Владимир Христенко
Year of birth: 1981
Application approved: 25.05.2018
Info: President of biopharmaceutical company Nanolek, which is currently developing a vaccine for Covid-19.
His stepmother, Tatyana Golikova, is currently one of the deputy prime ministers of Russia and a former aide to Vladimir Putin.
Khristenko’s father Viktor Khristenko also held various government roles, including deputy prime minister, minister of finance and minister of energy and industry. Viktor also served on the board of directors of several state-owned companies.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Алексей Кордичев
Year of birth: 1978
Application approved: 23.10.2018
Info: As CEO of Siberia’s Vostochny Bank (2015-2017), Kordichev is one of six men accused of embezzling $37m from the bank’s shareholders.
He was arrested in Moscow on February 15, 2019 and as of May 2020, was still under house arrest.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Alexey Kulichenko
Russia 🇷🇺
Алексей Куличенко
Year of birth: 1974
Application approved: 25.05.2018
Info: A senior executive of Russia’s third-largest steel company, Severstal, sanctioned by Ukraine following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Alexander Lavlentsev
Russia 🇷🇺
Александр Лавленцев
Year of birth: 1957
Application approved: 08.02.2019
Info: Founder of construction firm ARKS.
Alexander’s son, Vladimir, was the deputy governor of St Petersburg between 2013 and 2014, and then the chief federal inspector of Moscow from 2015 to 2018.
Related applicants: His wife and daughter also acquired Cypriot passports.
Sergei Lomakin
Russia 🇷🇺
Сергей Ломакин
Year of birth: 1973
Application approved: 31.03.2018
Info: Founder and owner of FixPrice dollar stores and owner of Cypriot football club Pafos FC and current Latvian champions, Riga FC. Reportedly showed an interest in buying a stake in Arsenal.
Put on Russia’s Federal Wanted List in September 2016 and was subsequently charged with embezzlement of a loan of $123m.
Andrey Mityukov
Russia 🇷🇺
Андрей Митюков
Year of birth: 1967
Application approved: 25.05.2018
Info: Mityukov is on the board of directors at Russian steel company, Severstal, which has been sanctioned by Ukraine since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Andrey Molchanov
Russia 🇷🇺
Андрей Молчанов
Year of birth: 1971
Application approved: 04.10.2017
Estimated net worth: $850m
Info: Represented the Leningrad Region in Russia’s upper chamber of parliament (2008-2013).
In January 2018, Molchanov made the United States Treasury’s “Oligarchs List” of persons who are close to Vladimir Putin.
His father, Yuri Molchanov, was the KGB resident at Leningrad State University, where Vladimir Putin worked as his assistant in 1990. They later became business partners.
Related applicants: Andrey’s son and mother also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Vadim Moshkovich
Russia 🇷🇺
Вадим Мошкович
Year of birth: 1967
Application approved: 15.02.2017
Estimated net worth: $1.7bn
Info: Member of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament, until October 2015.
Currently chairman of farming conglomerate Rusagro and reportedly Russia’s 57th richest person.
In 2018, Moshkovich made the United States Treasury’s “Oligarchs List” of persons who are close to Vladimir Putin.
Related applicants: His son, Evgeni, also acquired a Cypriot passport.
Damir Muginov
Russia 🇷🇺
Дамир Мугинов
Year of birth: 1966
Application approved: 27.12.2018
Info: In the same month that he received his Cypriot passport, Muginov became the focus of a criminal prosecution for land fraud.
A year later in July 2019, a district judge dropped the case against him without explanation.
Yury Obodovsky
Russia 🇷🇺
Юрий Ободовский
Year of birth: 1970
Application approved: 07.05.2019
Info: Obodovsky is reportedly close to the former president of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, who is himself a long-time associate of Vladimir Putin.
Added to a Russian wanted list in October 2018 accused of paying bribes to cover up corrupt business contracts with state companies including Russian Railways.
Reportedly hiding out in “one of the most luxurious resorts in the United States”.
Under investigation when he acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Andrey Oskolkov
Russia 🇷🇺
Андрей Осколков
Year of birth: 1964
Application approved: 23.10.2018
Info: Deputy of the state council for Russia’s Udmurt Republic (1999-2017).
Co-owner of the agro-industrial holdings company, Komos Group. In 2017 he was ranked 33rd in a Forbes list of Russia’s wealthy and powerful civil servants.
Related applicants: His wi
Maxim Poletaev
Russia 🇷🇺
Максим Полетаев
Year of birth: 1971
Application approved: 26.04.2017
Info: Deputy chairman of Sberbank until 2018. The Russian bank has been the target of US sanctions since September 2014.
Poletaev left Sberbank for RUSAL, an aluminium company owned by billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
Related applicants: Poletaev also sponsored his mother’s and and son’s application for Cypriot passports.
Andrey Puchkov
Russia 🇷🇺
Андрей Пучков
Year of birth: 1969
Application approved: 23.07.2018
Info: Former co-owner of real estate development company Urban Group.
