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Alexander mashkevich, one of jewish world's biggest philanthropists, suspected of organizing sex party on luxurious yacht seized by turkish police. his lawyer denies allegations, but yedioth ahronoth reveals what really happened on board.

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Beverly harbor yacht sighting fuels speculation: patch pm, also: list of what's opening in phase 3 on monday, governor calls out salem officials, casino sets reopening date and more..

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The arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell in New Hampshire Thursday morning on charges that she helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom and sexually exploit girls as young as 14, comes a day after a luxury yacht was seen in Beverly Harbor (above).

BEVERLY, MA —It's Thursday, July 2. Here's what Patch has been covering on the North Shore and across Massachusetts today.

The arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell in New Hampshire Thursday morning on charges that she helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom and sexually exploit girls as young as 14, comes a day after a luxury yacht was seen in Beverly Harbor. The yacht, which departed Wednesday, is owned by another billionaire linked to a decade-old sex scandal and is fueling speculation that the British socialite's arrest is somehow linked to the stopover in Beverly.

Maxwell, 57, reportedly lived at Tidewood Estate in Manchester-by-the-Sea with Scott Borgerson, chief executive of CargoMetrics Technologies and an ocean conservation activist, between 2016 and 2019 and after some of Epstein's victims accused her of having a role in their abuse.

Find out what's happening in Beverly with free, real-time updates from Patch.

The yacht that showed up in Beverly this week is owned by Alexander Mashkevitch, a Russian businessman and Jewish philanthropist with close ties to political leaders in Kazakhstan. It's not clear if Mashkevitch was on board the yacht when it anchored in Beverly Harbor, or if there is any connection to Maxwell's arrest.

In 2010 Turkish police seized another one of his yachts on suspicion that it had been used to host a sex party with nine young women, including two underage girls, for Kazakh businessmen. Mashkevich was not charged or arrested in the 2010 incident.

Also on the North Shore:

  • There's trash talk in Swampscott , with residents divided over new rules reducing the amount of garbage they can put out each week. In the fiscal year that began Tuesday, Swampscott is projecting trash hauling costs to rise between 26 and 46 percent, to somewhere between $95 and $105 from $75 per ton. The town said it conducted a trash audit and found that 45 percent of Swampscott households were throwing out one barrel or less of trash per week.
  • Four Salem city councilors were singled out by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for blocking housing projects . The Swampscott Republican called Mayor Kim Driscoll "my good friend" who has gotten "thwarted" when she presents housing initiatives to council under state law calling for two-thirds approval for the initiatives.
  • Another North Shore restaurant appears to have fallen victim to the coronavirus. Bancroft & Co. said it closed its location at the Northshore Mall in Peabody, but plans to open a new concept in the space this fall.

Across Massachusetts:

  • Phase three of Massachusetts's coronavirus reopening plan will begin Monday . It's the final phase before therapeutics or a vaccine is made available, Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday. With the announcement, the Encore Boston Harbor set its reopening date. Here's the full list of what can reopen in Phase 3 .
  • Patch updated its map and spreadsheet with the latest coronavirus data for every Massachusetts town .
  • Somerville became the first city in the country to recognize polyamorous relationships . Councilor Lance Davis, who introduced the ordinance, said he doesn't feel "it's the place of government to define a family."
  • A Groveland man is accused of following a Black woman as she drove up his street to pick up a bag of dog food. The 65-year-old man, whose name was not released by police, will be charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace.

And, finally today: Happy Fourth of July! Have a safe holiday weekend.

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Across the Former Soviet Union Wealthy Kazakh Businessman Looks to Make Mark on Jewish World

It took Alexander Mashkevich, a Jewish university lecturer in philology from the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, about a decade to become a billionaire. Now, Mashkevich — a leading industrialist and financier in neighboring Kazakhstan — has emerged as one of the most prominent and promising Jewish leaders in all of the former Soviet Union, and as someone with clear ambitions to play a leadership role in international Jewry.

Mashkevich, whose personal wealth is believed to top $1 billion, is the head of the Eurasian Group, one of the largest financial and industrial groups in Kazakhstan, with interests in metallurgy, coal, mining and banking.

Through his business holdings, he is believed to control as much as one-fourth of Kazakhstan’s economy.

