The collaboration, which included over journalists from 54 countries and one territory around the world, parsed through a 3. But in the cache of data, our partners found other characters as well. Here are a few stories you may have missed from Cyprus Confidential. The 3. The partner organizations shared all the leaked records in the project with ICIJ, which structured, stored and translated them from several languages before sharing them with journalists from around the world.
Additional records came from Latvia-based Dataset SIA, which maintains the i-Cyprus website, through which it sells information about Cyprus companies, including Cyprus corporate registry documents. After a turn with a star chef in London, he was then hired by Abramovich at the age of 25 in , Der Standard reports. As a non-public figure, the former chef remains anonymous. The movie, which took eight years to produce and debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in , tells the story of Anne Frank by animating Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom she penned her diary.
According to Reporter. Documents show how his company promised funding on the condition that the agreement be kept secret, that Abramovich be permitted to visit the studios at any time, and that the producer grant his representatives access to the director and other artists.
The reason for the secretive nature of the funding remains a mystery. But Abramovich, Reporter. In the early s, an Israeli company decided to invest in casinos in Morocco, before the two countries normalized relations in Cyprus Confidential documents show how shell companies were set up in Cyprus and elsewhere to facilitate the business dealings β and the strange conflict that followed, according to Moroccan partner Le Desk. In July , the director of an Israeli holding company dedicated to residential and hotel real estate, the Red Sea Group, reached out to Demetris Ioannides, a financial fixer in Cyprus, Le Desk reported.
Now sanctioned for his close ties to Russian oligarchs, Ioaniddes founded the financial services firm Meritservus and, at one point, headed the Cypriot arm of Deloitte. Nearly 15 years later, the Israeli businessmen sold the two casinos to a Spanish group called Cirsa. But three years later, those assets were at the center of a tussle between Cirsa and the Red Sea Group after Cirsa was audited by Moroccan authorities, Le Desk reports.