A year after he received Cypriot citizenship, Puchkov fled Russia and was charged in absentia with abuse of power and defrauding investors in a failed building project.
Related applicants: Puchkov also bought Cypriot citizenship for his wife.
Igor Reva
Russia 🇷🇺
Игорь Рева
Year of birth: 1972
Application approved: 03.07.2018
Info: Russia’s deputy minister of economic development (2014-2017).
Related applicants: Reva’s wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Rishat Safin
Russia 🇷🇺
Ришат Сафин
Year of birth: 1963
Application approved: 27.09.2017
Info: Formerly held directorships at various oil companies including a subsidiary of Russian giant, Lukoil. He then shortly pursued a career as a pop musician.
His brother, Ralif Safin, was senator for the Siberian republic of Altai (2002-2014). He is reported to be one of Russia’s 200 richest businesspeople, with an estimated net worth of $500m.
Related applicants: Rishat’s wife and two children also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Alexey Soldatov
Russia 🇷🇺
Алексей Солдатов
Year of birth: 1951
Application approved: 07.05.2019
Info: Known as “Russia’s Steve Jobs”, Soldatov founded internet service provider Relcom in 1992 and was deputy minister of communications and mass media between (2008-2010).
In December 2019 Soldatov was placed under house arrest and charged with fraud on an especially large scale.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Oleg Tinkov
Russia 🇷🇺
Олег Тиньков
Year of birth: 1967
Application approved: 24.04.2018
Estimated net worth: $2.6bn
Info: Founder of Tinkoff Bank, one of the world’s largest online banks, with around 8 million customers in Russia.
In March 2020 Tinkoff was indicted by a US court for filing false tax returns. He is alleged to have concealed $1bn of assets and income.
He was arrested in London and reportedly released on a bail of £20m (approximately $26.4m).
Tinkov is currently in the UK, receiving treatment for Leukaemia. An extradition hearing has been rescheduled for September 2020.
According to Forbes his wealth has increased by 63% during the Covid-19 pandemic from an estimated at $1.6bn to $2.6bn.
Related applicants: Tinkov sponsored the application of his son, who acquired Cypriot citizenship on 23.10.2018.
Victoria Vanurina
Russia 🇷🇺
Виктория Ванурина
Year of birth: 1972
Application approved: 22.05.2018
Info: Member of the management board at VTB Bank. The state-owned bank has been targeted by US sanctions since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Vanurina is one of three senior executives from the bank who were all approved for Cypriot passports on the same day. They all invested in the Coral Seas property development.
Related applicants: Her husband also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Alexei Yakovitsky
Russia 🇷🇺
Алексей Яковицкий
Year of birth: 1975
Application approved: 22.05.2018
Info: CEO of VTB Capital PLC. The state-owned bank has been targeted by US sanctions since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Yakovitsky is one of three senior executives from the bank who were all approved for Cypriot passports on the same day and all invested in the Coral Seas property development.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Andrey Zhupanov
Russia 🇷🇺
Андрей Жупанов
Year of birth: 1971
Application approved: 19.12.2018
Info: Former deputy chairman of Promsvyazbank. Member of the board of directors of Vozrozhdenie Bank.
Two weeks after his Cypriot citizenship was confirmed, Promsvyazbank filed a lawsuit against Zhupanov and nine other former managers of the bank, along with the bank’s former owners, Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev, to recuperate $3.8bn.
The action against Zhupanov personally amounts to $562m.
Related applicants: Zhupanov’s wife, Maria Ochirova, acquired Cypriot citizenship. Her father was chief consultant to the minister of internal affairs and her mother sits on the public council of the FSB, Russia’s secret service.
Mohammed A. H. Jameel
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Year of birth: 1958
Application approved: 07.05.2018
Estimated net worth: $5bn
Info: Board member of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, a government body.
Jameel was awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth in 2014.
Dual citizenship is only allowed under Saudi law with official government approval.
Khalid Ahmed Al Juffali
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Year of birth: 1958
Application approved: 18.09.2018
Info: Member of the board of directors, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. Chairman of E. A. Juffali and Brothers, the largest privately-owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia.
Chairman of “KJC”, a privately held investment company which mainly operates in New York City.
Related applicants: Three of Juffali’s children also acquired Cypriot passports.
Dual citizenship is only allowed under Saudi law with official government approval.
Hussain Alnowais
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
Year of birth: 1956
Application approved: 07.05.2019
Info: Senior executive of several state-owned enterprises. On the board of directors of state-owned Emirates Steel and National Petroleum Construction Company “NPCC”.
Highly influential with close links to Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, he has negotiated trade agreements on behalf of the UAE government.
Dual citizenship is not recognised in the laws of the UAE and obtaining a second citizenship is grounds for the involuntary loss of UAE citizenship.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Олег Бахматюк
Year of birth: 1974
Application approved: 25.05.2018
Estimated net wort: $1bn (2011)
Info: Former owner of VAB Bank and CEO of Ukrlandfarming Plc, Ukraine’s largest agricultural company.