Although he calls Kazakhstan, a predominantly Muslim Central Asian state rich with oil and other natural resources, his home, he usually travels the world with an Israeli passport in his pocket and rarely spends more than a week each month in Kazakhstan.

Mashkevich, 50, now spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year mainly to support Jewish religious life in Kazakhstan and to fund the activities of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, which he helped establish.

The group unites Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Pacific.

Although this figure is dwarfed by Lev Levayev, another Jewish businessman from Central Asia, it is enough to make Mashkevich a major player in Central Asian Jewish life.

"My interest in Jewish life is relatively new," Mashkevich admitted recently in a rare interview in the Kazakh capital of Astana.

Born into a Soviet Jewish family at a time when to live a Jewish life meant that one was courting danger, he said he developed his attachment to Judaism only recently.

"This comes from the inside, I cannot explain it," he said with a disarming smile.

That disarming smile is just part of his appealing personality.

Mashkevich is fit and tanned, and is very accessible at Jewish gatherings. He’s got a decent command of English, a soft spot for blue suits, and likes horseback riding, skiing and playing tennis.

Although he’s certainly not living a typical life for a Jew in Central Asia, his own family story is typical of many Jews in Central Asia.

Both of his parents moved East as refugees when the Nazis invaded the USSR in 1941. His father came from Lithuania, and his mother from Belarus.

Like many educated Jews on the outskirts of the Soviet empire, his parents rose to some prominence in their professions: His father was once the chief public-health doctor in Kyrgyzstan and his mother was a well-known lawyer.

Mashkevich said he has few Jewish memories from his childhood, but he remembers occasional visits as a child with his grandfather to a synagogue in the Kyrgyz capital of Frunze.

But it wasn’t until he attained success in the business world that he paid attention to his Jewish roots.

Some seven years ago he met a rabbi in Kazakhstan and began to pray regularly.

His spiritual quest came hand in hand with his interest in philanthropy.

"Once I realized that I could help the Jews I began to provide support to the synagogue, at first anonymously," he said.

He said a local Chabad rabbi once came to him with an idea to create and head up a brand-new Jewish group, the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan. "I rejected the idea, and it took quite a long time before I agreed."

Mashkevich says that despite his busy schedule and constant travels — he has homes in several places outside of Kazakhstan, including a manor outside of Brussels — he is now dealing with Jewish issues on a daily basis.

Mashkevich is widely known in Kazakhstan as a close ally of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s leader since it gained its independence in 1991.

Nazarbayev who has been criticized in the West for his authoritarian style and his tough handling of the opposition and the media, is nonetheless widely credited for his pro-free market stand and for his support of U.S.-led efforts against terrorism in a region plagued with Muslim extremism and separatism.

But some critics say Mashkevich needed his Jewish leadership role as a security policy that — due to his new stature as a Jewish leader with ties to world Jewry — would prevent him from being prosecuted should political climate in Kazakhstan change.

"Some buy themselves a security firm for $3 million; he bought himself the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress," said a prominent foreign Jewish leader on condition of anonymity, quoting the figure which Mashkevich is believed to have spent on the congress so far.

Mashkevich argues that the benefits of his role as a Jewish leader are doubtful given the possible anti-Semitic backlash.

"I do think I’m putting myself at risk by being engaged in Jewish philanthropy," he said.

Regardless of Mashkevich’s reasons for activity in the Jewish community, even his critics agree that he gave the Jews of Kazakhstan something they did not have before.

"Whatever his interest is, he definitely gave the Jewish community the weight and prestige it never had before," said a foreign Jewish leader who asked not to be identified.

Local Jews say they are grateful to Mashkevich for what he has given their community: prestige and wide acceptance that they have rarely enjoyed throughout Kazakh history.

"I admire everything he is doing for us," said Efraim Bron, a 68-year-old Jew from a village in southern Kazakhstan who was invited to take part in a recent synagogue dedication in Astana, the new Kazakh capital city, along with a couple of hundred of Jews from the provinces.

The shul, funded by Mashkevich, is called Beit Rachel, in honor of his late mother. Opened last month, it is believed to be the largest synagogue in Central Asia: it can probably accommodate the entire Jewish population of Astana, which is estimated at between 300 and 500 people.

