Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds

In 2022, Panorama also reported that Abramovich had made his fortune through a corrupt deal to buy a Russian state-owned oil company in the 1990s, then sell it back to the government a decade later for billions in profit.

Chateau de la Croe (top left) in the south of France, Fyning Hill in Sussex and two superyachts vanished from company accounts The evidence is contained in a leak that includes thousands of documents about the oligarch's finances and the operations of a network of offshore companies administered from Cyprus, which was a tax haven popular with Russians, between 1995 and 2022.

Deloitte in Cyprus appears to have advised Abramovich's company on a scheme to evade tax To keep them secret, Abramovich's associates and Meritservus decided to rewrite history.