Russian Emails Appear To Indicate Network With 4.5 Billion In Assets Linked To Putin Russia

A digital trace of the paper appears to indicate that a number of holiday homes and other assets allegedly used by the Russian president, which according to available records belong to or belong to individuals, companies and charities, are linked by a common domain name. e-mail, LLCInvest.ru. Putin diagram A snapshot of email exchanges leaked since last September further suggests that managers and administrators associated with some of the separate entities that own and manage these assets have discussed day-to-day business problems as if they were part of a single organization. An anti-corruption expert in Russia, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the political situation in Moscow, said the findings raised questions about whether there was a level of “joint management”. “LLCInvest is basically like a cooperative or an association, in which its members can exchange benefits and property,” they suggested. For nearly two decades, Putin has been accused of secretly amassing enormous wealth through proxies, fueled by a series of leaks, such as the Pandora newspapers, about the wealth of those closest to him. Sergei Kolesnikov, a businessman, claimed 10 years ago that he was behind a plan that would allow a group of Russia’s top oligarchs to raise billions of rubles in a kind of “investment fund” for Putin, who was then prime minister. Minister. The allegations were rejected and Kolesnikov fled Russia. Last month, the UK government contrasted Putin’s “luxurious lifestyle” with official Russian records listing “mediocre assets,” such as a small St. Petersburg apartment, two Soviet-era cars from the 1950s. a trailer and a small garage. Alexei Navalny has claimed that the 1 1 billion palace was built for Putin’s personal use in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Photo: AP After a year of research, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Russian-language news site Meduza identified 86 companies and nonprofits whose representatives appear to use the common domain name LLCinvest, often in conjunction with corporate email accounts. Allegations of secret presidential property are denied and the property chain leading to Putin has not been identified. A Kremlin spokesman said: “The president of the Russian Federation has nothing to do with the objects and organizations you mentioned.” Villa Sellgren is owned by Sergey Rudnov, the son of a childhood friend of Putin. Photo: Navalny.com According to the OCCRP and Meduza, the assets associated with the organizations or corporate structures around them, where the LLCinvest.ru e-mail domain appears to be used, include: A 1 1 billion palace, claimed by Alexei Navalny, was built for Putin’s personal use in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Billionaire oligarch Arkady Rotenberg, who is under sanctions by the EU and the US, has claimed ownership of the property. Company records kept by the Spark database in Russia have reported since June that the property belongs to a company called Kompleks whose parent company is Binom. The director of the company at Binom until July last year seems to have a registered email domain LLCInvest.ru. LLCinvest.ru remains in contact with Spark, Russia’s largest corporate database. Acres of vineyards around Gelendzhik Palace. Navalny claimed that wineries were a “hobby” of Putin that had spiraled out of control. The vineyards surrounding the palace belong to a non-profit organization founded by two of Putin’s associates, Gennady Timchenko and Vladimir Colbin, both of whom are also subject to Western sanctions. Kolbin and others associated with the vineyards appear to have email accounts on LLCInvest.ru. The Igora ski resort in the Leningrad region where Putin’s daughter was married in 2013. According to land records, it is owned by Ozon, a company owned by Putin’s friend, chairman and largest shareholder in Bank Rossiya, Yuri Kovalchuk. who is under western sanctions, had a large share. The LLCInvest.ru email account is a contact in the Spark files of Ozon’s parent company, Relax. A villa north of St. Petersburg, known locally as “Putin’s Dacha”. Villa Sellgren was owned by Oleg Rudnov, Putin’s childhood friend, and was inherited by his son Sergey Rudnov, through a company called North. Rudnov appears to be using LLCinvest.ru email addresses, according to Spark files. A wooden building north of St. Petersburg, known as the Fisherman’s Hut. Emails leaked from a construction company suggest that three different companies using the domain name owned different plots of land around the complex, while a fourth LLCInvest entity – a non-profit organization called Revival of Maritime Traditions – managed the construction. The same institution, which was recently sanctioned by the West, has two yachts, the Shellest and the Nega, which according to the US Treasury Department are linked to Putin. Map of assets of Russia The $ 4.5 billion in assets held by LLCInvest entities include large cash deposits. Two nonprofits, co-founded by Timchenko and Kolbin, who according to Spark’s corporate records appear to use the domain name, have significant funds at their disposal. The Development of Agricultural Initiatives had 17 billion rubles (£ 248 million) in its deposit account at the end of 2020, while the Development of the Effective Investment Market maintained more than 20 billion rubles (£ 292 million) in long-term deposits and almost 5 rubles (almost 5 billion rubles). £ 73 million) in short-term deposits at the end of 2020, according to publicly available accounts. LLCinvest is not a typical open source email provider like Yahoo, but a server sector owned by Moskomsvyaz, a telecommunications company with close ties to Bank Rossiya. The St. Petersburg bank is under Western sanctions and is described by the US Treasury Department as “the personal bank for senior Russian officials.” Rossiya has also been described as “Putin’s bank” for its role in allegedly carrying out the Russian leader’s offer. The Kremlin has denied any such connection or influence. The common email domain was discovered by analyzing metadata leaked from Moskomsvyaz servers, which appear to show the names of the senders and recipients of LLCinvest.ru emails, the subject and time of the mail. This intersected with open source recordings and a separate leak of the contents of some complete messages. The yacht Shellest belongs to the non-profit organization Revival of Maritime Traditions. Moskomsvyaz and all but one person who appears to have used LLCInvest.ru’s email addresses did not respond to a request for comment. The purpose of the joint e-mail service or the motive for the apparent cooperation on staff and logistics is not clear. There is no indication that all LLCInvest.ru users are involved in the management of assets linked to Putin’s reports. Only one man who uses an email account on LLCinvest.ru in his role as director of several companies, spoke on the phone when he was called. He claimed that he was unaware of the nature of his work. “I am a humble employee and I do my job,” he said when asked. “I only sign papers. You know how sometimes the homeless register as directors of a company. “I’m not homeless, but I sign the papers as they do without going into details.” “If my company was part of a big company, I would not know,” he added. The man’s identity is hidden for his own safety.