The country’s Jewish community numbers anywhere between 7,000 and 20,000 people, with the majority living in Almaty, the country’s largest city and the capital until 1997.

In 1999, Mashkevich’s name appeared in media reports in the West in connection with an international money-laundering scandal when authorities in Belgium pressed charges against him and some of his business partners.

Mashkevich has denied the allegations as baseless, saying the scandal was created by some top Kazakh officials irritated by his growing influence in order to force Mashkevich leave the country.

Mashkevich said only Belgian judicial formalities have prevented it from being closed.

Some observers believe he is apparently trying to overcome this somewhat controversial international image by playing an increasingly active role as a Jewish leader.

Last year, he co-organized two major interfaith meetings in Almaty in which Nazarbayev emerged as a proponent of an international dialogue between Islam and Judaism.

More recently, Mashkevich visited Morocco when a group of U.S. Jewish leaders paid a historic visit to the Muslim country. Earlier this month, he was in Istanbul taking part in the dedication of a synagogue reopened after a terrorist attack last year.

In his own country, Mashkevich has been doing more than funding the construction of a large synagogue.

He has also been laying the groundwork for a visit to Tehran. The visit would represent a rare trip by a Jewish leader to the Islamic Republic.

Mashkevich told a recent meeting of the Eurasian Jewish Congress in Astana that the Iranian ambassador to Kazakhstan "is constantly updating me" on how the preparations for this visit are coming along.

Indeed, most believe Mashkevich has access to Tehran to discuss issues of Jewish concern because of the good relations Nazarbayev enjoys with top Iranian officials.

Mashkevich said he hoped that given the positive dynamics of Jewish life in the region, the quality and diversity of Jewish life in Kazakhstan should improve with time.

"This dynamic gives me hope that in 10 years it will be better than it is now. I see a future in this country," he said.

But like many wealthy people in the former Soviet Union, he prefers his own family to live abroad: His daughters, Anna, a 22-year-old graphic designer, and the 27-year-old Alla, an economist, both graduated from college in Great Britain and are now living in London.

Local Jewish leaders agree that the emergence of Mashkevich has radically changed the situation for the community in Kazakhstan.

"One day, a charismatic leader, someone who has money, appears," said Alexander Baron, president of the Mitsva association, an umbrella group for Jewish cultural and welfare centers in Kazakhstan. "We have instantly reached a higher level in everything we do."

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Chairman of the Board of Directors, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG)

Co-founder, shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources producer.

Headquartered in Luxembourg, ERG has a portfolio of production assets and development projects in 14 countries crossing four continents, and is represented by more than 75,000 people globally, being a major employer in the industry.

A carpet of money for the President of Guatemala: how a simple ambulance doctor from Almaty found himself at the center of an international scandal

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Eurasian Resources Group, controlled by the government of Kazakhstan (40%), as well as businessmen Alexander Mashkevich , Patokh Shodiev and the heirs of Alidzhan Ibragimov, found itself at the center of yet another corruption scandal, this time in Latin America.

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According to the Guatemalan prosecutor’s office, a certain “group of Russians” bribed the country’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, to obtain permission to build a new bulk cargo terminal in the country’s largest port, Santo Tomas de Castilla. The cash for the president was wrapped in a carpet before being handed over.

At the beginning of the summer, the anti-corruption agency of Guatemala tried to investigate the bribery case. Almost immediately, its head Juan Francisco Sandoval was fired, and then fled the country, taking with him all the evidence he had collected. Now he himself has become a defendant in the prosecution’s investigation into the disclosure of confidential information (the very evidence) – in particular, about persons who may be directly related to the transfer of money to the President of Guatemala.

We have collected all the important information about this incident, tell about its participants, as well as about the role of the “Eurasian Group” and Alexander Mashkevich personally.

Essence of the question 

According to the Guatemalan edition of Elperiodico, in mid-January, the director of the Swiss company International Metal Supply (IMS) Marina Pozzi Pedulla presented the IMS Atlantic Bulk Cargo subsidiary to the management of the Guatemalan National Port Company (Empornac) as a candidate for the management and construction of a new port terminal in the town of Puerto Barrios. …

Two months later, Atlantic Bulk Cargo was registered in the commercial register of Guatemala with an address that completely coincides with the commercial address of another Guatemalan subsidiary of IMS, the mining company Mayaniquel SA. A certain Andrei Antonov was appointed the legal representative of the company, which was supposed to start work in the port . It was about the construction of a terminal on an area of ​​at least 150 thousand square meters, which, after completion of the work, could handle up to 5 million tons of solid bulk materials per year. The project cost was estimated at $ 30 million.

