Russian oligarch and confidant of President Vladimir Putin, Arkady Rotenberg, allegedly financed a house in Kitzbuehel, where Putin’s daughter also spent time, through Cypriot companies. This was reported by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and local Austrian media. The EU and the U.S. imposed sanctions against Putin’s childhood friend in 2014.
The paperwork contained in the leaked archive exposes the careful methods used to hide the purchase of the Austrian Chalet. According to the report, the house owner in Kitzbühel, Tyrol, is the Cypriot company Wayblue Investments Limited, based in Nicosia.
According to the report, the purchase in the amount of about ten million euros was financed in 2013 by a loan from Cypriot Olpon Investments Limited, whose owner has been Rotenberg since 2003. Olpon Investments had transferred €11.5 million to the then Meridian Trade Bank in Latvia, which in turn was attributable to the Rotenbergs.
From there, the money was funneled to Wayblue Investments, the owner of which are unknown. The company is controlled by Velidom Ltd, another Cyprus-based company that is supposed to manage assets for third parties.
According to neighbors, Putin’s daughter Maria Voronza has been repeatedly seen in the house. Allegedly, the Austrian secret service has been trying to find out the true owner of the property since April 2022, so far without success.
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