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How Cyprus rose to become the beating heart of the Putin regime’s shadow financial system
Russia dominated the island’s banking system under the watch of the European Union.
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CYPRUS CONFIDENTIAL series
A new investigation by ICIJ and 68 media partners exposes the sprawling financial industry that has powered the Putin regime as it dominates its neighbors — and undermines the West.
n 2014, two senior officials of one of the biggest banks in Cyprus, RCB Ltd., visited Constantinos Petrides, a top aide to the country’s president. They weren’t there to talk banking. Instead, according to a Cyprus government investigation, the officials pressed Petrides to approve the citizenship application of a Russian national he said was under sanction by the European Union.
Petrides balked, and the meeting got heated.
“One of them almost accused me of being a traitor and harming relations between Cyprus and Russia because I didn’t want to naturalize a person,” Petrides told the investigators.
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- Phạm Nhật Vũ (a business man and younger brother of Phạm Nhật Vượng billionaire) at 1:36,
- and Phạm Phú Quốc (a former member of National Assembly) at 8:44.
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The Cyprus Papers | Al Jazeera Investigations
Al Jazeera English – 23-8-2020
A satirical look at the dubious characters and state officials who buy nationality as if it’s a luxury car. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit obtained a leak of documents that we’re calling The Cyprus Papers.
If you can afford $2.5 million to purchase a passport to Europe, then you’re probably already on someone’s rich list with at least a Porsche in the garage. The leak reveals 2,500 people who paid to become new citizens of Cyprus with the added perk of be able to live and work anywhere from Milan to Monte Carlo.
So who’s on the list? Among the names in The Cyprus Papers are convicted criminals, men on the run and political figures regarded as a high-risk for dirty money.
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