As head of Azerbaijan’s parliament for 14 years, Oktay Asadov received a modest official salary. So how did his wife, daughters, and former son-in-law afford luxury apartments in London, Moscow, and Dubai?
A vast network of offshore companies, administered by service provider Trident Trust and fronted by a small group of trusted cronies, helped the Aliyevs secretly own vast real estate holdings in the British capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.
Two oligarchs known to be close to the ‘Leader of the Nation’ were involved in a complex offshore arrangement that ended in a mysterious $30 million payment to his unofficial third wife.
YouTube videos posted by the Russian Orthodox Church, Foreign Ministry sources, and multiple flight records helped reporters identify a longtime companion of Russia’s pugnacious foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
The CEO of Equatorial Guinea's state oil company is accused of skimming petroleum profits, while reporters have linked him to luxury properties around the world.
The couple has agreed to forfeit over £4 million that they had received from the Azerbaijani Laundromat, a massive money laundering system, to the authorities. The properties will not be seized.
According to an associate, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy customs chief had to raise money from friends and relatives to pay the fine. This didn’t appear to prevent him from buying a new penthouse right next door to his old one.
The 33-year-old son of Oleg Toni has homes on the French Riviera, a Paris apartment, property on Spain's Mediterranean coast, and much more. Many of the properties are owned through secretive companies registered in Luxembourg.
Raimbek Matraimov is a powerful Kyrgyz political operator known for his massive wealth. This investigation into his wife’s social media accounts reveals the opulent lifestyle his family enjoyed even as he declared only a modest salary in the country’s customs service.
Gabon's ruling Bongo family and their inner circle have bought at least seven properties worth over US$4.2 million in and near the U.S. capital, a destination whose real estate has long attracted African dictators.
After a Turkish conglomerate won a major contract to build a dam in Azerbaijan, a mysterious $3 million was sent to an offshore firm — which then bought the luxurious London flat where an Azeri official’s son was living.
The family of Azerbaijan’s former security chief has built up a business and property empire in Europe worth over 100 million euros
With his official salary, it would take the head bodyguard of Russia’s prime minister more than 100 years to pay for this luxury home.
The family of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a controversial elder statesman of Russian politics and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, owns undeclared property worth an estimated $135 million.
Current and former members of parliament, tax officials, honorary diplomats, and other Armenian officials have purchased expensive properties in Dubai — raising questions about how they could afford them.
The daughter of a top Moldovan judge lived large in London thanks to 1.6 million lei (US$ 130,000) that was channeled through two companies involved in the Russian Laundromat -- a massive money laundering scheme that pumped billions of dollars through Moldova from Russia.
Judging from Odesa Mayor Hennady Trukhanov’s latest income declaration, he has no foreign business interests. Zero.
Russia’s former minister of industry acquired stakes in golf courses worth many millions. The properties were once owned by people associated with a major pipe manufacturer that would have fallen under his purview as minister.
Kristina Brazauskienė, the widow of Lithuania’s former Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, is under investigation for tax fraud.
When Lyudmila Putin, 59, divorced Russian President Vladimir Putin and married the director of a Russian non-profit organization, she might have expected that her days of living in opulent luxury were over.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and his family own seven properties worth more than € 1 million in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and recently sold an eighth.
