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Oligarch files

The Oligarch files is a cache of confidential documents leaked from the offshore service provider MeritServus, which is based in Cyprus – a haven for wealthy Russians looking to harbour their fortunes. The files were shared with the Guardian by an anonymous third party.

10 May 2024

  • Valerie Oyf, owner of Vitesse, and the former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich

    Abramovich loans fund owner of Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest

  • Vitesse Arnhem supporters with a banner saying ‘Football clubs were born to represent communities, not fans’ at a home match with Twente in March 2024

    Geopolitics comes to Vitesse: how ‘Chelsea B’ were swallowed by Abramovich associates

22 September 2023

  • Oligarch trail

    ‘You could fill a museum with it’: the $963m Roman Abramovich art collection revealed

  • Jonathan Jones

    Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

    Jonathan Jones

22 April 2023

  • St Nicholas Russian Orthodox church in Limassol, Cyprus

    ‘Our credibility must be safeguarded’: Cyprus in turmoil after Russia sanctions

    Island shuts 10,000 Russian bank accounts as US and UK put Cypriot lawyers and accountants under sanctions for enabling oligarchs including Roman Abramovich

18 April 2023

  • OLIGARCH 2 copy

    The Cyprus connection: the family firm that helped pour Abramovich’s millions into Chelsea

  • Konstantin Malofeyev

    Revealed: how Cypriot firm helped the ‘Orthodox oligarch’ after he was placed under sanctions

17 April 2023

  • The information came to light in the Oligarch files, a cache of leaked data.

    Offshore cash and huge loans: leak reveals how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea’s success

    Exclusive: Network of companies used to route fortune made from the oil fields of Siberia into Stamford Bridge

12 April 2023

  • Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abromavich pictured in 2009.

    UK imposes sanctions on ‘enablers’ accused of helping Russian oligarchs

    ‘Financial fixers’ alleged to have helped Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov to hide assets are among those targeted

29 March 2023

  • Graphic: Roman Abramovich and footballers

    Roman Abramovich secretly bankrolled Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest

    Exclusive: Files reveal €117m in loans for Vitesse Arnhem originated with then owner of Chelsea, despite repeated denials

30 January 2023

  • Illustration of Roman Abramovich with Barclays and UBS logos

    Barclays and UBS face questions over Roman Abramovich’s billion-dollar trusts

    Exclusive: Leak shows oligarch was a major client of Barclays in Monaco and UBS in Zurich, with at least $940m in assets held at the banks

6 January 2023

  • Illustration of Roman Abramovich and his Kensington property

    Leak reveals Roman Abramovich’s billion-dollar trusts transferred before Russia sanctions

    Exclusive: Files raise questions about whether oligarch’s children were made beneficiaries to protect fortune from possible asset freezes
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