“ Ukrainian and Belarusian investigative journalists investigated that the Cypriot company owned by the mother of the wanted businessman Vitaly Bobyr provided loans in 2024 to a Russian firm that is building the country resort complex “Krasnaya Polyana” for the self-proclaimed leader of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenka. Source: Slidstva.Info investigation and BRC Details: According to the investigation, the Cypriot Rostumel Holding Limited in 2024 provided a $1.5 million loan to the Russian firm Komplex-invest, which is the initiator of the construction of the residence. According to journalists, its co-founder is Oleksandr Romanovskyi, a former employee of Lukashenka’s Security Service. According to the ex-director of Komplex-invest, the company is financed exclusively from borrowed funds. The investigators established that most of the creditors are companies connected to Lukashenka’s entourage. Among them is “Rostumel Holding Limited”, which is owned by 72-year-old Lviv woman Iryna Bobir. Literally: “She is the mother of Vitaliy Bobir, a businessman who has been wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine since May 2023. Bobir, the special service reported, supplied Rolls-Royces and Maybachs to Belarus and Russia to circumvent sanctions. In addition, Vitaliy Bobir is involved in transshipment of sanctioned Belarusian mineral fertilizers at the port St. Petersburg. This was discussed in the investigation of the “Schemes” project. Details: As reported, in March 2023, as part of criminal proceedings, a court in Kyiv seized items found on Vitaly Bobir during searches: documents, equipment and seals of two dozen companies from Ukraine, one from Belarus, and two from Cyprus. One of them is the same “Rostumel Holding Limited”. “In a correspondence on one of the confiscated phones, Bobir claimed that his godfather is a high-ranking Belarusian official, “the second person in Belarus.” With a high probability, it was about one of Lukashenka’s closest associates, Viktor Sheiman, former head of the Administration of the President of Belarus,” the investigation says. In response to questions from “Slidstva.Info” journalists about financing the construction of the “Krasnaya Polyana” complex, Vitaly Bobir said: “I don’t understand what you’re talking about at all. My mother is not the owner of any company.” It is noted that the investigators were unable to communicate with Iryna Bobir. According to journalists who received a video of the construction of the residence from a drone and according to the documentation, the complex consists of the main house (3,000 square meters), three cottages (700 “squares” each, each with a swimming pool and a bathhouse), buildings for security and staff. Construction the fence provides protection against undermining. The main house is designed with the use of a wheelchair in mind (the problems of the self-proclaimed leader of Belarus with his knee and back were reported by the media). “In April 2024, activists of the Belpol initiative said that the Krasnaya Polyana hotel complex is the future residence of Alexander Lukashenko. The facility is located in a mountainous area, 40 kilometers from the Russian resort city of Sochi,” the investigation says.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
photo: “Investigation.Info”, BRC Source: investigation of Slidstva.Info and BRC
Details: According to the investigation, the Cypriot “Rostumel Holding Limited” in 2024 provided a $1.5 million loan to the Russian company “Komplex-invest”, which is the initiator of the construction of the residence.
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According to journalists, its co-founder is Oleksandr Romanovskyi, a former employee of Lukashenka’s Security Service. According to the ex-director of Komplex-invest, the company is financed exclusively from borrowed funds.
The investigators established that most of the creditors are companies connected to Lukashenka’s entourage. Among them is “Rostumel Holding Limited”, which is owned by 72-year-old Lviv woman Iryna Bobir.
Literally: “She is the mother of Vitaliy Bobir, a businessman who has been wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine since May 2023. Bobir, the intelligence service reported, supplied Rolls-Royces and Maybachs to Belarus and Russia to circumvent sanctions. In addition, Vitaliy Bobir is involved in the transshipment of sanctioned Belarusian mineral fertilizers at the port St. Petersburg. This was discussed in the investigation of the “Schemes” project.
Details: As reported, in March 2023, as part of criminal proceedings, a court in Kyiv seized items found on Vitaly Bobir during searches: documents, equipment and seals of two dozen companies from Ukraine, one from Belarus, and two from Cyprus. One of them is the same “Rostumel Holding Limited”.
“In correspondence on one of the confiscated phones, Bobir claimed that his godfather is a high-ranking Belarusian official, the “second person in Belarus”. It is highly likely that he was talking about one of Lukashenka’s closest associates, Viktor Sheiman, a former head of the Office of the President of Belarus,” the investigation says.
In response to a question from Slidstva.Info journalists about financing the construction of the Krasnaya Polyana complex, Vitaly Bobir said: “I don’t understand what you’re talking about at all. My mother is not the owner of any company.”
It is noted that the investigators were unable to communicate with Iryna Bobir.
According to journalists who received a video of the construction of the residence from a drone and according to the documentation, the complex consists of the main house (3,000 square meters), three cottages (700 “squares” each, each with a swimming pool and a bathhouse), buildings for security and staff. The design of the fence provides protection against undermining. The main house is designed with the use of a wheelchair in mind (the problems of the self-proclaimed leader of Belarus with his knee and back were reported by the media).
“The fact that the Krasnaya Polyana hotel complex is the future residence of Alexander Lukashenko was revealed in April 2024 by activists of the Belpol initiative. The object is located in a mountainous area, 40 kilometers from the Russian resort city of Sochi,” the investigation says.