title: “Russian Emails Appear To Indicate Network With 4.5 Billion In Assets Linked To Putin Russia " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-23” author: “Reginald Jourdan”

A digital trace of the paper appears to indicate that a number of holiday homes and other assets allegedly used by the Russian president, which according to available records belong to or belong to individuals, companies and charities, are linked by a common domain name. e-mail, LLCInvest.ru. Putin diagram A snapshot of email exchanges leaked since last September further suggests that managers and administrators associated with some of the separate entities that own and manage these assets have discussed day-to-day business problems as if they were part of a single organization. An anti-corruption expert in Russia, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the political situation in Moscow, said the findings raised questions about whether there was a level of “joint management”. “LLCInvest is basically like a cooperative or an association, in which its members can exchange benefits and property,” they suggested. For nearly two decades, Putin has been accused of secretly amassing enormous wealth through proxies, fueled by a series of leaks, such as the Pandora newspapers, about the wealth of those closest to him. Sergei Kolesnikov, a businessman, claimed 10 years ago that he was behind a plan that would allow a group of Russia’s top oligarchs to raise billions of rubles in a kind of “investment fund” for Putin, who was then prime minister. Minister. The allegations were rejected and Kolesnikov fled Russia. Last month, the UK government contrasted Putin’s “luxurious lifestyle” with official Russian records listing “mediocre assets,” such as a small St. Petersburg apartment, two Soviet-era cars from the 1950s. a trailer and a small garage. Alexei Navalny has claimed that the 1 1 billion palace was built for Putin’s personal use in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Photo: AP After a year of research, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Russian-language news site Meduza identified 86 companies and nonprofits whose representatives appear to use the common domain name LLCinvest, often in conjunction with corporate email accounts. Allegations of secret presidential property are denied and the property chain leading to Putin has not been identified. A Kremlin spokesman said: “The president of the Russian Federation has nothing to do with the objects and organizations you mentioned.” Villa Sellgren is owned by Sergey Rudnov, the son of a childhood friend of Putin. Photo: Navalny.com According to the OCCRP and Meduza, the assets associated with the organizations or corporate structures around them, where the LLCinvest.ru e-mail domain appears to be used, include:

