Investigations
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our project has obtained corporate documents and copies of written communications which demonstrate that Vlad Doronin, Pavel Tio and Eduard Berman have had a close business relationship with nominal owners of Vladimir Putin’s summer palace, officials of the Russian security services and Solntsevskaia criminal syndicate which originated in Russia but now operates across the globe. […]
Immediately following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Capital Group has publicly supported the war making a show of its solidarity with the Russian government. On March 16 2022 it obliged all of its employees in Moscow to come to the pro-war rally which took place at the Luzhniki stadium and was personally attended by Vladimir […]
