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The First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Lenar Garipov and his brother Ilnar have their own hotel rooms and apartments in Dubai worth more than $2.7 million. Not bad against the backdrop of the not-so-best state of affairs in Tatarstan’s agriculture. We were unable to find real estate in Dubai in any of the available declarations of Deputy Minister Garipov.
The brothers liked the TFG Marina Hotel – near the Dubai harbor, in the center of popular pedestrian boulevards, where branded designer boutiques and numerous restaurants and cafes are located, and only a five-minute walk to the sandy beaches. Private ownership of a hotel room is a common form of investment in Dubai: the owner can live in the room for several days a year, and the rest of the time it is managed by the hotel, bringing a certain income to the owner of the room.
In addition to rooms at the Marina Hotel, the brothers have studio rooms in the Sky Central skyscraper and in The First Central hotel apartment complex, as well as two small apartments (about 35 sq. m each) in Grand Central on the main road of Dubai, a ten-minute drive from coast.
Lenar Garipov responded to our request that his brother Ilnar was involved in real estate, but he did not own any real estate. But the registry denies this.
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Nephew of the head of administration Ramzan Kadyrov Galas Taymaskhanov, Khas-Magomed Taymaskhanov, owns four apartments in Dubai with a total value of more than $6 million (bought for $4.6 million). The Taimaskhanov clan is one of the closest to Ramzan Kadyrov; representatives of the clan have held high positions in Chechnya since at least 2008. General Maskhud Taimakhanov has headed the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) in the republic for many years (previously he was the head of the local Federal Drug Control Service), Bekhan Taimakhanov works as deputy chairman of the government of Chechnya. The head of the clan was considered Vakha Taimakhanov, who, according to “Caucasus. Realia”, lived and did business in the UAE.
Khas-Magomed Taimaskhanov acquired Dubai apartments back in 2013. Three of them are located in the Tiara Diamond North 4 residential complex on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah. The largest apartment is 222 square meters. m, with three bedrooms – was bought for 1.7 million dollars (its current value is more than 2 million). The other two (1.5 million each) are for rent. According to Dubai real estate and transaction data obtained by E24 and OCCRP, this brings Taimaskhanov $80,000 a year. Another of his apartments is 155 sq. m, cost more than 1 million – located on the 12th floor of the Tanzanite South 3 residential complex on the same Palm Jumeirah. Whether she gives up is unknown. Taimaskhanov’s largest apartment was rented out in 2016 for about $40,000 a year.
Heads of state-owned companies, their relatives and friends
Deputy General Director of the Rosenergoatom concern (part of the Rosatom state corporation), former governor of the Saratov region Pavel Ipatov, owns a 1244 sq. m. villa in Dubai. m on the island of Palm Jumeirah with an approximate cost of $7 million. His wife Anastasia has a villa on the same artificial island worth more than $5 million (bought for 2.3 million), and there are nine more apartments nearby, mostly in the Emirates Crown Tower. These apartments are valued at $12 million. The 63-storey Emirates Crown tower is located in one of the most prestigious areas – Dubai Marina, a step away from the sea coast, artificial canals and yacht berths. A villa on Palm Jumeirah with an area of 622 square meters was registered in the name of the daughter of a top manager of Rosenergoatom. m and worth more than $5 million (it was sold in March last year) and an apartment of more than 200 sq. m. m in the Al Sultana complex with an approximate cost of 1.3 million dollars.
“Since March 2012, I have not been a government employee… Since July 2012, I have been working for the commercial organization Rosenergoatom. In this regard, he is not obliged to declare information about property, according to the law of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism),” Ipatov responded to OCCRP. — My wife and daughter are entrepreneurs, I cannot comment on their activities. I have been officially married to Anastasia since 2015.”
