OFAC announced sanctions against the founder, as well as Elena Chirkinyan and Andrej Bradens, also called Carenoks, who work for TGR; Chirkinyan is described as Rossi’s “second in command”. Four companies linked to Rossi and TGR have also been included on the sanctions lists: TGR Partners Ltd, TGR Corporate Concierge, TGR DWC LLC and Siam Expert Trading Company Ltd. The companies, on their websites, claim to provide a range of financial services , event management and similar corporate services.
“What TGR will do is provide an interface to be able to take illicitly generated cash and put it into the legitimate banking system, although that might be in risky jurisdictions, for example,” says the NCA’s Lyne. In 2023, according to the sanctions, TGR’s Chirkinyan allegedly helped transfer funds out of Russia, from the Russian state media RT, which has been widely sanctioned by Western governments, to help finance a Russian-language media organization in the Kingdom. United.
However, the sanctioned TGR companies are likely the tip of a dense iceberg, with multiple legal identities linked to the company’s brand or records. Archived versions of TGR Partners’ now-sanctioned website have claimed in recent years that the firm has “partner” offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Latvia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and the United States. . (The most recent version of the website only includes UK and UAE addresses.)
TGR Corporate Concierge, which was also sanctioned, was previously called TGR Wealth Solutions, according to public company records. Many of the companies linked to TGR, which also include those that have not been sanctioned by officials, share the same phone numbers, legal addresses and similar website designs, a WIRED review shows.
Bradens also owns at least 50 percent of Pullman Global Solutions LLC, a Wyoming-based entity, according to OFAC.
Rossi and Bradens did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Chirkinyan could not immediately be reached for comment.
The companies have a limited public presence. Many of the websites do not contain much detail about what the companies do and often include boilerplate-style text. The TGR Partners website also includes a quirky series of blog posts from early 2020, listing the world’s most expensive wines, Europe’s best museums and virtual galleries, and the 2020 Oscar winners. “I think that’s it.” “very typical of traditional money laundering typologies, where you just take down a website, put a new company on there, and the images and text don’t necessarily correlate with what the company supposedly does,” he said. This is what the NCA tactical leader for the operation says.