Investigations
Sometime in the middle of 2012 Vlad Doronin and Naomi Campbell broke up. The gossip columns, who chronicled their relationship, had much to say about the reasons for their separation but it was clear that it was very acrimonious. The feud continued well after their breakup: in 2020 Campbell sued Doronin in a London court […]
Pavel Tio is known to be an avid hunter. He owns numerous game reserves in Russia and abroad. For example, hunting grounds near the village of Ivino in the Smolensk region, registered to the company OOO Vostok. According to an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Vostok LLC is currently 85% owned […]
On May 22, 2015 “The New York Times” published an article called “Paying the price for a personal drill sergeant” about the emerging industry of personal trainers for high net worth individuals. One of the people interviewed for the article was Omar Amanat, the founder of Aman Resorts Group, who at the time was embroiled […]
Sometime in or before 2012 Doronin, Tio and Berman have very confidentially created a ‘family office’ in Cyprus, which was tasked with the management of the ownership structure of their Russian and international holdings, all aspects of corporate financing (debt and equity financing and dividend policy), treasury responsibilities, as well as with the most delicate […]
While Capital Group openly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine, its shareholders hedge bets by obtaining foreign papers Newly available materials demonstrate that Capital Group’s public support of the war against Ukraine notwithstanding, its shareholders have hedged their bets by obtaining citizenships abroad. The fact that Doronin is a Swedish citizen and resident of Switzerland has […]
An investigation by ‘Dossier Center’, a group of Russian opposition journalists, which was released on December 7, 2022, exposed new money laundering schemes used by Vladimir Putin and his entourage. Among the materials presented in the report is an ownership structure of a mega-yacht called ‘The Graceful’, which, as it is convincingly proved, has been […]
In Russian real estate circles it has been a well-known fact that from around 2007-2008 Capital Group has started to cultivate Russian and foreign government officials, developing the lucrative business of ‘wash sales’. In a ‘wash sale’ real estate is bought, sold, or rented out for the purpose of legalizing profits. For example, a corrupt […]
Despite the high profile maintained by Vlad Doronin and the massive amount of information available about him in open sources, virtually nothing is known about his parents and about his early life. In the dozens of interviews given by him he carefully evades any discussion of his life in the USSR, including the profession of […]
A leaked email exchange between officials of Capital Group with a discussion of the seating plan for the opening ceremony of OKO Tower, which took place on October 16, 2012, sheds light on the personal connections of Doronin, Tio and Berman. An email sent by Elena Vlasenok, an employee of the PR division of Capital […]
That Capital Group shareholders are sensitive to negative publicity is well known in Russian and international real estate circles. Doronin and Tio, who maintain a much more public profile than the secretive Berman, have for many years gone all out, boosting the numbers of their internal PR staff and hiring Russian and international PR advisory […]
