More than $ 17 billion in global assets – including offshore bank accounts, yachts, private jets and luxury real estate in London, Tuscany and the French Riviera – have been linked to 35 oligarchs and Russian officials, who are said to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
THE Guardianin collaboration with the OCCRP, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other international news organizations, reveals the initial research as part of an ongoing project to monitor the wealth of the most powerful Russians.
The project to track down Russian assets will begin, focusing on a list of 35 men and women who were named Putin’s alleged collaborators last year by imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This project will record assets outside of Russia, for which the recording partners have seen data linking them to these individuals.
Navalny’s organization has appealed to Western governments to consider sanctions against the names that are on its list, while all but two have since been blacklisted in the US, the EU, the United Kingdom or Canada.
The names include four of them richer oligarchs, as well as heads of state-owned companies, prominent journalists, top spy officials, political advisers and local governors. The names have been read in the US Congress by legal officials who want tougher sentences against the Russian elite, as well as in the British Parliament by the representative of the Liberal Democrats, Leila Moran.
The Russian asset detector has identified real estate or land – worth more than half a billion dollars – linked through companies, loans or relatives to four of Navalny’s top-notch figures: Roman Abramov, Abramovich Oramovich Deripaska and Igor Suvalov.
Outside the United Kingdom, the Russian asset detector has discovered:
Twenty-six assets that appear to be linked to Deripaska, who is believed to be Putin’s favorite industrialist. These include billions of dollars in:
- shares
- a hotel in the Austrian Alps
- a super yacht
- a 60-meter ship with a helipad
- luxury properties in London, Paris, Washington and New York
- and four villas in Sardinia.
– Two private jets related to Suvalov, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and current chairman of the state development company. Suvalov is also linked to three luxury real estate valued at about $ 35 million, located in Salzkammergut, Austria, Tuscany, Italy and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
– Real estate companies linked to the families of Nikolai Tokarev, chairman of the state-owned pipeline company Transneft, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov. Tokarev companies seem to own luxury real estate on the Croatian island of Lošinj, a well-known hotspot for wealthy Russians, while Peskov’s company is linked to an expensive apartment in Paris.
Guardian
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