Roman Assets: Pensand House & Marlborough Court, Hythe and 3 & 4 Dalby Square Margate
EXCLUSIVE
Updated 21st Sept 2020
During the Yeltsin Presidency (1991 – 1999) of the Russian Federation, privatization of the state led to a lot of people become very wealthy. This was the rise of the oligarchs. To move their new found wealth out of the country they needed people to set up the myriad of companies.
One such company who was willing to help the Oligarchs was the Valmet Group. The Group’s president was Christopher Samuelson (pictured below left). The Chairman of the group was Christian Michel (pictured below right)
Chelsea Portfolio Limited (CPL) – purchased Pensand House & Marlborough Court, Hythe Kent on the 03/12/96. It also purchase 3 & 4 Dalby Square, Margate, Kent on the 08/07/96. Chelsea Portfolio Limited was owned by Frasertown Limited Gibraltar, who had two shareholders at the time of purchases and after, they were:
At the time of the purchase of Pensand House & Marlborough Court, Hythe, Kent, and 3 & 4 Dalby Square Margate Thanet, the two companies above were owned by Roman Abramovich, according to a Times report 7th Sept 1999. These companies therefore owned and controlled Frasertown Limited Gibraltar, who owned Chelsea Portfolio Limited in the UK.
As an aside before we move on, both properties received Housing Benefits from tenants and so went into Roman’s coffers directly or indirectly. It is known between 2014 and 2016 Chelsea Portfolio Limited received £357,000 in Housing Benefit Payments for the tenants of Pensand House & Marlborough Court from Folkestone & Hythe District Council. How much Housing Benefit they received for 3 & 4 Dalby Square Margate from Thanet District Council is not known.
Chelsea Portfolio Limited also paid for a planning application to Folkestone & Hythe District Council at least once. What other payments have been made to, or received from Chelsea Portfolio Ltd by Folkestone & Hythe District Council and Thanet District Council, is unknown for now.
The Times report goes onto say:
“Abramovich (pictured) was named in the Bank of New York money-laundering scandal. His name emerged after speculation that Swiss investigators are looking into the role of Runicom as part of the widening investigation into the laundering of up to $15 billion of Russian money through American banks.
Runicom is owned by at least two offshore companies set up by the Valmet Group, a financial services concern partly owned by Menatep, a failed Russian bank that used the Bank of New York.
Christopher Samuelson, president of Valmet Group, yesterday refused to disclose the beneficial owners of Valmet Nominees and Finsbury Nominees.
“All I can tell you is that Valmet itself does not own anything in Runicom,” he said. “I couldn’t release any information at all without the client’s permission.”
The Times has confirmed that the man behind Runicom’s owners, Valmet Nominees and Finsbury Nominees, is Mr Abramovich.
So now even more evidence emerges to support our justifiable and proportionate concerns relating to allegation of money laundering by others, at the time of purchase of Pensand House & Marlborough Court, Hythe (pictured) & 3 & 4 Dalby Square, Margate.
Surely with Nationwide Building Society investigating these concerns about money laundering, any s21 eviction order to decant the families who still remain at Pensand House and Marlborough Court should be halted.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have already sent 16 families to Durham (up to 10th Sept). They should should stop sending anyone to Durham, 330 miles away and immediately, as we believe they are flouting the homelessness guidance.
Instead the Council ought to launch an investigation of their own as they will have been involved in financial transactions, with Chelsea Portfolio prior and after the purchase of the property.
It cannot be right that when even more evidence emerges that any planning application by Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning Committee today, would be right and proper.
We call upon Sanjay Ashok SHARMA to co-operate fully in the investigation by Nationwide, as he became a director of Chelsea Portfolio Ltd on the 20th March 1996. He remains a director to date.
Before we move on, lets not forget the Panama Papers show between Feb and Sept 1996, Valmet Nominees Ltd was a shareholder in Seabrae Properties Limited, Southview Properties Limited and Hightail Properties Ltd all incorporated in the tax haven commonly known as the Bahamas. This demonstrates clear linkage between Abramovich and these companies, as he was the owner of Valmet Nominees Ltd at the time. And later in 2003 Valmet Nominees Ltd set up a Manhattan Real Estate LCC incorporated in Nevada, USA and on the same day incorporated Manhattan Real Estate Limted in the British Virgin Islands.
Who were those feet in modern times
Walked upon England’s downlands green:
And was the tax-evader’s spawn,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the taxman Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these darkened offshore Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Champion of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have reclaimed our share
Of England’s green & pleasant Land.
A little after Blake, with apologies!
Just seen this in The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/roman-abramovich-posed-threat-to-public-security-swiss-police-said
It says:
““suspicion of money laundering and presumed contacts with criminal organisations”. They also asserted that there was reason to believe that “the applicant’s assets are at least partially of illegal origin”.
“Any suggestion that Mr Abramovich has been involved in money laundering… is entirely false, says Abramovich’s lawyer, Daniel Glasl.
And what about that Malaga connection the Shepwayvox Team made. Tewkesbury Espana SL owned by Valmet Nominees Limited.
Fing blinding work by the Shepwayvox Team.
So what is going to happen to Pensand House and Marlborough Court now? MC in particular has empty houses. At a time of homelessness and when deserving social housing tenants, not to mention families made homeless by war in Ukraine and elsewhere, are being told there is nothing available, this is an utter disgrace, in my view.