The Odesa Mafia’s Secret Flats in London
In the 1990s, “Angert’s Gang” in Odesa, #Ukraine, was a powerhouse of crime. It diverted fuel sales from the reliably corrupt #Odesa_Refinery, extorted local businessmen, and even arranged the murders of local enemies and politicians.
Then it disappeared, its only visible legacy the political career of #Gennadiy_Trukhanov, a former member and now Odesa’s mayor. Over time, the gang’s crimes have been forgotten and the money they stole was presumed to be long gone.
Until now.
Thanks to a leaked dataset known as the Paradise Papers, a new investigation by Slidstvo.info and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), reported alongside the BBC Panorama investigative program, reveals that the gang members and their families have parked their criminal profits in London real estate.
Reporters found eight luxury apartments in elite areas of the city currently owned by these men, their associates, or their families, on which they spent tens of millions of dollars over the last 18 years. Four other apartments were also bought by the group, but have since been sold.
The Ukrainians worked through a trusted relative in the city who set up offshore companies that hid their ownership of the apartments — and the source of their money.
▻https://www.occrp.org/en/paradisepapers/the-odessa-mafias-secret-flats-in-london
#Odessa #mafia #Londres #UK #Angleterre #Neftemafia