Wealthy Armenians Join the Dubai Land Rush
Current and former members of parliament, tax officials, honorary diplomats, and other Armenian officials have...
Dubai’s Golden Sands
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Stories
How to Inherit a Villa, Kremlin Style
An $8 million villa on Dubai’s luxurious Palm Jumeirah has been controlled for years by the family of Igor...
Dubai’s Golden Sands
Dubai’s secretive offshore financial system seems to play a role in almost every international corruption scandal....
British Financier Under Investigation for Tax Fraud Owned $56 Million in Dubai Properties
A major leak of privately collected property data in Dubai has revealed the enormous wealth amassed by a...
The Klepto Hills
The Emirates Hills are known as the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.” It’s an exclusive housing estate where gleaming...
Nigerian Oil and Dubai Land
A leak of private property data in Dubai has shed new light on how the proceeds of a notorious US$ 1.3 billion oil...
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Profiles
Kamchybek Kolbayev
In March 2011, investigators in Kyrgyzstan arrested a man in the outskirts of the capital Bishkek. At his...
Khadem Al Qubaisi and Tasameem Real Estate
Khadem Al Qubaisi is an Emirati businessman who, while in charge of two Abu Dhabi state companies, enriched...
Vasily Khristoforov
Drug trafficker and Russian organized crime figure Vasily Khristoforov was designated by the US Treasury in 2017...
Guerman Goutorov
Guerman Goutorov is the chairman of the Canada-based Streit Group, one of the world’s largest private armored...
Hossein Pournaghshband
Hossein Pournaghshband, an Iranian citizen, was sanctioned by the United States in January 2016 for allegedly...
Kambiz Mahmoud Rostamian
Kambiz Mahmoud Rostamian, an Iranian citizen, was sanctioned by the United States in February 2016 for allegedly...
Mohamed Tajideen
Mohamed Tajideen is the son of Kassim Tajideen, a Lebanese-Belgian citizen the United States has called an...
Othman El Ballouti
For two years, Othman El Ballouti, allegedly one of Europe’s major cocaine traffickers, has been on the run from...
Sami Bebawi
Sami Bebawi was a vice president of Montreal-based engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin, from 2000 to 2006. He stands...
Suleiman Marouf
Suleiman Marouf is a Syrian businessman who has been called Bashar al-Assad’s “fixer.”
Adnan Khamis Abuzanat
Adnan Khamis Abuzanat, a Minnesota businessman, was involved in a health care fraud scheme that cheated the state...
Hassein Eduardo Figueroa Gomez
Hassein Eduardo Figueroa Gomez is the son of an established drug trafficker.
Flamur and Fatmir Azemi
On the night of Dec. 11, 2013 in Prague’s Old Town, four men jumped out of a Porsche Cayenne on Kaprova Street and...
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The Properties
The following persons of interest appear in a private database compiled by real estate and property professionals, provided to C4ADS, and shared with OCCRP. The UAE real estate data — which appears to mostly represent ownership but also leasing of properties — is believed to have been generated between 2014 and 2016. The data is assessed as credible, but it does not constitute evidence of the same quality as an official property deed. Though most of the individuals in the database didn’t respond to requests for comment, the names have been verified using addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and interviews. Their inclusion on the list does not, in itself, imply any wrongdoing.
The following persons of interest appear in a private database compiled by real estate and property professionals, provided to C4ADS, and shared with OCCRP. The UAE real estate data — which appears to mostly represent ownership but also leasing of properties — is believed to have been generated between 2014 and 2016. The data is assessed as credible, but it does not constitute evidence of the same quality as an official property deed. Though most of the individuals in the database didn’t respond to requests for comment, the names have been verified using addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and interviews. Their inclusion on the list does not, in itself, imply any wrongdoing.