This is wonderful. Let’s sum up Putin’s de-offshorization campaign (a reminder: it was announced on December 12, 2012): Cyprus has finally been displaced as the main investor in Russia. It has been replaced by... the Bahamas.
So, the facts are: Money is flowing into Russia from the Bahamas and Cyprus. Money is flowing out of Russia to Cyprus and the Virgin Islands.
The Bahamas, if I’m not mistaken, is one of the few places where such a nightmare as bearer shares still exists, and the Virgin Islands are also notorious for the fact that it is practically impossible to identify the real owner of a company there. That is exactly why ACF (the Anti-Corruption Foundation) constantly comes across BVI companies in corruption cases involving Russian officials (for example, Liksutov transferred ownership of shares in Transmashholding to just such an offshore entity, but formally you can’t prove it).
Show this table to every Putin loyalist whenever they dare utter the words “patriotism” and “nationalization of the elites.”
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