Hermitage Capital’s investigation into possible corruption at Gazrom, Eural Trans Gas and Rosukrenergo, 2005

Hermitage Capital Management told “The Moscow Times” on 16 June 2005 (as recalled here by Radio Free Europe) that Gazprom is losing out on $478 million in annual revenues from the RosUkrEnergo deal and that this money is going to unknown beneficiaries participating in RosUkrEnergo via Raiffeisen Investment.  At that time Hermitage Capital was minory …

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Rosukrenergo, Firtash, Chernoy, Bawag – parliamentary inquiry in Austria, 2007 (sealed part)

Transcript of the sealed part of the parliamentary inquiry in Austria, from July 4, 2007, dedicated to Russia mafia and money laundering in the country and possible involvement of Austrian financial institutions. Continuation of the Rosukrenergo, Firtash, Chernoy, Bawag – parliamentary inquiry in Austria, 2007 (open part). German language. Of interest: English translation: Page 56: …

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Rosukrenergo, Firtash, Chernoy, Bawag – parliamentary inquiry in Austria, 2007 (open part)

Сommittee of inquiry concerning  Financial Market Authority, BAWAG, Hypo Alpe-Adria and other financial service providers – incl. Raiffeisenbank work on behalf of Dmitry Firtash and Ivan Fursin. Raiffeisenbank representatives claimed that they did compliance check with the due dilligence company Kroll which found that Firtash made his carrier not only as Semyon Mogilevich’s man, there …

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Press conference in Vienna on Mogilevich and Cherny

Сообщение о проведении пресс-конференции фракции Зеленых в Парламенте Австрии по теме “Новые уголовные наказания для журналистов?” Сообщается о законопроекте Федерального министерства юстиции Австрии об изменении уголовного права, который сейчас находится на рассмотрении (2007). Речь в законопроекте идет о переносе реформы предварительного производства по уголовным делам в основное судебное производство. Законопроект также вводит наказания в Уголовный …

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Anticorruption NGO’s letter to Austrian Prosecution on Izmaylovo gang

Общество против терроризма и коррупции (SOCIETY against terror and corruption, SATCOR) January 14, 2004 Письмо Министру внутренних дел Австрии Эрнсту Штрассеру (Ernst Strasser) Письмо подготовлено “Обществом против терроризма и коррупции (SATCOR), российской НКО, “проводящей собственные расследования деятельности российских ОПГ и их помощников в крупном бизнесе и в госорганах. В письме рассказывается о визите во Францию …

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Strabag answers to Human Rights Watch about unpaid migrants in Sochi

The response of the Strabag company’s representative to Human Rights Watch’s approach in relation to a migrant workers’ complaint. During the Sochi Olympics, Strabag, an Austrian company co-owned since 2007 by Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska (http://www.strabag.com/databases/internet/_public/content.nsf/web/BE7782B9E4975D46C1257A0D00408636), used subcontractor Rai, which did not pay its migrant workers. Possibly in order to free up funds to pay …

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