OFAC announced sanctions against the founder as well as Elena Chirkinian and Andrej Bradens, also known by the alias Caranox, both of whom work for TGR – describing Chirkinian as Rossi's “second in command”. Has gone. Rossi and four TGR-related companies have also been added to the sanctions list: TGR Partners Limited, TGR Corporate Concierge, TGR DWC LLC, and Siam Expert Trading Company Limited. The companies, on their websites, claim to provide a range of financial services. Event management, and similar corporate services.
“TGR will provide an interface to be able to take illicitly generated cash and put it into the legitimate banking system, even though it may be in the jurisdiction of risk, for example,” says NCA's Lynn. In 2023, the sanctions claim, TGR's Chirkinian allegedly helped transfer money from Russian state-owned media organization RT to Russia to help fund a Russian-language media organization in Britain. Widely approved by Western governments.
However, approved TGR companies are likely just the tip of a dense iceberg, with multiple legal identities tied to their brand names or company records. Archived versions of the now defunct TGR Partners website have claimed over the years that the business has “partner” offices in the UK, Singapore, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, UAE, Latvia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and the US . , (The latest version of the website only includes UK and UAE addresses.)
TGR Corporate Concierge, also approved, was previously called TGR Wealth Solutions public company recordsThe WIRED review shows that many businesses linked to TGR – including those that have not been sanctioned by authorities – share the same phone numbers, legal addresses, and similar website designs.
According to OFAC, Bradens also owns at least 50 percent of Pullman Global Solutions LLC, a Wyoming-based entity.
Rossi and Bradens did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Chirkinyan could not immediately be reached for comment.
Public presence of companies is limited. Many websites don't contain much detail about what businesses do and often consist of boilerplate-style text. The TGR Partners website also includes a unique series of blog posts from the beginning of 2020, featuring the world's most expensive wines, Europe's best virtual museums and galleries, and a list of the winners of the 2020 Oscars. “I think this is very typical of the traditional money-laundering typology, where a website will simply be taken down, a new company will be set up there, and the images and text will not necessarily correspond to what the company allegedly does. Be concerned,” says the NCA strategic lead for the operation.