Moscow - Kyiv, October 6 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - RBC correspondents managed to discover Russian traces of those famous Ukrainians who were included in the EU sanctions lists and on the wanted list.
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In the elevators of the Moscow City skyscrapers you can meet Viktor Pshonka, Sergei Arbuzov and his namesake Sergei Kurchenko, writes RBC. The director of the real estate agency Penny Lane Realty, Georgy Dzagurov, claims that since May, modestly dressed buyers from Ukraine have appeared in his office, for whom viewing the bedrooms on the second floor is less important than “getting into the budget.” “Some say: ‘Don’t look at our car and clothes,’ and obviously do not fit the image of a buyer of an expensive home,” shares Dzagurov. “They consult with someone over the phone, then deposit money and register the property in their name. Obviously, this property is needed by those who made money through “backbreaking labor” in Ukraine,” the realtor concludes.
Ukrainian citizen Alexander Viktorovich Yanukovych, according to the SPARK-Interfax database, registered Arsenal-Invest LLC in St. Petersburg on May 7, 2014. The main activity of the company is “management of financial and industrial groups and holding companies.” Legal address: 195009, St. Petersburg, st. Komsomol, 2 Liter A, office 2. Arsenal-invest owns a subsidiary, Arsenal Estate (working in the field of real estate and consulting). "Arsenal" leases out the space of the same plant.
Azarov Alexey Nikolaevich, the son of ex-prime minister Nikolai Azarov, is listed as the owner of one of the plots of the Monolit HOA, an elite village located in the Istrinsky district of the Moscow region. According to an extract from the unified state register of rights to real estate and transactions with it, the area of the plot is 4000 square meters. m, Eduard Shaikhulislamovich Fatkhulin (the surname of Nikolai Azarov’s wife) is indicated as the copyright holder. The transaction was completed on March 21, 2014. The cost of a two-story cottage in the village reaches 20 million rubles.
The former head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Sergei Arbuzov, occupies an office in Moscow City. On June 26, 2014, in the conference hall of the Hermitage Hotel in St. Petersburg, the start of the work of the association “Center for Research on Economic and Sociocultural Development of the CIS Countries, Central and Eastern Europe” was announced. On the expert council are Arbuzov himself (he was also elected head of the center), and the director of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ruslan Grinberg.
Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko reported in July that ex-Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka “bought luxury real estate in Moscow City” and has already “received Russian citizenship.” The Rosreestr database does not record the purchase of any real estate by citizen Pshonka.
Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Andrei Portnov, according to unconfirmed reports, works as an adviser to one of Gazprom’s structures.