The musicians conducted very strange transactions

In 2016, the Panama authorities launched an investigation into a company that belongs to Sergei Roldugin, a friend of Vladimir Putin, who appeared in a journalistic investigation of politicians and stars from around the world of Panama Papers.

According to Novaya Gazeta, in December 2016, a request from the State Prosecutor's Office related to the investigation of an economic crime came to the office of the Panama registrar Mossack Fonseca. In it, prosecutors demanded to submit documents for one of the offshore Roldugin, International Media Overseas.

According to the newspaper, this company played an important role in the "offshore empire of Roldugin" and conducted many "strange transactions" with shares of Russian state -owned companies. For example, she simultaneously entered into an agreement on the purchase of Rosneft shares and an agreement on its termination. For the breakdown of the contract, Roldugin received a commission of 750 thousand dollars.

Immediately after the first publications from Panama Papers in April 2016, Mossack Fonseca sent the British Virgin Islands to the Suspicious Activities to another Roldugin company - Sonnette Overseas. The basis for this, Mossack Fonseca called the media publications that Roldugin is a friend of Vladimir Putin. The company sent the same reports to the offshore companies of the Rotenberg and Alexei Krapivin family, whose companies are among the largest Russian Railways contractors.

The results of the investigation have not yet been reported.

Panama Papers calls several million documents of the Panama company Mossack Fonseca, which is registering offshore. Journalists from several dozen countries worked with these documents, who eventually could find data on the offshores of politicians and stars from around the world. The archive also found data about the offshores of a close friend of Vladimir Putin - cellist Sergei Roldugin. In 2015, he owned companies with a turnover of several billion dollars that made dubious transactions and received money from Russian billionaires.

Putin himself confirmed the authenticity of documents about offshores, but emphasized that there are no accusations of any crimes in the investigation. On the contrary, he stated that he was proud of Roldugin, who partially spent earned money on musical instruments for state institutions.