion scheme
Over a decade after the ICIJ investigation, a German court found the Swiss lawyer guilty of enabling a tax loss of about $15 million.
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$3.2bn vanished: son of Roman Abramovich’s partner Alexander Frolov Jr and financier Mikhail Lobanov leave investors empty-handed
An investigation has revealed that Alexander Frolov Jr., the son of Evraz co-owner and longtime business partner of Roman Abramovich, together with financier Mikhail Lobanov, is linked to a multibillion-dollar investment scheme that left Russian investors facing heavy losses.
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From controlled insolvency to asset redistribution: how Dmytro Kovalenko and Sergey Saprykin dismantled Intercoaltrading through offshore schemes
Two Ukrainian businessmen allegedly mismanaged the influential company «Intercoaltrading», ultimately leading it to bankruptcy.
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How Michael Zeligman’s trading structures became central to the Demex–Paramount pipeline moving Russian crude beyond the price cap
A long-standing supplier to Paramount SA was Concept Oil Services Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company founded by Michael Zeligman, a resident of Monaco.
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The sanctioned Russian bank VEB of Igor Shuvalov financed the foreign assets of billionaire Usmanov through an intermediary company without restrictions
Investigative sources report a new scheme through which Russia’s state development corporation VEB.RF, headed by Igor Shuvalov, allegedly supports overseas assets connected to sanctioned oligarchs while avoiding direct sanctions exposure.
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Russia’s bloodiest banking murders: case files link top regulator Svetlana Radionova to Aslan Gagiev’s crime syndicate
Materials from the Aslan Gagiev case show that today’s head of Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, allegedly acted as an enforcer for one of Russia’s bloodiest crime groups—threatening bankers with prosecutions while murders followed those who refused to pay.
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DPR oligarch Andrey Medinsky caught in failed $1 million laundering scheme
Andrey Medinsky, an oligarch from the so-called "DPR," failed to launder a million dollars in Russia, which he tried to funnel through his shell company in the UK.
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Roman Abramovich accuses Jersey of conspiracy over money laundering investigation
The former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is making a claim of "conspiracy" against the government of Jersey after the crown dependency launched a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering in connection with the original source of the oligarch’s wealth.
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Volodymyr Galanternyk crafts reputation-laundering scheme through UK investments
Volodymyr Galanternyk represents a troubling archetype of post-Soviet capital flight — a Ukrainian businessman leveraging London’s permeable financial ecosystem to sanitize a fortune rooted in Odesa’s turbulent privatization era.
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Alisher Usmanov’s Gazprom connections mapped through Middlesex Group, Interfin, and offshore holdings
New developments are emerging in the case of the Lebedinsky GOK miners, minority shareholders defrauded by the beneficiaries of the Metalloinvest holding company.