Bulgaria confiscates passports from children of Russian oligarch Adonyev after journalistic investigation
US sanctions were recently imposed on Adoniev
An investigation by Bivol led to the deprivation of Bulgarian citizenship of the sons of Russian telecommunications tycoon and Yota founder Sergei Adoniev.
This was reported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice in response to a journalistic request from Bivol regarding the inclusion of Adoniev and his two sons, who live in London, on the US sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act.
Source. This was reported by The Insider.
Adoniev's Bulgarian passport was revoked back in 2018, when Bivol and The Insider reported that the businessman not only did not invest in the local economy but was also under investigation in the United States for smuggling tons of cocaine.
On January 27, 2023, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions under the Magnitsky Act against a number of Russian citizens, including the founder of telecommunications companies Yota Phone and Yota Mobile, Sergey Adoniev, and his children.
The sanctions list also includes vehicles that, according to the US Treasury Department, are linked to Adoniev. These include his private jet Bombardier Global 6000 and two luxury yachts – Addiction and Anatta.
The company of Adoniev's children in Luxembourg owns a villa in France. In 2022, Adoniev's sons came to the attention of the OCCRP while working on the international LuxLeaks project. Luka and Filip Adoniev are mentioned in an article about children of oligarchs and politicians who are beneficiaries of companies and real estate in Luxembourg.
As previously reported by The Insider and Bivol, in 1998, Adonyev was convicted in the United States for defrauding the government of Kazakhstan of $4 million by falsely supplying Cuban sugar. In 1999, Adonyev was deported from the United States to Russia, where he managed to create a telecommunications empire, receiving investments and support from various figures connected to the Kremlin and state-owned companies.
In 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that the FBI also suspected Adonyev of being behind a 1.1 ton shipment of Colombian cocaine seized at the Russian-Finnish border in 1993.
Background. It has become known that a Ukrainian court has arrested the assets of Russian oligarch Shelkov worth UAH 20 million.
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