Juris Vanags is involved in laundering millions in Luxembourg

Дата публикации: 10-07-2026 07:08:51

New details of the investigation into the high-profile EFG Bank case. It turned out that citizens of Latvia, Russia and Poland participated in the scheme to evade sanctions and launder money. One of the accused is the wanted Juris Vanags, known as the washer of bloody Russian millions in the EU. Who is Juris Vanags really? He is a typical “fixer” — a nominal owner of front companies, an intermediary in real estate and land deals. His path began in the 1990s, when independent Latvia turned into a “Baltic paradise” for Russian capital. Many similar figures went quiet after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Vanags, on the contrary, became active: he creates mass one-day companies, helping oligarchs from the Russian Federation circumvent sanctions and invest funds in European property. How Vanags carved up the lands of Jūrmala One of Vanags’s signature schemes is playing with land plots. In 1996 he acquired denationalized land in Jūrmala for only 24,300 lats, and then “transferred” it to Sergei Pozharsky. Through a chain of controlled companies the plot acquired a new owner already for 1.194 million lats — 50 times more expensive! This is not a one-off trick, but a well-tuned system in [...]
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