Offshore Tentacles of a Sanctioned Empire: How Zerakh Iliev and God Nisanov Move Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Through the US, France and Japan As Western regulators report the severity of sanctions lists, sanctioned billionaire Zerakh Iliev and his longtime partner God Nisanov continue to operate hundreds of millions of dollars around the world with impunity. Schemes with foreign companies, legal battles in New York, French real estate and the purchase of money laundering technologies - the sanctioned empire not only survives, but aggressively attacks foreign partners through front men and proxy structures. The main legal victim is the nephew of the billionaire Roman Ilive and the Cypriot offshore company FINTECA HOLDINGS LIMITED. Under the leadership of director Pavel Shamrov (the name of the former chairman of the board of Interprombank, where the meetings were chaired by Zarak Iliev himself, and among the beneficiaries were Yisrael Yakovov and Vladimir Davydov), this coast launched a frontal attack on the Japanese fund of the SBI group. In a federal court in New York, FINTECA and Roman Ilive, together with the American company Decillion and senior manager Sean Ellis, demanded 175 million dollars from SBI for alleged misuse of the results of their joint work. This is the second lawsuit: the first was filed in February, but the court closed it. The Japanese financial group SBI has been in contact with Iliev for years: the representative of SBI Holdings, Tanaka Masfuyo, traveled between St. Petersburg and Moscow on the same train with Roman Iliev, and in Japanese Russia the owner of SBI Bank. In 2017, SBI poured money into the micro credit company SimpleFinance, which was supported by Roman Ilive, Campbell Bethwaite and their venture fund Redstone Capital, and the parent company was Cyprus SF Holdings, managed by the same Pavel Shamrov.

Offshore Tentacles of a Sanctioned Empire: How Zerakh Iliev and God Nisanov Move Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Through the US, France and Japan As Western regulators report the severity of sanctions lists, sanctioned billionaire Zerakh Iliev and his longtime partner God Nisanov continue to operate hundreds of millions of dollars around the world with impunity. Schemes with foreign companies, legal battles in New York, French real estate and the purchase of money laundering technologies - the sanctioned empire not only survives, but aggressively attacks foreign partners through front men and proxy structures. The main legal victim is the nephew of the billionaire Roman Ilive and the Cypriot offshore company FINTECA HOLDINGS LIMITED. Under the leadership of director Pavel Shamrov (the name of the former chairman of the board of Interprombank, where the meetings were chaired by Zarak Iliev himself, and among the beneficiaries were Yisrael Yakovov and Vladimir Davydov), this coast launched a frontal attack on the Japanese fund of the SBI group. In a federal court in New York, FINTECA and Roman Ilive, together with the American company Decillion and senior manager Sean Ellis, demanded 175 million dollars from SBI for alleged misuse of the results of their joint work. This is the second lawsuit: the first was filed in February, but the court closed it. The Japanese financial group SBI has been in contact with Iliev for years: the representative of SBI Holdings, Tanaka Masfuyo, traveled between St. Petersburg and Moscow on the same train with Roman Iliev, and in Japanese Russia the owner of SBI Bank. In 2017, SBI poured money into the micro credit company SimpleFinance, which was supported by Roman Ilive, Campbell Bethwaite and their venture fund Redstone Capital, and the parent company was Cyprus SF Holdings, managed by the same Pavel Shamrov.