Money laundering scandals made the Cypriot authorities quick to crack down - it took them just a week after the first warning to start seizing passports from unreliable buyers of investment citizenship. Among the first 26 foreigners deprived of "golden passports", there were nine Russians (their names are still unknown). What is happening in Cyprus is part of a global trend: investment citizenship holders need to prepare for increased checks. What's happened.

Cyprus has revoked the citizenship of 26 buyers of "golden passports", 9 of them are Russians. Everyone needs to get ready for tough tests. Money laundering scandals made the Cypriot authorities quick to crack down - it took them just a week after the first warning to start seizing passports from unreliable buyers of investment citizenship. Among the first 26 foreigners deprived of "golden passports", there were nine Russians (their names are still unknown).

The retailer Vkusville created the restaurant company Vkuskofe with the former co-owner of the Coffee House chain Vladislav Dudakov, Vedomosti learned . Read also “Vkusville” is eyeing an IPO in New York Details. According to SPARK-Interfax, 80% of the new company belongs to Vkusvill, 20% belongs to Dudakov, who also became its general director. Types of activity of “Vkuskofe” are restaurant business, takeaway service, production of juices, ready-made meals and snacks.

The Finnish Customs admitted that they had used the wrong euro exchange rate when calculating duties on imported goods. Among the victims may be Russian companies and citizens. Details Finnish customs for three years - from May 1, 2016 to June 30, 2019 - used the exchange rates of one of the Finnish banks instead of the standard ECB rates. As a result, the cost of goods subject to import customs duty was overestimated by 1.5–2.5%.

The Ministry of Economic Development lowered the inflation forecast for 2019 even further: now the ministry expects it to be at 3% instead of 3.2%. Analysts of the Central Bank expect such a value not earlier than January 2020. The Ministry of Economic Development calculated that in November monthly inflation in Russia would be at the level of 0.3%, and annual inflation at the level of 3.5-3.6%. At the end of the year, the department predicts a decrease in inflation to 3-3.3%.

The Cypriot authorities will deprive the citizenship of 26 foreigners who received Cypriot "golden passports" in exchange for investments in the country's economy. This was announced today by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Cyprus Konstantinos Petridis after a four-hour meeting. The minister did not name names or say what origin citizens lost their Cypriot citizenship, but, according to the Cypriot resource Sigmalive , among them nine Russians, eight Cambodians and five Chinese.

The Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA reduced its debt to Rosneft to $800 million in the third quarter, Interfax quotes the presentation of the Russian company. At the beginning of 2019, Venezuela owed $2.3 billion, which means that in a year Rosneft siphoned off $1.5 billion from the country going through a severe crisis. In 2014–2017, Rosneft provided PDVSA with $6.5 billion (including interest) in prepayments for oil supplies.

The American billionaire, founder of the world's largest Gedg Funder, Bridgewater Ray Dalio, who is part of the TOP-30 richest Americans and the TOP-100 of the richest people in the world according to Forbes, published an essay in which he said that “the world has gone crazy” due to a large amount of free money and terrifying inequality in access to them. What's happened?

Sberbank was fined for not connecting to the Faster Payments System (SBP) of the Central Bank, said Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina. It is the only systemically important bank not connected to the system. The Central Bank hopes that "work will be carried out to connect this bank as soon as possible," Nabiullina said. In total, 25 Russian banks (10 of them systemically important) joined the FPS, the volume of operations in the system exceeded 35 billion rubles.

The decrease in the main rate of the Central Bank lowered the rates on deposits and loans, but corporate lending is not growing, writes Vedomosti with reference to the monitoring of the Ministry of Economic Development. Since July, the regulator has reduced the rate four times, but the growth in lending to the private and public sectors in annual terms even slowed down from 9.9% to 8.6%.

The largest Apple technology reseller in Russia, the re:Store chain, together with Forward Leasing, launched an iPhone rental service , Forbes writes . Five flagship models are available for leasing: three new smartphones (iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Max) and two last year's models (iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max). For a month of using an iPhone 11 with 64 GB of memory, you will have to pay 3,940 rubles, or more than 47 thousand rubles for 12 months.

For several months of the law on mortgage holidays, about 10 thousand Russians became interested in this opportunity, and only 60% of applicants gave a deferral of mortgage payments, writes Vedomosti . Mortgage holidays - an initiative of the president. Borrowers who find themselves in a difficult life situation can receive a deferral of up to six months on mortgage payments from the bank.

The Russian authorities, led by Vladimir Putin, insist that in order to continue gas transit through Ukraine, Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy must nullify mutual legal claims. Instead, Naftogaz filed a new lawsuit against Gazprom for $12.2 billion in Stockholm arbitration. The parties have less than two months to reach an agreement. In the meantime, the Europeans are preparing for the third "gas war" and pumping storage. What's happened?

IT companies resigned themselves to the fact that the state would limit the share of foreigners in their share capital, but offered the authorities a compromise. What's happened? Russian IT companies have decided on a strategy to protect against the high-profile bill of Deputy Anton Gorelkin: they agree to limit the share of foreigners in significant Internet resources, but insist that it was only about voting shares, learned .

The government has identified a list of threats to the Runet that could lead to its isolation and the transfer of control over network management to Roskomnadzor. Among them, the dissemination of information prohibited in the Russian Federation, hacker attacks and disasters - that is, the widest possible list of threats, Interfax learned .