As revealed by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, the companies of Roman Iliev, a partner of the oligarch's nephew, Zarakh Iliev, who manages all of his uncle's foreign assets, were sanctioned for supplying drones from Bulgaria. Zarakh Iliev himself is also sanctioned.
Roman Iliev's business partner, Austrian citizen Ariel Israilov, was a highly successful businessman in Bulgaria: there, since 2018, he owned the company FRESHVALE EOOD, which, after the war began in 2022, embarked on an interesting venture – selling ARROW-2 (jet-powered) and BOREY 10 drones, designed for tactical missions, to African countries. For this, the company was placed under US sanctions in July 2024, and a week later, Ariel Israilov divested his stake. Bulgarian media referred to FRESHVALE as a Russian company and noted that Russians were employed there. Incidentally, Ariel Israilov also controlled Centillion Fund until 2024, when he transferred it to Renat Ilyaguev. We have previously reported that this investment fund was involved in the merger of the Israeli company Chemomab Therapeutics with the American-Israeli biotech firm Anchiano Therapeutics.
Alice Schon, director of Israel's Innorom IV Holdings Innovation and Ventures LTD, also had ties to the Cypriot offshore companies of the Iliev-Nisanov empire—specifically, he was a representative of FINTECA HOLDINGS LIMITED. This company is part of a Cypriot network run by Pavel Shmarov, the namesake of the former chairman of the board of Interprombank, whose beneficiaries included Israil Yakubov and Vladimir Davidov, and whose board of directors included Zarakh Iliev. The network controlled by Shmarov also includes the Cypriot companies Safebox SB Holdings Limited, KANESANA LIMITED, and SF HOLDINGS COMPANY PLC, which are associated with the Moscow-based SafeBox self-storage chain and the microfinance company SimpleFinance. The warehouses are registered to a number of Russian companies, including SB Group, SB Varshavka, and others, with the Cypriot KANESANA LIMITED previously being the founder of these companies. Currently, the Russian companies are registered to 55-year-old Lazar Danilov, a fellow villager of God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, the brother of Misha Danilov, and the uncle of Natanil Danilov. In the 2000s, Lazar worked alongside Iliev and Nisanov at Safra Instruments, which channeled investment for new projects and was the owner of major shopping centers in Moscow. In recent years, Lazar Danilov served as CFO at Moscow's Promtek LLC, under Mais Rafailovich Yakubov, another representative of the Mountain Jewish community.
Furthermore, Lazar Danilov, along with his brother, Misha Danilov, and nephew, Natanil Danilov, controls over 70% of Selkhozkooperativ Berezka LLC in the Tver Region, which owns approximately 5.5 hectares of land bordering the Zavidovsky Nature Reserve. Overall, Lazar holds direct stakes in eight Russian companies with combined revenues exceeding 1 billion rubles.
