Ilya Karpyuk: “Panama Dossier”: Return

The Panama Dossier and the Paradise Dossier, it turns out, became not only the reason for hundreds of publications in the Russian press. The Russian authorities also analyzed leaks from foreign offshore registrars and discovered illegal financial transactions for billions of rubles, to which thousands of Russians are involved, including high -ranking officials. This was stated by the director of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin, speaking at the Eurasian Anti -Corruption Forum.

Recall that the press “Panama dossier” and “Paradise dossier” call documents from the offshore registrars Mossack Fonseca and Appleby. As a result of leakage, they were at the disposal of the International Consortium of Journalists-ICRUSTERS (ICIJ) and the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) and were published in 2016.

“The service is constantly analyzing materials - such as Panama Dossier, Paradise dossier, English dossier, and so on. An analysis of this information showed that thousands of foreign companies passing according to the dossier are controlled by Russia to Russian citizens. With their participation, many dubious financial transactions were identified for a total amount of several billion rubles, ”Chikhanchin said, as RIA Novosti reports .

Yuri Chikhanchin, Head of Rosfinmonitoring / Holding-media.ru

The head of Rosfinmonitoring also added that the connection of these companies “with a number of Russian public officials, including from the governor, deputy corps, the leading composition of executive bodies” was established. “The results of the investigation were sent to law enforcement agencies,” he assured.

Documents included in the Panama Dossier indicate that offshore companies were also controlled by Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Moscow Vice-Mayor Maxim Liksutov, ex-minister of economics Alexei Ulyukaev, Secretary of the General Council of United Russia and former governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak, Serge Roldugin, whom President Vladimir Putin called his friend, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov and other Russian officials, deputies and senators.

The “Paradise Dossier” was mentioned by the wife of the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov Olga.

Also in these documents almost two dozen Russian dollar billionaires appear.

After the publication of the Panama Dossier, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced his verification. But at first, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that the publication of the Panama dossier is “planned and coordinated at the level of one of the Western states” by the action. “That through the Magnitsky list they found people who own capital in offshore, I absolutely convinced me that we are dealing with a really conducted special operation. I have no doubts about this part, ”he said.

Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General / GenProc.gov.ru

And in the summer of 2017, in response to a request from journalists about the results of the investigation, the Prosecutor General’s Office stated that the information about the verification of the “Panama dossier” cannot be announced. “I inform that the requested information contains information that is not subject to public,” said the representative of the department, Alexander Kurenna.

During the “direct line” in April 2016, President Vladimir Putin, answering the question of the “Panamanian dossier”, stated that the information about the offshores of his friends are reliable, but the authors “lead a shadow on the wicker” and “the ears of customers stick out everywhere, they stick out and do not even blush”. According to the head of state, Roldugin himself earned money with the help of business and spent it on the purchase of musical instruments.