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How did companies linked to foreign billionaires, like Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska & Igor Makarov, find a home in the US?
In our latest investigation with @washingtonpost, we take a look at a little-known player in the financial secrecy business. 🧵 bit.ly/3ubd230
In our latest investigation with @washingtonpost, we take a look at a little-known player in the financial secrecy business. 🧵 bit.ly/3ubd230
US states like Wyoming, Delaware, and Nevada have become havens for hidden wealth largely through LLCs, business structures that offer owners privacy, legal benefits and tax breaks.
Representing every LLC is a registered agent. bit.ly/3ubd230
Representing every LLC is a registered agent. bit.ly/3ubd230
Registered agents provide perfunctory corporate services and often serve as the only point of contact for companies with anonymous owners.
Operating with no required training and little oversight, some agents have massive, globe-spanning client lists. bit.ly/3ubd230
Operating with no required training and little oversight, some agents have massive, globe-spanning client lists. bit.ly/3ubd230
Why haven’t sanctions against Russian oligarchs worked in the past? And what’s different now?
@nytimes’ The Daily podcast tackled the question, citing a case ICIJ is very familiar with: Putin’s judo buddy, Arkady Rotenberg. #PanamaPapers #ParadisePaper nyti.ms/3NpKgn0
@nytimes’ The Daily podcast tackled the question, citing a case ICIJ is very familiar with: Putin’s judo buddy, Arkady Rotenberg. #PanamaPapers #ParadisePaper nyti.ms/3NpKgn0
The Rotenbergs are among many Russian powerbrokers who ICIJ investigations have shown use the offshore system to hide their money and anonymously spend their billions around the world, effectively skirting the intended impact of sanctions. #RussiaArchive bit.ly/3L6PUID
For example, when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 and Arkady Rotenberg — a billionaire oligarch and childhood friend of Vladimir Putin, was sanctioned — he and his brother transferred substantial assets to their sons, #FinCENFiles show. (HT @BuzzFeedNews!) bit.ly/36nrKeb
Funny how both @BurgerKing and @TUIUK released public statements soon after @ICIJorg & partners sent them detailed questions about their Russian business partners & offshore dealings in #PandoraPapers Coincidence? #RussiaArchive 🧵 1/3
After @ICIJorg 's questions, @BurgerKing announced it's divesting from a JV with a Russian sanctioned bank, linked to the Russian franchisee. Details on the JV are well documented in #PandoraPapers and we'll have a story soon... #RussiaArchive 2/3
@Severstal_PAO chair Mordashov transferred his @TUIGroup shares to a BVI shell after he was sanctioned. TUI said it didn't know who owned the BVI co...until today=24+ hrs after @ICIJorg found the shell in #PandoraPapers & asked Mordashov about his wife's links to the company 3/3
🧵 Russian oligarchs now being widely targeted with sanctions have featured prominently across several ICIJ investigations.
Here's some of the offshore dealings we’ve previously uncovered about political elites close to Vladimir Putin. #RussiaArchive👇 bit.ly/3oUP1dl
Here's some of the offshore dealings we’ve previously uncovered about political elites close to Vladimir Putin. #RussiaArchive👇 bit.ly/3oUP1dl
🔴 Alisher Usmanov
#ParadisePapers showed that a firm connected to the Uzbek-Russian billionaire provided a link between Russian state money and large early investments in Facebook.
Read more in the #RussiaArchive: bit.ly/3CEVaQP
#ParadisePapers showed that a firm connected to the Uzbek-Russian billionaire provided a link between Russian state money and large early investments in Facebook.
Read more in the #RussiaArchive: bit.ly/3CEVaQP
🔴 Gennady Timchenko
#PandoraPapers reporting revealed a series of massive loans between anonymous offshore shell companies and a firm the oil magnate registered in Cyprus. bit.ly/3HanF9A
#PandoraPapers reporting revealed a series of massive loans between anonymous offshore shell companies and a firm the oil magnate registered in Cyprus. bit.ly/3HanF9A
