Called the ‘Russian Asset Tracker’, it is the initiative launched by the UK Guardian in conjunction with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and other international media to sift through the many assets around the world that match leading figures in the ‘magic circle’ are. by Vladimir Putin. The search began today with the front page of the progressive newspaper, which reported over $17 billion in assets including offshore bank accounts, yachts, private jets and luxury properties in London, Tuscany and the French Riviera ‘Azur linked to 35 Russian oligarchs and officials with close ties to the Kremlin leader, according to opponent Alexei Navalny’s list of names. These are the first results of an extensive study, which will provide further details in future editions. The most prominent oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov and Oleg Deripaska, as well as other superbillionaires, former highranking officials and stateowned company boyars, almost all already sanctioned by the EU, the United States and Great Britain after Moscow troops invaded Ukraine. However, her known net worth is well over $17 billion.
Currently, the Russian Asset Tracker has unearthed more than 145 assets, including 35 villas, 43 apartments and another 27 properties, seven yachts, and 11 private jets and helicopters. Just today, the BBC revealed that the luxury properties in London and England’s Surrey appeared to have been stolen from the cleaver by Usmanov, an UzbekRussian billionaire and one of Moscow’s key business oligarchs who was targeted as functional to the system of the British sanctions of the power of the Russian President.
Accordingly, the two villas, whose value is estimated at a total of 82 million pounds (almost 100 million euros), are no longer formally available to him.
His name had landed on Boris Johnson’s government’s long blacklist on March 3, but Usmanov’s homes currently appear inaccessible to UK authorities after being placed under the control of a trust.
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