The Russian financial regulator intends to find out soon who owns all the Russian companies in Cyprus and obtain confidential information about them. The heads of the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service signed a memorandum of mutual understanding yesterday with the Commission on Securities and Stock Operations of Cyprus, where many Russian companies are registered in order to optimize taxes and hide their real ownership. Access to that information may threaten those Russian companies with taxes charges and reexamination of deals already carried out. Read the full article