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🧵 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

🔴 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

🔴 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

🔴 Arkady Rotenberg

#PanamaPapers showed that around the time one of Rotenberg’s companies received government contracts to work on a proposed $40 billion natural gas pipeline, shadow companies controlled by him made huge payments into the Putin network. bit.ly/39AK6XS

#FinCENFiles reporting also found that after Arkady Rotenberg and his brother Boris Rotenberg were sanctioned by the U.S. in 2014 in response to Russia’s invasion of Crimea, they transferred substantial assets to their sons, who were also later sanctioned.
bit.ly/33FqvFM

🔴 Oleg Deripaska

#FinCENFiles revealed suspicious bank transactions involving a BVI company that operates as a subsidiary of Deripaska’s Basic Element Group.
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@washingtonpost also reported on Deripaska in the #PandoraPapers. wapo.st/3tTLw8Q

🔴 Yury Kovalchuk

#PanamaPapers showed Vladimir Putin's “personal banker” receiving millions in loans from a key offshore company in the Putin network and as co-owner of a company holding the title to the Russian president’s reported favorite ski resorts. bit.ly/39AK6XS

🔴 Konstantin Ernst

It’s not just oligarchs who are now being targeted with sanctions. Propaganda chief Konstantin Ernst, the boss of Russia’s leading TV network Channel One, was the subject of a recent offshore exposé in the #PandoraPapers. bit.ly/3ISXoOG