Investigations

Investigation: Top Russian defense industry boss tries to lift sanctions, spills own secrets instead
Investigations

Investigation: Top Russian defense industry boss tries to lift sanctions, spills own secrets instead

by Alisa Yurchenko

Key findings: * Two years ago, lawyers representing an offshore company went to court to unblock a superyacht that had been detained in a Spanish port due to its links to Sergei Chemezov, an associate of Vladimir Putin. Chemezov is believed to secretly own a number of luxury assets outside of Russia. * Court filings studied by the Kyiv Independent revealed that the yacht changed hands several times. * All three owners are believed to have served as proxies for Chemezov, part of a strategy to

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