Two companies that Russian state banker Andrei Kostin allegedly used to control a pair of megayachts were transferred to secretive Cyprus investment funds on the eve of the Ukraine invasion, making it impossible to see who owned them, financial records show.
The Cypriot company hired to move sanctioned Belarusian potash through a Russian port has links to a former public official in Lukashenko’s government.
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