International Metal Supply, headed by Marina Pozzi Pedulla, is registered in Switzerland at the same address as another company, where a woman also holds a leading position – Telf AG. This structure, in turn, is the main external trader of the products of the Eurasian Resources Group, which the group receives from the Kazakh projects Shubarkul Komir and Kazchrome.

International Metal Supply is affiliated with International Mineral Resources, owned by the Eurasian Resources Group, divided between the Committee for State Property and Privatization of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mashkevich, Shodiev and the heirs of Alidzhan Ibragimov.

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According to Guatemalan journalists, which they received from the escaped head of the anti-corruption department Juan Francisco Sandoval, in the second half of April a delegation of “Russian businessmen” landed in the capital of Guatemala, who were supposed to influence the decision on the choice of the final contractor for the development of the port.

As an argument, according to Sandoval, the visitors brought cash with them, which was wrapped in a carpet. After bandaging the gift with a red ribbon, they took it to the residence of the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei. It is not known what amount is in question, since the direct witness was present only during the transfer of the money already packed in a carpet – the source of the investigation worked as a bodyguard for one of the Russians.

A few months after the transfer of the carpet, Antonov asked to reduce the cost of renting a port building land from $ 4.5 to $ 1 per square meter. According to journalists, his request was granted.

After information about the possible bribery of the president appeared in the public domain, the national company decided to abandon the deal with Atlantic Bulk Cargo. But this was reported only in early September, when the scandal around the carpet with cash had already gained impressive momentum and the country’s prosecutor’s office began an investigation.

A doctor from Kazakhstan, two chop officers and a Moscow party girl 

Interestingly, initially, the visit of the Russians and their possible bribery of the President of Guatemala was associated with the supply of Sputnik V vaccines to this country (Russia disrupted supplies for the prepaid volume, which made the local Ministry of Health demand 5.8 billion rubles from Moscow). Later it became clear that the vaccine had nothing to do with it: the interest of the visitors was connected precisely with the mining industry and logistics.

Elperiodico journalists learned the names of several members of that scandalous delegation, the meeting with which was later confirmed by the Minister of Economy of Guatemala, Roberto Antonio Malouf Morales, calling them representatives of firms “working in the country for a long time.” However, according to him , there was no talk of business and the “businessmen” flew in to “enjoy the beauty of our country.”

The names of these businessmen are Sergey Kuvaev , Alesia Pribytkov , Natalya Lyubitskaya , a citizen of Kazakhstan, Alexander Solop , Alexander Vasyaev (in some publications, Vasiliev ), and an Israeli, Julian Shokron . It was these people, according to the former head of the anti-corruption department, who brought money into the country and organized their transfer to the President of Guatemala. We were able to identify some of them. It turned out to be a rather motley company.

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The first two from the list, Sergey Kuvaev and Alexey Pribytkov, are Muscovites. Kuvaev and Pribytkov are employees of the private security company Arsenal-99, both work there as a “senior security guard” with a monthly salary of 200 thousand rubles. Kuvaev is registered in Khrushchev in the Moscow region of Severnoye Izmailovo. There is also an apartment in Balashikha (103 m² purchased in 2013 with a mortgage) and a small private house in the same place. The profit is also registered in Khrushchev, but in Zelenograd near Moscow. Kuvaev and Pribytkov received their foreign passports on the same day on April 24, 2019.

The founder and general director of PSC Arsenal-99 LLC is Alexander Bogachev . According to leaks from Russian publicly available databases, Bogachev not only ran a private security company, but also worked in the security service of the Russian branch of the Eurasian Bank, which is part of the Eurasian Group. As a bank employee, he received a solid salary – more than 3.5 million rubles a year. At the same time, the private security company recorded on it showed a minimum profit of several hundred thousand rubles.

It is highly probable that Arsenal-99 is affiliated with ERG.

