Owner of U.S.-seized Russian tanker identified as ally of Moldovan fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor
1d 14h ago by mander.xyz/u/Sepia in europe@feddit.org from theins.ru
The owner of the tanker Bella 1/Marinera (which was seized on Jan. 7 in the North Atlantic by U.S. forces) turned out to be the Russian company Burevestmarin. The firm’s founder and sole owner is Ilya Bugai, a native of Chita who now lives in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports, citing data from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Russia’s Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
Burevestmarin was registered in Ryazan six months ago and, judging by job postings, was indeed engaged in maritime transportation. Since 2018, Bugai has served as CEO of Rusneftekhimtorg, a company that trades petroleum products. After 2020, that firm’s revenue declined sharply, and in 2024 it posted losses.
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Ilan Shor — a fugitive Moldovan oligarch sentenced in his home country to seven years and six months in prison for the theft of $1 billion from the country’s banking system — previously chaired Avia Invest’s administrative board. Working with Promsvyazbank, Shor also created the cryptocurrency company A7, which helps Russian businesses carry out international settlements in circumvention of U.S. sanctions.
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