“Golden Passports” in Malta receive Russian managers and middle -sized businessmen. Who are these people?

The Malta government revealed the names of foreign citizens who received “golden passports” in 2019 in exchange for investments in this country. Of the three thousand names, at least three hundred can be attributed to the CIS and Russia countries. "New" studied the list of new citizens included in the European Union of Malta.

Malt approved the program for issuing “golden passports” in 2013. Over the past years, among people who received citizenship of the country, namesakes of Russian businessmen, for example, O1 Group owner Boris Mints, founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, former Governor of the Amur Region Leonid Korotkov and relatives of Senator Suleiman Kerimov, have been discovered. The new list published by the authorities of this country, wealthy Russians are familiar with whole families, and the owners of Malta’s passports, as follows from the publication, except for famous Russian entrepreneurs, are increasingly becoming businessmen from the regions.

Malta provides citizenship for money since 2013, in order to obtain a “golden passport” it is necessary to make a contribution to a special Fund for the development of Malta in 650 thousand euros and another 25 thousand for the spouse and each of the minor children. Another 150 thousand invest in the Maltese securities and spend 16 thousand on a rental of real estate or 350 thousand euros in case of purchase. A few thousand euros are complied with the costs of expenses.

Billionaires

In 2019, according to the information of the Malta authorities, a billionaire received citizenship from the Forbes list, the founder and co -owner of the manufacturer of Roof Materials “Technonikol” Sergey Kolesnikov, his wife and three daughters. The businessman confirmed that he received such a passport.

The Malta citizens also became the full namesakes of the co -founder of the LSR developer Georgy Vedernikov and his five relatives, the co -owner of the chain of stores of goods for the repair of Petrovich Andrian Melnikova and his sons, as well as the shareholder of Vertikal, the operator of the telecommunications infrastructure of the city of Moscow Georgy Chumburidze and the co -owner of the producer of the drug Valenta Farm, Anton Strekalov, included in the first five of the country's pharmaceutical companies with revenue in 2019 of 13.4 billion rubles. The company's website states that more than half of the company's products is included in the list of vital and most important drugs of the Ministry of Health.

Oilmen

The list of Maltese citizenship recipients also indicates the namesakes of the son and relatives of the former President of Rosneft, Sergei Bogdanchikov, Alexei. Bogdanchikov the younger is the former vice president of Novateka, and now the co-owner of the Russian operator of the data centers with revenue of more than 1 billion rubles. for 2019. A citizen of Malta is also the namesake of Stanislav Usvynin, deputy chairman of the board of directors of the Aerros oil and schools, and, probably, his wife and children. These companies serve Rosneft, Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek and others.

Farmers

The owners of the “golden passports” also have the namesakes of the former vice president of Lukoil, and now the co-owner of agricultural sector Alexei Smirnov and his wife. Smirnov is a co -owner of the agricultural complex in the Tver region, including the largest coral meat manufacturer in the region with revenue of 5.5 billion rubles. In 2019.

The list also has the full namesake of Raisa Demina - the founder and chairman of the board of directors of one of the largest meat processing companies Velkom. Together with her, as the recipient of a passport, Denis Demin is also indicated, they are also called the son of an entrepreneur, who is now managing the company's assets.

The recipient of Malta’s citizenship in exchange for investments could also become the family of the founder of the largest in the Volgograd region of the Zerinovsky Zavolzhya agricultural enterprise Rashid Karsakov and his five relatives. The revenue of this company in 2019 amounted to almost 10 billion rubles.

The names from the list also coincide with the names of the co -owners of the manufacturer of milk and meat of the Zarechye agricultural company from the Lipetsk region Viktor Tyurin and his relatives. Tyurin in the local press is designated as a philanthropist - the company sponsored the repair of a rural clinic, kindergarten, stadium, sports ground, as well as graduation school evenings and festivals. The revenue of the Zarechya in 2019 amounted to a little more than 191 million rubles.

Maltese from the regions

Data from the list of the Maltese authorities coincide with the names of large regional businessmen and their families. For example, Rinat Salikhov - the Ufa developer, the former general director of the Zhilstroyinvest family group of companies, the developer of residential complexes and the highest building of Ufa Idel Tower. The names in the list also coincide with the names of the Khabarovsk billionaire Oleg Pak, who died in November 2020 from coronavirus. Pak owned a shopping center and a cinema, his company built the largest Yu-City residential complex in Khabarovsk.

Another namesake is presumably the former head of Kazan electric networks Rushad Mustafin, a brother of the famous entrepreneur Albert Mustafin in Tatarstan. The latter owned construction and production assets, as well as assets for the sale of oil products and natural gas, which were part of the TEAA "Resource Holding".

Recipients of citizenship also include the namesakes of the Krasnodar entrepreneurs of Alexander and Irina Shekhovtsov - co -owners of the manufacturer of glass -composite reinforcement of NGO "Structure" and construction companies operating on state contracts with local authorities. Names from the list also coincide with the names of co-owners of several traffic expedition companies engaged in railway transportation in the Kaliningrad region, Arkady and Alla Chupaevs. Companies are engaged in the restoration and equipment of railway locomotives and rolling stock, repair, storage of oil and its processing products. The company "Transaliance of the West", the founder of which is the Chupaeva, the resident of the special economic zone of the region, planned to create a logistics enterprise for railway transport with an investment volume of 330 million rubles.

The list also has the namesake of the family of the owner of the network of ophthalmological clinics "New Vision" of the Belarusian entrepreneur Oleg Kovrigin. In 2017, the businessman, with the support of the Karelia authorities, opened the ophthalmology center in Petrozavodsk and planned to open a similar clinic in Murmansk. Clinics of Kovriggin work in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway and Great Britain. The entrepreneur also planned to build a clinic in Malta.

Petersburg

The owners of the “gold passports” of Malta also include the namesakes of the family of the former president of the Soyuz group of enterprises-the supplier of construction and road equipment, construction and restoration work-Likhomanov. Likhomanov died in January 2020, before that he headed the Public Organization of the Union of Restorers and was in the Public Council under the Governor of St. Petersburg, where he headed the security commission and public order, interaction with the bailiffs and law enforcement agencies, countering corruption and legality.

The names from the list also coincide with members of the family of St. Petersburg billionaire President Defa Group of the importer of fish and seafood Denis Repinsky. In 2019, the publication “Business Petersburg” estimated its fortune at 7.61 billion rubles. The data from the list also coincide with the names of Elena and Alexander Rausov - co -owners of the St. Petersburg group of companies Raudendall, which is engaged in the supply of dental and medical equipment.

In 2019, the European Commission criticized the Golden Passports and Golden Vis program due to the risks of money laundering, corruption and tax evasion. In the same year, the Cyprus authorities, also issuing “golden passports”, withdrew 26 passports issued to foreigners suspected of financial crimes or relations with governments. It was reported that nine of them are passports of Russians, among which Oleg Deripaska was mentioned. On September 3, the authorities of Cyprus announced that they would check all cases of issuing “gold passports” during the existence of the program in 2020. In September of the same year, the Politis newspaper also published a list of Russian citizens who received in 2008-2012. In exchange for investments in the country of the "golden passport" of Cyprus or citizenship of the republic.