The son of the deputy head of Russian Railways owns real estate in Europe for 50 million euros. The enrichment of the family began with the arrival of his father in a state -owned company - "Important Stories"

33-year-old son of Russian Railways Deputy Director Oleg Tony Sergey Tony owns a real estate in Europe for 50 million euros. This was reported by "important stories" with reference to the documents of companies registered in Luxembourg, access to which the publication received Le monde.

According to the documents, the Tony family acquired palaces, villas and other real estate in Europe at a time when Tony Sr. came to work in Russian Railways.

As the publication clarifies, Oleg Tony became deputy head of Russian Railways in March 2004, he was associated with warm relations with the then head Vladimir Yakunin. In particular, when in 2008, Tony published the book “The Golden Section: Reflections on the Fates of Modern Russia”, the head of Russian Railways wrote a preface to it. Tony Business Partners, Transyuzhstroy, has become one of the key contractors of Russian Railways in the construction of facilities in Sochi.

The purchase of European real estate by the Tony family began in 2003, when Tagot Marketing Corp, which acquired the old Chateau de-Montapo mansion in France, was registered in the British Virgin Islands. The director of the offshore company-buyer was the wife of Tony Sr. Irina.

In the same year, the same company bought an apartment in Paris 200 meters from the Champs Elysees. After a couple of months, the Tony family acquired the villa on the Cote d'Azur in the town of Le-Kanna worth 3 million euros. Next year, the family bought another villa in the same city for 300 thousand euros.

Then the Tony family registered another company in Luxembourg and bought a villa through it, four apartments and two houses with the ground in Spain with a total value of more than 5 million euros. In addition, the family of the Top manager of the Russian Railways owns real estate in Prague and London.

Through the third Luxembourg offshore, Tony bought half the hotels in Germany and the Netherlands and 100% of the share in the shopping center in Italy. Now this real estate is owned by a fund affiliated with the family, which continues to buy commercial real estate. The 33-year-old son Tony holds the position of director of this fund and is the final owner of the rest of the real estate. The total fund manages assets for 40 million euros.

Personal assets of the son of the deputy head of Russian Railways are estimated at 50 million euros.

The Russian and world media have repeatedly written about how the funds were spent on the Russian railway state -owned company. So, in 2014, Reuters discovered that the construction contracts for tens of billions of rubles went to firms related to former adviser and comrade Vladimir Yakunin Andrei Krapivin. According to the investigation, the contractors associated with Krapivin then transferred the funds received from Russian Railways to one-day companies registered for dummies. Subsequently, this money was withdrawn abroad.

In 2016, New Gazeta and OCCRP wrote how Andrei Krapivin’s son Alexei received millions of dollars, acting as a mediator in the Russian Railways and the international machine -building giant Bombardier Inc. Subsequently, this publication led to the initiation of a criminal case of bribes in Sweden.

The Insider wrote about how the non -state pension fund “Welfare” serving the Russian Railways (one of the largest in the country, the volume of its reserves reaches almost half a trillion rubles), shows low profitability from year to year, and some of its assets are balanced on the verge of bankruptcy. Among other unprofitables were assets related to the family of the former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. Pension money goes to the reorganization of his companies under the pretext of “saving from bankruptcy”. As a result of salvation, it never happened.