The money trail

Money

Loan

deals

Money

Loan

deals

Igora

Ozon

Sandal-

wood

RCB of

Cyprus

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Igora

Ozon

Sandal-

wood

RCB of

Cyprus

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend

How Putin's ‘personal bank’ moved money offshore and returned it to Russia

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus

A subsidiary of Russia's state-owned VTB bank at the time. RCB made massive unsecured loans to Sandalwood, extending $650m in credit

 

Sandalwood Continental Ltd

An offshore firm set up in the British Virgin Islands. Between 2009 and 2012 it got more than $1bn in loans. The cash came from state banks and other offshores

 

Ozon

Ozon owns the private Igora ski resort outside St Petersburg. In 2010/11 Sandalwood lent Ozon $11.3m. Putin's daughter Katya got married at the resort in 2013

Swiss lawyers

Lawyers from Dietrich Baumgartner and Partners in Zurich received instructions from Bank Rossiya and passed them on to Mossack Fonseca

 

Mossack Fonseca

Panamanian law firm that registers and runs offshore firms. It set up Sandalwood and other offshores linked to Roldugin

Bank Rossiya

Closely associated with Putin and his friends. Its managers were behind billions of dollars in suspicious offshore transactions

Offshore

Facilitators

Russia

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend

Money

Loan

deals

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Igora

Ozon

Sandal-

wood

RCB of

Cyprus

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend

How Putin's ‘personal bank’ moved money offshore and returned it to Russia

Offshore

Facilitators

Russia

Bank Rossiya

Closely associated with Putin and his friends. Its managers were behind billions of dollars in suspicious offshore transactions

 

Swiss lawyers

Lawyers from Dietrich Baumgartner and Partners in Zurich received instructions from Bank Rossiya and passed them on to Mossack Fonseca

 

Mossack Fonseca

Panamanian law firm that registers and runs offshore firms. It set up Sandalwood and other offshores linked to Roldugin

 

Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus

A subsidiary of Russia's state-owned VTB bank at the time. RCB made massive unsecured loans to Sandalwood, extending $650m in credit

Sandalwood Continental Ltd

An offshore firm set up in the British Virgin Islands. Between 2009 and 2012 it got more than $1bn in loans. The cash came from state banks and other offshores

 

Ozon

Ozon owns the private Igora ski resort outside St Petersburg. In 2010/11 Sandalwood lent Ozon $11.3m. Putin's daughter Katya got married at the resort in 2013

Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus

A subsidiary of Russia's state-owned VTB bank at the time. RCB made massive unsecured loans to Sandalwood, extending $650m in credit

 

Sandalwood Continental Ltd

An offshore firm set up in the British Virgin Islands. Between 2009 and 2012 it got more than $1bn in loans. The cash came from state banks and other offshores

 

Ozon

Ozon owns the private Igora ski resort outside St Petersburg. In 2010/11 Sandalwood lent Ozon $11.3m. Putin's daughter Katya got married at the resort in 2013

Bank Rossiya

Closely associated with Putin and his friends. Its managers were behind billions of dollars in suspicious offshore transactions

 

Swiss lawyers

Lawyers from Dietrich Baumgartner and Partners in Zurich received instructions from Bank Rossiya and passed them on to Mossack Fonseca

 

Mossack Fonseca

Panamanian law firm that registers and runs offshore firms. It set up Sandalwood and other offshores linked to Roldugin

How Putin's ‘personal bank’ moved money offshore and returned it to Russia

Money

Loan deals

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Offshore

Facilitators

Russia

Igora

Ozon

Sandal-

wood

RCB of

Cyprus

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend

Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus

A subsidiary of Russia's state-owned VTB bank at the time. RCB made massive unsecured loans to Sandalwood, extending $650m in credit

 

Sandalwood Continental Ltd

An offshore firm set up in the British Virgin Islands. Between 2009 and 2012 it got more than $1bn in loans. The cash came from state banks and other offshores

 

Ozon

Ozon owns the private Igora ski resort outside St Petersburg. In 2010/11 Sandalwood lent Ozon $11.3m. Putin's daughter Katya got married at the resort in 2013

Bank Rossiya

Closely associated with Putin and his friends. Its managers were behind billions of dollars in suspicious offshore transactions

 

Swiss lawyers

Lawyers from Dietrich Baumgartner and Partners in Zurich received instructions from Bank Rossiya and passed them on to Mossack Fonseca

 

Mossack Fonseca

Panamanian law firm that registers and runs offshore firms. It set up Sandalwood and other offshores linked to Roldugin

How Putin's ‘personal bank’ moved money offshore and returned it to Russia

Money

Loan deals

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Offshore

Facilitators

Russia

Igora

Ozon

Sandalwood

RCB of

Cyprus

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend

How Putin's ‘personal bank’ moved money offshore and returned it to Russia

Money

Loan deals

Yuri

Kovalchuk

Boss

Bank Rossiya

Closely associated with Putin and his friends. Its managers were behind billions of dollars in suspicious offshore transactions

 

Swiss lawyers

Lawyers from Dietrich Baumgartner and Partners in Zurich received instructions from Bank Rossiya and passed them on to Mossack Fonseca

 

Mossack Fonseca

Panamanian law firm that registers and runs offshore firms. It set up Sandalwood and other offshores linked to Roldugin

 

Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus

A subsidiary of Russia's state-owned VTB bank at the time. RCB made massive unsecured loans to Sandalwood, extending $650m in credit

 

Sandalwood Continental Ltd

An offshore firm set up in the British Virgin Islands. Between 2009 and 2012 it got more than $1bn in loans. The cash came from state banks and other offshores

 

Ozon

Ozon owns the private Igora ski resort outside St Petersburg. In 2010/11 Sandalwood lent Ozon $11.3m. Putin's daughter Katya got married at the resort in 2013

Offshore

Facilitators

Russia

Igora

Ozon

Sandalwood

RCB of

Cyprus

Mossack

Fonseca

Swiss

lawyers

Bank

Rossiya

Sergei

Roldugin

Friend