The third member of the “Russian delegation” is Natalya Lyubitskaya. In publicly available databases, she is mentioned as the deputy director of Stroy Consulting LLC (INN 7728214723, founder Boris Erusalimsky ) with a salary, like Kuvaev and Pribytkov, 200 thousand rubles. The main activity of the company is “Demolition and demolition of buildings”. At the end of 2020, Stroy Consulting received a loss of 2.3 million rubles (against a profit of 22 million rubles in 2019 and 78 million rubles in 2018). Lyubitskaya was also a co-founder of Advice LLC (in equal shares with a certain Olga Khartsiy ), registered at the same address as Stroy Consulting LLC. Last year, the unprofitable Advice LLC was liquidated. Olga Khartsy worked in several other companies, among the founders of which was Boris Yerusalimsky and associated with various construction works. All these companies existed for a relatively short time and were liquidated after receiving significant losses. We did not manage to find any obvious connection between the Eurasian group and the company where Natalia Lyubitskaya works now. But we found the connection with the “group of businessmen” who arrived in Guatemala by examining her Instagram , posts in which prove that she really was in Guatemala from April 22 to April 29.

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True, her role in this group is incomprehensible. Judging again by her instagram, Natalia Lyubitskaya’s main activity is travel and social events. Although these skills are quite enough for transporting the cache.

The last member of the group whom we were able to identify was a citizen of Kazakhstan, Alexander Solop. Social media also helped us to understand his place in the team, namely his account on Odnoklassniki. From it we learned that Solop works as a paramedic at the Almaty ambulance station No. 4 and loves to travel.

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Moreover, judging by the photographs, exotic countries, where Eurasian Resources Group conducts its business, are of particular interest to him as a traveler.

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The version of a simple coincidence is swept aside by another photo of Alexander Solop from Odnoklassniki in front of a private jet. This Gulfstream G650 with tail number M-AAAL belongs to Alexander Mashkevich.

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Probably, the group or part of it also flew to Guatemala on Mashkevich’s plane, here is the track of his flight on April 26.

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The April flight is not the only time Mashkevich’s plane landed in Guatemala. Over the past few months, the M-AAAL has visited this country several times, according to the flight data of its jet.

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It follows from the above that at least three of the group suspected of bribing the President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei are directly related to the Eurasian Resources Group and its interests in this Central American country – these are two bodyguards from a security firm affiliated with “Eurasians” ( most likely they were responsible for the force cover of the operation) and an ambulance paramedic from Almaty, traveling on Mashkevich’s private plane.

Probably, we will find out the details of this case in the near future: the Guatemalan prosecutor’s office opened the case only in early September and the investigation is at an initial stage. But even now we can say that for his main defendants, suspicion of corruption and criminal incidents is not something out of the ordinary. For example, President Alejandro Giammattei himself managed to serve time in prison on charges of mass slaughter in a penal colony, which was staged by his subordinates when the future head of state was in charge of the state penitentiary system. The UN Commission, which has studied corruption in Guatemala for 12 years, in its final report described a country as a state overrun by a mafia coalition of government, business and private individuals who are “willing to sacrifice Guatemala’s present and future in order to maintain the status quo.”

Finally, the Eurasian Resources Group and its beneficiaries are constantly at the center of corruption scandals around the world.

In 2013, the UK Financial Fraud Investigation Office (SFO) suspected ENRC (formerly ERG) of fraud, corruption and bribery of African presidents, misappropriation of $ 35 million and destruction of documents in order to interfere with the investigation. In particular, it was then about the controversial purchase by ENRC of a copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2015, the bodies of two managers of the Congolese subsidiaries of the Eurasian group were found in a hotel in the United States. Litigation continues to this day. Including with counterclaims from the company against journalists investigating its activities.

In May 2015, French security forces searched Villa Le Petit Rocher Patokha Shodiev located on the billionaire peninsula (we wrote about this in one of his texts). The search took place as part of a corruption investigation at the Elysee Palace. In particular, Shodiev was suspected of bribing Nicolas Sarkozy’s associates for settling his issues in Belgium, in which a money laundering case was investigated against him and his ERG partners Alexander Mashkevich and Alidzhan Ibragimov. In early 2011, the Belgian parliament amended the criminal code, which made it possible to conclude transactions with the investigation and avoid criminal punishment for a certain amount of money for a number of economic crimes. After fifteen years of investigation, the laundering case was closed, and the budget of Belgium received € 23 million from the “Eurasian troika”. According to the French and Belgian prosecutors, these amendments were lobbied in the interests of Chodiev and his partners by the people of Nicolas Sarkozy.

