Rashid Sardarov, the owner of the South Ural Industrial Company, in order to maintain access to the EU countries after the start of the war, lit up his Bosnian passport and resident status in Dubai. This information has become available to bankers in Switzerland and lawyers in France, where he and his family own a large amount of real estate.
Bosnian citizenship was identified by accident. On March 1, 2022, Flavien de Muralt, an employee of the Swiss investment boutique Bruellan, which provides wealth management services to Sardarov, wanted to spend €500,000 from Geneva to Cannes on a private plane on behalf of his Russian client. As follows from the documents of the French court, when declaring the funds to the French customs, he declared the Bosnian citizenship of Sardarov, which the oligarch received back in 2011, a residence permit in Dubai, and his current location in Cannes.
The French raised information on previously declared cash by Sardarov, which he imported under a Russian, and not a Bosnian, passport to France three times in 2017 and 2019. Taking into account the size of the amount and, probably, fearing a violation of the sanctions regime, the customs officers confiscated the cash. The Court of Cassation, having considered the appeal against the confiscation of funds filed by Flavien de Muralt and Rashid Sardarov, transferred the case to a lower court in Grenoble.
Rashid Sardarov and his family own several companies in France, to which his property is registered. In particular, 15 minutes from Cannes and 45 minutes from Nice airport is the estate of Baron Munchausen (Domain du Baron Munchhausen), 15 hectares with a park, stables, a riding arena, a helipad, an estate with an indoor botanical garden, halls for receiving guests and conferences. The property is registered with the company Les Barons, where the partners – Sardarov Rashid – with a Bosnian address, his wife Marianna – with a Dubai one. Not far from the estate of Baron Munchausen there are villas registered in the name of Sardarov’s relatives (probably his brother’s family). Sardarov himself also has the Savana company with property at 50 Boulevard Stalingrad in Nice.
@kavkaz_leakbez, 22.08.2019 10:56: Rashid Sardarov – one of the 500 richest residents of Russia, an oil tycoon, billionaire, philanthropist and businessman (various sources estimate his fortune at more than $ 1 billion) expressed interest in creating an oil refinery worth $ 21 billion in Namibia …
All his children – sons Timur and Ratmir, as well as daughter Victoria – are somehow involved in the diverse businesses of Sardarov, which has more than 50 companies, the key of which is South Ural Industrial Company LLC, registered in Moscow in 2004 with a charter capital of 623.4 million rubles. — Inset K.ru
A member of the shortlist of the richest people in Russia, partly secret billionaire Rashid Sardarov, a Lezgin, owner of the South Ural Industrial Company and Comsar Energy Republika Srpska, apparently forgot that now is not 2013. His plans to revive with the help of Chinese investors construction another thermal power plant in Ulevik (Bosnia and Herzegovina), caused a big scandal.
Not only environmentalists and the population are dissatisfied. Brussels reminds the authorities of BiH and the Republika Srpska that the region is already under the regime of European sanctions due to energy policies that are contrary to the EU plan to reduce harmful emissions. New CHPs are not needed.
Sardarov, one of the stars “Panama Papers”, is rapidly withdrawing profits from the sale of minerals and products harmful to the environment, as well as assets from Russia with the help of business in BiH. This causes dissatisfaction with the fiscal and law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation. The government looks askance at the oligarch, but so far they do not interfere with work.
A few more scandals around him are connected with Africa. Reputational issue: An avid hunter, he often flies to the Black Continent to shoot elephants, hippos, and other game in unhealthy numbers, which few people like today. Sardarov also has some carefully concealed highly profitable business in Africa, the legality of which is questionable and of interest to Interpol.
Sardarov’s wife Marianna squanders her husband’s millions on the organization of dubious art projects. And also, while Rashid Selimovich is busy, he makes generous gifts to artists. For example, a close friend, “muse” and the main bisexual of the Russian ballet Nikolai Tsiskaridze she bought a luxurious large apartment in the center of Moscow.
Sardarov himself is also no stranger to grand gestures. For the wedding of his daughter Victoria (by the way, she married for love, a face controller from the Gipsy club) in Prague, for example, he spent about $ 10 million. Robbie Williams and other famous artists sang.
Life.Ru, 08/15/2016, “Robbie Williams sang at the wedding of a face controller and the daughter of a Russian oligarch”: The 25-year-old daughter of oil tycoon Rashid Sardarov, Victoria, married former bouncer Anton Antonov, whom she dated for more than two years. […] For the most important celebration in the life of his daughter, Rashid Sardarov chose an old castle in Prague, where he invited several hundred guests from Moscow. The party was more like a Satan’s ball than a traditional matrimonial celebration. The guests were greeted at the entrance by girls covered in fake blood with frightening fangs, and the dress code was clearly prescribed in the invitation – total black. Vladimir Spivakov, Denis Matsuev, opera singer Khibla Gerzmava, designer Izeta Gadzhiyeva, Anton Tabakov’s family and even Victoria’s Secret Angel Sara Sampaio arrived to congratulate the influential family on the holiday. The idle crowd was entertained by Robbie Williams and the Norwegian band Madcon with the already legendary song Beggin. […]
The Sardarov family owns the Gut Brunntal mountain estate in southern Lower Austria, covering 500 hectares and worth 25 million euros. The estate is surrounded by a high fence with the gold initials RS on the gate, hiding behind a manor with an indoor pool, a large natural pond and a separate guest house. In 2009, in the midst of the economic crisis, for the birthday of his wife Marianna, the owner of the Ru-arts art gallery, caring Rashid Selimovitch invited Sir Elton John. For the charming voice of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the businessman had to pay 1.5 million green notes. — Inset K.ru
The formation of Sardarov, first as a Dagestan entrepreneur, and later as an oligarch on a Russian and global scale, was associated with a number of acute conflicts with competitors and partners. The dossier on the entrepreneur, copies of which are available to all law enforcement agencies, contains information about abductions, shootings and murders. They say that even now he solves business issues very coolly.
Worth a separate story relationship history Sardarov and once the main criminal schemer from Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Kirill Selezneva. By the way, unlike his partner, he suffered as a result of a “business” that included stealing from the budget on unnecessary intermediaries and virtual transportation of raw materials – as reported, the Chechen organized crime group, commissioned by Sardarov, deprived him of the stolen billion dollars.
@mskuratov, 10/18/2018 05:13 PM: Russian businessman, president of the South Ural Industrial Company Rashid Sardarov is buying up land in Africa. He purchased four farms near Windhoek, Namibia for more than $43 million, writes The Namibian. On September 28, Sardarov purchased 17,000-hectare farms, donated them to the state, and will now lease them from the government for 99 years. Sardarov bought the farms through his Swiss company Comsar Properties SA, in addition to the 28,000 hectares he already had in Namibia, which he bought in 2013.
Sardarov’s Namibian lawyer, Sisa Namanje, confirmed the purchase of the farms and their transfer to the government as part of an agreement with the state. “Unfortunately, the application of Comsar SA and its proposals for the acquisition and development of the respective farms as property were rejected by the Minister of Land Reform,” he said. buy four farms from private owners. This proposal was rejected. But the ministry agreed that Sardarov could buy four farms from private owners, donate them to the state, and then lease them for 99 years and pay an annual rent to the government equal to the land taxes paid by farmers.