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Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko Secretly Controlled Offshore Firms that Banked at Austria’s Raiffeisen #Firtash #Mogilevitch occrp.org/en/investigati…

💰Raiffeisen Banking Group

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Firtash II

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RosUkrEnergo, Firtash, Mogilevich, and Raiffeisen

In 2004, the Centragas Holding AG, controlled by Firtash, teamed up with Gazprom to establish Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo, or RUE, to exclusively import Central Asian gas to Ukraine.

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These Are the Banks Caught Up in the Russia Money-Laundering Scandal

Danske Bank
Swedbank
Nordea Bank
ING Groep NV
Credit Agricole
Deutsche Bank
KBC Group Ukio Bankas
Raiffeisen Bank
ABN Amro Group
Cooperatieve Rabobank
Turkiye Garanti Bankasi

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Raiffeisen an Austrian bank is just one in a handful of European banks, including Danske Bank and Deutsche Bank, that are being scrutinized following allegations of money laundering and Russian influence.

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In 2017, as part of the Panama Papers investigation, OCCRP linked Poroshenko to Intraco Management Limited, another British Virgin Islands-registered shell firm with an account at Raiffeisen, despite Zaitsev being the declared beneficial owner.

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Intraco, Vernon, and 15 other companies that handled tens of millions of dollars in transactions per year tied to Poroshenko and his business empire held accounts at Raiffeisen.

Most were registered in the British Virgin Islands and in Cyprus.

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Poroshenko bought a surrealist sculpture of a long-legged elephant by Salvador Dali for $338,500 at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York using an offshore company called Linquist Ltd.

Raiffeisen listed Zaitsev as Linquist’s beneficial owner. occrp.org/en/investigati…