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  9. Kazakh-Israeli Industrialist Avoids 'Sex Yacht' Arrest

    Alexsander Mashkevich has escaped legal action in connection with the Turkish sex yacht incident late last month, according to this JTA article. According to this article, Turkish authorities ...

  10. Beverly Harbor Yacht Sighting Fuels Speculation: Patch PM

    The yacht that showed up in Beverly this week is owned by Alexander Mashkevitch, a Russian businessman and Jewish philanthropist with close ties to political leaders in Kazakhstan.

  11. Trump And The Oligarch 'Trio'

    The other listed partner is Alexander Machkevich and the Eurasia Group, which he controls with Chodiev and Ibragimov (the Trio). ... $200 million yacht. FORBES pegs his net worth at $1.9 billion ...

  12. Across the Former Soviet Union Wealthy Kazakh Businessman Looks to Make

    It took Alexander Mashkevich, a Jewish university lecturer in philology from the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, about a decade to become a billionaire. Now, Mashkevich — a leading industrialist ...

  13. Daughter of ENRC oligarch found guilty of withholding evidence

    Ms Machkevitch, whose company allegedly provided secretarial services for her father, was told by the SFO to hand over a decade's worth of diaries and documents relating to Alexander Mashkevich ...

  14. Alexander Mashkevitch

    Mashkevich was born in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union, in 1954 to Rakhel Yoffe (born in Belarus) and Anton (born in Lithuania). ... Alexander Mashkevitch was involved in a sex scandal that took place on a Turkish yacht that originally belonged to Kemal Ataturk. Mashkevitch and few other business men rented the yacht from Mr. who charged them ...

  15. Alexander Machkevitch

    Alexander Machkevitch. Co-founder, shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources producer. Headquartered in Luxembourg, ERG has a portfolio of production assets and development projects in 14 countries crossing four continents, and is represented by more than ...

  16. ERG co-founder Alexander Mashkevich spends the New Year holidays on the

    In the Caribbean, the Lady Lara yacht was spotted, which allegedly belongs to the co-founder of the Eurasian Resources Group Alexander Mashkevich. Order an Investigation; Website Navigation; About Us; Contact; 22 °c.

  17. Germany Seizes World's Largest Yacht Owned by Russian Oligarch

    Alberto-g-rovi (CC BY 3.0) This story was updated at 19:48 p.m. on Saturday to clarify that the vessel was seized, not confiscated. Germany has officially seized the world's largest superyacht ...

  18. Connecting Elliott Broidy Related Dots

    The ERG signator was ERG Chairman of the Board — Alexander(Sasha) Mashkevich. This article further notes that after the Savarona Yacht prostitution scandal with business associate Tevfik Arif another acolyte of Gafur Rakhimov, Mashkevich was replaced on the Gesamines Board of Directors by Jack Rosen, who will be discussed in a bit.

  19. A carpet of money for the President of Guatemala: how a simple

    The version of a simple coincidence is swept aside by another photo of Alexander Solop from Odnoklassniki in front of a private jet. This Gulfstream G650 with tail number M-AAAL belongs to Alexander Mashkevich. Probably, the group or part of it also flew to Guatemala on Mashkevich's plane, here is the track of his flight on April 26.

  20. About: Alexander Mashkevitch

    Alexander Antonovich Mashkevich (Hebrew: אלכסנדר משקביץ; also transliterated Alexandr Mashkevic; Russian: Александр Антонович Машкевич; born 23 February 1954) is an Israeli-Kazakh billionaire, businessman and investor who has major holdings and close political relationships in Kazakhstan. He holds both Kazakh and Israeli citizenship. He enriched himself ...

  21. A $200 Million Superyacht Belonging to a Sanctioned Oligarch and Art

    In March, German authorities impounded Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov's ship, and Fiji seized a $300 million yacht this spring that had a rare Fabergé egg on board.

  22. Daughter of ENRC founder charged in connection with graft probe

    Ms Machkevitch, 36, is the director of London-based ALM Services UK and the daughter of Alexander Mashkevich, one of ENRC's trio of founders. The SFO charged her with failing to produce ...