MP from Putin’s party has taken a Bulgarian “golden passport”

Ilshat HairullinA former member of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan from the United Russia party, which supports Putin, received a Bulgarian golden passport in 2019. Airat Hairullin was the richest lawmaker from the United Russia party in the Russian Duma before dying in a helicopter crash in 2020.

Ilshat Nazipovitch Hairullin became a Bulgarian citizen by Decree 177 of 10.12.2019 under file number 910/2018. A check in the Property Register and the Commercial Register shows that he does not own property and does not participate in companies in Bulgaria. This means that Hairullin did not invest in the real economy, but probably bought government securities or deposited money on a deposit in a Bulgarian bank, as the law on Bulgarian citizenship then gave opportunities.

The brothers of the United Russia party

Elder brother Ilshat Hairullin was born in 1965 and began his political career in 1999 as a member of parliament

. the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation. In 2003, he became a member of the United Russia party and was a member of parliament for two more terms until 2014.

The younger brother Ayrat Hairullin was born in 1970, at the age of 24 he became the youngest elected MP (1995-1999) in the Kazan City Council in Tatarstan. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan. And from 2003 until his death in 2020, he was four consecutive terms. He

is a member of the Russian State Duma, and since 2007 he has been a member of the United Russia party.

Airat Hairullin recounts during his lifetime a curious incident from the end of 2005, which he defines as an unforgettable moment in his life: “And you Medvedev ishte”. “Looking for you Medvedev”. Then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sought him out to tell him that he and President Putin had studied his biography and decided to appoint him deputy head of the working group on priority agricultural development.

The Billionaire Brothers

The Business Empire of the Hairullin brothers includes dozens of companies. Among them, the most significant are the chain of stores “Edelveis”, the agroholding “Krasnyy Vostok”, agricultural land, commercial areas (hypermarkets, malls) and others.

Ilshat Hairullin is the founder of more than 200 companies in Russia and according to
Rusprofile
To date, he participates in the leadership of “Edelveis Corporation” and “Krasnyy Vostok”. He was included in the unofficial ranking of millionaires in Russia back in 2011, while a member of the United Russia party in Tatarstan.

The Russian edition of Forbes ranked Ayrat Hairullin 27th in

the 2013 Power and Money ranking, and in the last one in which he was present for 2019 he was 96th

among the 100 richest civil servants in Russia. The heir to the shares of the deceased MP Airat Hairullin becomes his son Adele

Hairullin, as in the management of the business empire continues to participate to this day the newly-baked Bulgarian and his uncle Ilshat Hairullin.

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 Top Bankers In Russia: 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.

The Prosecutor General has already requested the revocation of the Bulgarian passport of a top Russian banker. According to unofficial information from
Mediapool
is about the Russian banker
Igor Finogenov
, revealed earlier by the BRRD.

Another Kremlin official with a golden passport in Bulgaria is
Roman Savushkin
, General Director of the United Wagon Company, a structure-defining enterprise in Russia. The owner of a Russian oil company Sergei Zakharov

also turned out to be a Bulgarian with a “golden passport”.

Russian businessman Yevgeny Mulyukov, who caused a political scandal in Estonia, has received a Bulgarian “golden passport”, Mediapool revealed

.

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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