A 1 1 billion palace, claimed by Alexei Navalny, was built for Putin’s personal use in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. Billionaire oligarch Arkady Rotenberg, who is under sanctions by the EU and the US, has claimed ownership of the property. Company records kept by the Spark database in Russia have reported since June that the property belongs to a company called Kompleks whose parent company is Binom. The director of the company at Binom until July last year seems to have a registered email domain LLCInvest.ru. LLCinvest.ru remains in contact with Spark, Russia’s largest corporate database. Acres of vineyards around Gelendzhik Palace. Navalny claimed that wineries were a “hobby” of Putin that had spiraled out of control. The vineyards surrounding the palace belong to a non-profit organization founded by two of Putin’s associates, Gennady Timchenko and Vladimir Colbin, both of whom are also subject to Western sanctions. Kolbin and others associated with the vineyards appear to have email accounts on LLCInvest.ru. The Igora ski resort in the Leningrad region where Putin’s daughter was married in 2013. According to land records, it is owned by Ozon, a company owned by Putin’s friend, chairman and largest shareholder in Bank Rossiya, Yuri Kovalchuk. who is under western sanctions, had a large share. The LLCInvest.ru email account is a contact in the Spark files of Ozon’s parent company, Relax. Ozon is not affiliated in any way with the listed e-commerce giant of the same name on the Nasdaq. A villa north of St. Petersburg, known locally as “Putin’s Dacha”. Villa Sellgren was owned by Oleg Rudnov, Putin’s childhood friend, and was inherited by his son Sergey Rudnov, through a company called North. Rudnov appears to be using LLCinvest.ru email addresses, according to Spark files. A wooden building north of St. Petersburg, known as the Fisherman’s Hut. Emails leaked from a construction company suggest that three different companies using the domain name owned different plots of land around the complex, while a fourth LLCInvest entity – a non-profit organization called Revival of Maritime Traditions – managed the construction. The same institution, which was recently sanctioned by the West, has two yachts, the Shellest and the Nega, which according to the US Treasury Department are linked to Putin.

Map of assets of Russia The $ 4.5 billion in assets held by LLCInvest entities include large cash deposits. Two nonprofits, co-founded by Timchenko and Kolbin, who according to Spark’s corporate records appear to use the domain name, have significant funds at their disposal. The Development of Agricultural Initiatives had 17 billion rubles (£ 248 million) in its deposit account at the end of 2020, while the Development of the Effective Investment Market maintained more than 20 billion rubles (£ 292 million) in long-term deposits and almost 5 rubles (almost 5 billion rubles). £ 73 million) in short-term deposits at the end of 2020, according to publicly available accounts. The yacht Shellest belongs to the non-profit organization Revival of Maritime Traditions. LLCinvest is not a typical open source email provider like Yahoo, but a server sector owned by Moskomsvyaz, a telecommunications company with close ties to Bank Rossiya. The St. Petersburg bank is under Western sanctions and is described by the US Treasury Department as “the personal bank for senior Russian officials.” Rossiya has also been described as “Putin’s bank” for its role in allegedly carrying out the Russian leader’s offer. The Kremlin has denied any such connection or influence. The common email domain was discovered by analyzing metadata leaked from Moskomsvyaz servers, which appear to show the names of the senders and recipients of LLCinvest.ru emails, the subject and time of the mail. This intersected with open source recordings and a separate leak of the contents of some complete messages. Subscribe to the daily Business Today email or follow the Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk Moskomsvyaz and all but one person who appears to have used LLCInvest.ru’s email addresses did not respond to a request for comment. It is not clear what the purpose of the joint e-mail service is or what motivates it for open cooperation on staffing and logistics. There is no indication that all LLCInvest.ru users are involved in the management of assets linked to Putin’s reports. Only one man who uses an email account on LLCinvest.ru in his role as director of several companies, spoke on the phone when he was called. He claimed that he was unaware of the nature of his work. “I am a humble employee and I do my job,” he said when asked. “I only sign papers. You know how sometimes the homeless register as directors of a company. “I’m not homeless, but I sign the papers as they do without going into details.” “If my company was part of a big company, I would not know,” he added. The man’s identity is hidden for his own safety.