Placed on a wanted list on November 22, 2019, for embezzlement of around $43m from the National Bank of Ukraine. Bakhmatyuk denies all the charges and says that the criminal case against him is “a complete fabrication and politically motivated”.
Bakhmatyuk was arrested in absentia in May 2020.
A month later the General Prosecutor’s Office was ordered to close the criminal case against him. That decision has since been overturned and the case reopened.
He remains on the wanted list.
Related applicants: Oleg’s sister, Natalia Vasilyuk, who holds senior positions in his companies, also acquired Cypriot citizenship on the same day.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship
Liudmila Lebedeva
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Людмила Лебедєва
Year of birth: 1965
Application approved: 31.01.2018
Info: Wife of Ukraine’s former defence minister, Pavlo Lebedev.
Pavlo is now a defendant in several criminal cases in Ukraine and lives in Russia-occupied Crimea. He is accused of using security forces to suppress the 2014 Euromaidan protests as well as stealing billions of dollars of military property and equipment between 2004 and 2014.
Related applicants: Their daughter also acquired Cypriot citizenship. Both she and Liudmila are joint owners of companies in Crimea.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Vadim Shulman
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Вадим Шульман
Year of birth: 1960
Application approved: 11.07.2019
Info: Oligarch who made his money in chemicals and telecoms. Shulman has headed Ukraine’s tennis federation and even paid for an auditorium named after him at Oxford University.
In July 2019 he was placed on a wanted list for money laundering, just two weeks after his Cypriot passport was approved. The Paradise Papers also reveal Shulman’s network of offshore companies.
Shulman also holds Russian and Israeli citizenship.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Natalia Vasylyuk
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Наталія Василюк
Year of birth: 1983
Application approved: 25.05.2018
Info: CEO and on the board of directors of Avangard Agrico, Europe’s largest producer of chicken eggs.
The company was founded by her brother, Oleg Bakhmatyuk, who also appears in the Cyprus Papers. As former head of the supervisory board of VAB Bank, she was placed on a wanted list on November 22, 2019 for assisting her brother with embezzlement and money laundering amounting to around $43m.
She acquired Cypriot citizenship on the same day as Bakhmatyuk.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Anatoly Yakovynets
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Анатолій Яковинець
Year of birth: 1966
Application approved: 07.03.2017
Info: First deputy chief of Ukraine’s tax police (2011-2014).
Head of financial investigations, Ministry of Revenue and Duties (2013).
Related applicants: Yakovynet’s daughter also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Mykola Zlochevsky
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Микола Злочевський
Year of birth: 1966
Application approved:: 01.12.2017
Estimated net Worth: $535m (2017)
Info: Minister for Natural Resources (2010-2012).
Member of the Security and Defence Council (2012-2014).
He has also been on a Russian sanctions list since November 2018
Owns Ukrainian gas and oil producers through his Cyprus registered company Burisma Holdings.
Zlochevsky has been investigated since 2012 for money laundering, tax evasion and since 2018 for theft of government funds.
In June 2020 Ukraine’s anti-corruption squad seized $6m of cash, which they claim was intended to bribe officials to close their investigation into Burisma.
Related applicants: Mykola’s daughters, Anna and Karina, also acquired Cypriot passports.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Volodymyr Zubyk
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Володимир Зубик
Year of birth: 1958
Application approved: 09.10.2018
Estimated net Worth: $95m (Forbes, 2020)
Info: Member of Ukraine’s national assembly the Verkhovna Rada (2006-2019), meaning he was an elected official at the time he acquired his Cypriot citizenship.
Related applicants: Zubyk’s wife and daughter also acquired Cypriot passports.
Under Ukrainian law it is illegal to hold a second citizenship.
Leonardo González Dellán
Venezuela 🇻🇪
Year of birth: 1966
Application approved: 04.01.2019
Info: A former president of Banco Industrial de Venezuela, Dellan was sanctioned by the United States on January 8, 2019, four days after his golden passport was approved.
He is described as a “testaferro”, a front person for the Venezuelan state, accused of helping launder $2.4bn.
Phạm Phú Quốc
Vietnam 🇻🇳
Year of birth: 1969
Application approved: 12.12.2018
Info: Pham is chair of the board of one of Vietnam’s biggest trade companies, IPC.
He is also a member of Congress for Ho Chi Minh city.
Related applicants: Pham’s wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
Vietnamese politicians are banned from holding dual citizenship.
Phạm Nhật Vũ
Vietnam 🇻🇳
Year of birth: 1973
Application approved: 06.05.2019
Info: Brother of “Vietnam’s first billionaire”, Pham Nhat Vu was charged and facing trial for bribery when his Cypriot passport was approved in May 2019. He was subsequently convicted and is currently serving a three year jail sentence in Vietnam.
Related applicants: His wife also acquired Cypriot citizenship.
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