From Pandora and with a “golden passport”. The owner of a Russian oil company turned out to be a Bulgarian

Sergei Vitalievich Zakharov – A member of the Board of Directors and owner of a Russian oil company has received a Bulgarian gold passport in exchange for investments. His name comes out with a secret offshore in The Pandora Files. His settlement with citizenship has passed through adv. Boyan Novakov, current member of the SJC and supporter of Geshev.

Zakharov is the son of Vitaly Alexandrovich Zakharov (1953 – 2016) – former director

at Gazprom, former MP from the United Russia partyHe was shot dead in 2016 with a hunting rifle while walking his dog. Zakharov father is He is also the founder

of the private Museum of the History of Cold Weapons, which bears his name.

Thenames of the lawyers that Sergey Zakharov has authorized again show the name of Boyan Novansky, who consulted dozens of foreigners, candidates for “golden passports” through investments. Now Novanski is a member of the SJC from the majority supporting Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev. Mediapool earlier reported that Novansky had consulted two Russians who had been granted citizenship.

Sergey Zakharov became a Bulgarian citizen by Decree 129 of 23.08.2018 under file number 7630/2017. In the year when he submitted documents for citizenship, he registered the Bulgarian “Almax FinanceLtd., based in Sofia. The capital of the company at its founding on 09.05.2017 was BGN 1,000, and subsequently on February 15, 2018, it was increased to BGN 51,472. The second installment is non-monetary – property rights of properties in a spa complex in Bansko.

Zakharov’s company reports a modest 87 thousand. Lv. revenues and 37 thousand. Lv. profit for 2020 and a year earlier respectively 65 thousand. Lv. revenues and 19 thousand. Lv. profit. This shows a reference in the reports submitted to the Commercial Register. The investment, however, is not enough for citizenship and probably Zakharov has bought government securities or has deposited money on deposit with a Bulgarian bank, as the law on Bulgarian citizenship gave opportunities at the time.

Bulgarian – owner of a Russian oil company

Sergei Zakharov
becomes
He was a shareholder in Nefteperekworkchik in April 2016, when his father was a member of the company’s board of directors and three months before his father was killed. In the protocol it is explicitly written that they are related persons – father and son. The report of the last general meeting of shareholders on 23.04.2021 showed

that Zakharov owned 20% of the shares and was re-elected as a member of the board of directors.

In the information available on the
site
No photos of the members of the Board of Directors and the shareholders are found at the Neftepereradchik JSC. In the minutes of the general meetings of the shareholders it is not noticeable that Sergei Zakharov presents himself as a shareholder – a natural person – a Bulgarian citizen.

Zakharov is
listed
as a founder in a total of 14 companies and head of 4 companies in Russia, some of which have already closed. Among them is the non-profit company managing The Museum

of the History of Cold Weapons, named after his father.

In the Files, Pandora Zakharov appears as the ultimate owner of an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands – Blanefield Investments Limited. In it he is a partner with Alexander Smirnov. There is no information about the assets of this company.

The BRRD has data on those who have received golden passports as investors and makes a journalistic study of their relations with business and politics.

Among the newly-baked Bulgarians are Russia’s top bankers

: Dmitry Kushaev – Director of Credit Suisse Moscow, Roman Nagaev – former Director of Investment Banking at the Russian bank VTB Capital, and Igor Finogenov Former director of the Eurasian Development Bank and close to power, as evidenced by his photos with former President and Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. Another close associate of the Kremlin with a golden passport in Bulgaria is Roman Savushkin

, General Director of United Wagon Company, a structure-defining enterprise in Russia.

Bulgarian “golden passport” was also received by a hacker

who from Bulgarian territory attacked Ukraine to demonstrate the capabilities of a system of denial of service to a high-ranking Russian FSB agent, our investigation also found.

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