770:. . . using information released under new laws shedding light on those behind offshore companies, a Private Eye investigation reveals who some of those secret One Hyde residents really are . . . personifying the target market was Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and all-round fixer, who emerged as buyer through a British Virgin Islands company of a couple of apartments for £136 million. The Candy boys weighted in with high-eight-figure purchases of their own . . . among the apartment owners who can now be revealed is Vladimir Uzun, luxuriating in a £25.5m flat acquired through BVI company Saros Investments Ltd in 2011. Uzun is the president and former co-owner of Prosveshcheniye (Enlightenment) publishing house . . . In the development's adjoining block - sorry, pavilion - is an apartment bought by former banker Vladimir Stolyarenko . . . Owning what must be a box room, costing a mere £4m in 2011 through yet another BVI company, is Amirkhan Mori . . .
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