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Complaint against VINCI corporation to French prosecutors

French company, Vinci, established a Joint Venture with Russia — North-West Concessions Company  (NWCC) — to build an ecologically unfriendly motorway across Khimki forest between Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg. Russian banks, Sberbank and Vneshekonombank, credited the construction, officially called a “public-private partnership”. First, one section of construction cost €300 million. This means that each kilometer cost …

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Showman Vladimir Kiselyov and Malyshevskaya criminal organization

OPERATIVE FILE ON KISELYOV (KISELEV) A reference to Vladimir Vladimirovich KISELYOV (KISELEV), Assistant to St. Petersburg Mayor, Anatoly SOBCHAK. KISELYOV was the right-hand man of Gennady PETROV, one of leaders of the “Malyshevskaya” crime group. He was dealing in racketeering and extortion of money from St. Petersburg businessmen in the interests of SOBCHAK’s mayoral election …

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Sens de la Vie creation

Swiss foundation, registered by the former chief of Ozero Cooperative and Rosatom top manager, Vladimir Smirnov (investigated in 2000–2009 in Germany in the SPAG money laundering case, now archived — see SPAG, elsewhere in the TBCA). “Sens de la vie” — “meaning of life”. Its declared purpose is to support innovative research projects by students …

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Skigin, Traber, Vasiliev — Monaco’s police file on Sotrama S.A.M

Monaco’s police file on the Monégasque company, Sotrama S.A.M. (now CINPIT S.A.M), 2005, in French: summary of suspicions of money laundering by its de-facto managers, Ilia (Ilya) Traber, Sergey Vasiliev, Dimitrios (Dimitry) Skigin (deceased), and Eduard Skigin. The company’s suspected links with organized crime. The official manager is Michele Tecchia and his company is Caravel …

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Gafur Rakhimov, French Interior’s note

Information note of the French Ministry of the Interior on Gafur Rakhimov from 5 February 1998. “On 22 January 1998, at the arrival of a flight from ZURICH (Switzerland), the Immigration Control Service of BOURGET carried out the examination of the situation of an Uzbek businessman. It is : RAKHIMOV Gafur (Gafour), born on 22 …

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Gafur Rakhimov to meet with Daimler Benz in Stuttgart

List of participants of the meeting with the leadership of Daimler-Benz, among them “Mr Gafur Rakhimov, Agro Plus K & M”, which took place on 14 June, 1996 in Stuttgart. Switzerland based company Agro Plus K&M existed in 1992-1998. OCCRP liked the company to than residing in Switzerland Sergey Mikhailov (Mikhas) from Solntsevskaya gang . …

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