According to the Portuguese news portal Público, two Russian oligarchs “imperceptibly” received Portuguese citizenship, and two more submitted the necessary documents and are waiting for their turn.
As it turned out recently, the Russian oligarch Andrei Rappoport, which appears on the list of Forbes magazine with a fortune of $ 1.2 billion, took advantage of the law on the heirs of Sephardic Jews expelled from the Pyrenee peninsula in the XXV century, and received Portuguese citizenship on December 30, 2019.
Rappoport, born in 1963 in Ukraine, is a close friend of Russian oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now living in London and Mikhail Friedman, the owner of the Dia supermarket network, who had to resign after he was included in List of Russian businessmen who fell under the sanctions of the EU.
Andrei Rappoport, who headed one of the largest private banks in Russia, and then moved to the energy sector, became the first Russian oligarch to receive Portuguese citizenship on the basis of a certificate of origin that he received from the Jewish community of the port.
The second Russian billionaire, who received Portuguese citizenship, was Roman Abramovich, who apparently managed to “get around” the long queue of applicants. The former owner of Chelsea did not receive a British passport, however, a passport of a citizen of Portugal, issued to Abramovich on April 30, 2021, provided the billionaire with all the opportunity to visit without a visa of 116 states of the world.
It is reported that two more Russian oligarchs, the year Nisanov and Lev Levaev, submitted documents and also stand in line for Portuguese citizenship. Nisanov submitted documents to Nisanov on June 26, 2020, and Lev Levaev – November 6 of the same year.
Both received documents from the Jewish community of the city of Porto, which officially confirms that their ancestors were Jews-Sefard, expelled 600 years ago from the Pyrenee Peninsula.
The portal notes that Nisanov’s name is listed in the list of Russian oligarchs that fell under the sanctions of the European Union and the USA. The year Nisanov, a native of the Azerbaijani city of the lip, is one of the largest businessmen of Russia, his personal condition reaches $ 4.3 billion.
Everything is in order with finances and the leader of the World Congress of Bukhara Jews, a citizen of Israel and Russia Lev (Levy) Levaev. Known as the “King of Diamonds”, this businessman was the partner Isabelle Dush Santush, the richest business of Africa and daughter of former President Angola Eduard Santusha.
Lev Levaev is friends with Abramovich and Berl Lazar, the main rabbi of Russia, and is Putin’s loved one.