In 2020, the newspaper “Evening Murmansk” named the billionaire Vyacheslav Kantor (11th place on the Forbes list, condition dollars) almost the best friend of Vladimir Putin. The advertising note became the basis for Kantor’s inclusion in EU sanctions list: Now the billionaire cannot travel to his beloved Sardinia. Kantor owns the Akron fertilizer plant and runs the European Jewish Congress.
Kantor’s lawyers dispute personal sanctions and insist that in fact he is all 11 billion earned it honestlyand I met Putin only briefly and has nothing to do with power.
This is, of course, a lie. The Dossier Center found out that the billionaire owes his fortune to a man named Yuri Zubakov – former deputy director of the SVR. Until 2011, Zubakov was part of Security Council and worked as Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. Zubakov was Kantor’s patron for a long time and even served on the board of directors of Akron. When the company had to be saved from sanctions, it the shares went to Zubakov’s daughter-in-law. Kantor’s connections with the security officers are family; his father, the director of a large department store, also enjoyed the patronage of the KGB.
If this proof of connection with the authorities of the European Union is not enough, we have one more: in November 2022, Kantor’s company paid vacation for almost a million rubles for a deputy Smolensk Duma from United Russia Yuri Chernyak. Whatever one may say, it’s a bribe—Akron’s large production facility is located in the Smolensk region.
But it’s better to listen to Kantor himself. In his interviews he endlessly praises Putin, repeats the points from the manuals word for word Russian propaganda and completely shares the course Russian authorities.
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How Vyacheslav Kantor, who made his fortune thanks to corruption and friendship with the security forces, is trying to escape Western sanctions
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