Court documents filed last week in an attempt by the US government to hijack the billionaire’s expensive private jets revealed the intricate machinations he has used to shield his vast fortune, the Sunday Times in London have revealed. In an affidavit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York, FBI Special Agent Alan Fowler wrote that Abramovich, a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin, used a number of shell companies to buy the two airplanes. The $ 60 million Gulfstream G650ERa and a $ 350 million custom Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, one of the most expensive private jets in the world. In February 2022 – just days before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 sparked sanctions against the Russian president’s oligarchic comrades – Abramovich made some or all seven children of the beneficiary of the Cyprus-based Europa Settlement Trust. document. The Europa Trust controls the shell companies that, on paper, own Abramovich jets, many yachts, a helicopter and other assets, Fowler found. Roman Abramovich speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a business meeting in Sochi, Russia on July 19, 2016. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images Abramovich owned the Chelsea football team in London before being sanctioned by .AP Photo / Martin Meissner, FileRoman Abramovich’s Gulfstream aircraft was worth about $ 60 million. U.S. Attorney for Southern Dis / AFP via Getty Images Abramovich’s Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is valued at $ 350 million. Sofia Abramovich.Mike Egerton / PA Images via Getty Images Abramovich, who made his fortune through Russian energy companies in the early years of Putin’s “KGB capitalism” and rose to fame as the fancy owner of the Chelsea football club in London, has four daughters and three sons between the ages of 8 and 30. – all who have dual citizenship in Russia and either in Britain or in the USA.