The director of the energy department of Rosneft, Vasily Nikonov, was appointed head of the energy company Unipro in April 2023, after Rosimushchestvo received temporary management of a stake in this company, as it was said, “as a response to the actions of unfriendly states.” . Nikonov has at least three apartments in Dubai. One, with an area of more than 200 sq. m, – in the premium complex Balqis Residence, located on the western crescent of the island overlooking the Persian Gulf. Swimming pools, landscaped gardens, private beach – all included. The modern elegance of the living space, fabulous decoration, the greenery of the courtyard, the sea and the beach take life here to the highest level, realtors advertise the complex.
Nikonov’s two small, more modest studio apartments (48 sq. m each) are located in Silverene Towers in Dubai Marina, both are now registered to Natalya Nikonova. The total cost of the Nikonovs' Dubai real estate is almost $2 million.
Persons involved in criminal cases, relatives and friends
The heroes of famous criminal cases and their relatives have acquired real estate in Dubai, although some of them have already managed to get rid of it. So, the wife of a Russian crime boss Zakharia Kalashovaknown as Shakro-young, Marina Goldberg owned an apartment with an area of over 600 square meters. m and cost about $5 million on the 34th floor of the famous Burj Khalifa skyscraper. But she sold it no later than 2021. And the famous Anna Chapman – a Russian intelligence agent who was exposed by the FBI in 2010 – owned a small apartment worth $600,000 in Marina Vista, a seaside residential complex overlooking the marina in the Dubai Marina district.
Former head of the department for economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Zelenograd, lieutenant colonel Vadim Bazarov escaped from the investigation in his personal Gelendvagen, having managed to take cash and jewelry from his house, and was put on the wanted list in 2020. He was suspected of taking money from entrepreneurs, threatening to stop or completely destroy the business. A criminal case was opened against the lieutenant colonel under the article of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.
The leak shows that Bazarov owns a villa and two apartments in Dubai. Lieutenant Colonel's Villa with an area of 644 sq. m, although not on an artificial island, but in the prestigious Jumeirah Village Circle in the center of New Dubai. And the apartments (119 and 77 sq. m.) are in the premium residential complexes Shams 2 on the seashore and Botanica Tower 1 in Dubai Marina, overlooking the same Palm Jumeirah. All of Bazarov’s Dubai real estate at current prices costs about $1.8 million.
“Corrupt officials and PEPs, avoiding public scrutiny, use closed jurisdictions such as the UAE to hide assets in plain sight,” says Maria Guiditta Borselli of C4ADS. Another expert at the nonprofit, Denise Sprimont-Vasquez, adds that such investigations show governments that encourage illegal activity that they need to increase transparency.
jackpoulson.substack.com, 09/19/2023, Translation: via deepl.com, “Surveillance firm backed by Google and CIA allegedly doesn't pay $370,000 a month in rent”: The Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) is the de facto think tank of the intelligence company Palantir. — Insertion K.ru
The American Prospect, 09.13.2021, Translation: via deepl.com, “Why we should watch the sale of surveillance technology”: So-called “publicly available information” (PAI) is aggregated on the US Army's Secure Unclassified Network (SUNet), with heavy use of data fusion software from the notorious surveillance technology company Palantir. The main contractor for these projects is called ECS Federal, and previously led a similar public information consolidation effort for the elite U.S. Special Operations Command and its J2 intelligence agency. Presumably, commandos also consider Internet surveillance a useful component of their situational awareness.
An entire industry of civil society organizations is involved in laundering the results of intelligence operations. Many oft-cited research institutes, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), worked under subcontracts with the US government along with location tracking data brokers Venntel and X-Mode Social (now Outlogic). In the case of C4ADS, the subcontract was awarded to the CIA's closest equivalent, the Defense Intelligence Agency. (Perhaps the internal data analytics platform C4ADS, built on Palantir software, should have been a clue.) Since then, C4ADS has been regularly featured in both The New York Times and BuzzFeed News when analyzing U.S. geostrategic competitors—C4ADS even contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series. — Insertion K.ru