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Leaked files reveal how Deloitte Cyprus helped Roman Abramovich hide $10B fortune
Joanna Robin10/14/2026
The sanctioned oligarch’s financial advisors in Cyprus falsified financial records in a yearslong a ploy for him to evade taxes, a new investigation by ICIJ’s media partners found. The accounting giant Deloitte helped doctor a paper trail that enabled Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to conceal billions in assets and dodge millions in tax, according to a joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and BBC Panorama . A forensic analysis of corporate records obtained as part of the Cyprus Confidential leak reportedly shows how staff at Deloitte’s Cyprus branch, and its offshoot MeritServus , routinely falsified documents while managing the oligarch’s vast offshore fortune.
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