Structures associated with Russian billionaire and philanthropist Roman Abramovich have provided loans totaling 13 billion rubles for the activities in Russia of Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor. This was discovered by "Novaya Gazeta Europe" after reviewing the financial documents of the company "Diamand Estate" for 2025. Among Shor's other creditors are Vladimir Putin's childhood friend Arkady Rotenberg and businessman Andrey Goncharenko, whom the American publication The Washington Post has called an associate of the Russian FSB. The company "Diamand Estate" has previously been linked to Ilan Shor. "Novaya Gazeta Europe" found that effectively all of its activities are limited to financing the numerous projects of the Moldovan businessman. How Abramovich finances Shor. "Evraz KGOK" (Kachkanar Mining and Processing Plant), part of Roman Abramovich's "Evraz" group, provided "Diamand Estate" with a loan of over seven billion rubles in 2024. Additionally, "Diamand Estate" received 60 billion rubles in 2025 from the firm "Business Broker Finance." In turn, "Business Broker Finance" received two loans totaling 6.3 billion rubles in 2024 from the company TK "MS Trade," according to "Business Broker Finance" reporting. The owners of TK "MS Trade" are unknown, but the company is managed by "Evraz" manager Evgeny Murlyk. How Rotenberg finances Shor. In addition to Abramovich's structures, among "Diamand Estate's" creditors were companies associated with Vladimir Putin's close associate and childhood friend Arkady Rotenberg. Thus, "Diamand Estate" received a loan of 221 million rubles from the company "Center-M," operating in the interests of Arkady Rotenberg. "Novaya Gazeta Europe" and other publications have previously reported on it. "Diamand Estate's" reporting also reflects interest payments the company owes on a loan from "Mashinter" – an operator of road cameras in Crimea, which until 2022 belonged to businessman Evgeny Roitman. Previously, media outlets called him "Rotenberg's man." "Mashinter" was also involved in the financial infrastructure of the Russian shadow fleet. Among the sponsors of "Diamand Estate" was also Andrey Goncharenko, a former business partner of the Rotenberg brothers, whose connection with Shor had previously been reported by Moldovan media. The American publication The Washington Post reported that Goncharenko carried out assignments for the Russian FSB in Moldova. Who is Ilan Shor? Ilan Shor is a Moldovan oligarch sentenced in his home country to 15 years in prison for his participation in the "theft of the century" – a scheme to withdraw assets worth about a billion dollars from the country's banking system. In 2016, "Kommersant" reported that Shor was declared persona non grata in Russia because he "corrupts everyone he sees." Since 2023, Shor has been living in Russia. In 2025, he publicly presented "A7" platform to Vladimir Putin, which he is developing with Promsvyazbank – a key bank for the Russian defense sector. "A7" and its related project "A7A5" are under sanctions from all major Western jurisdictions for facilitating sanctions evasion. In what other projects does he help the Kremlin? Funds from "Diamand Estate" were received, for example, by pro-Russian blocked television channels in Moldova controlled by Shor, an advertising agency selling integrations into Russian social networks in the Moldovan market, and also Kyrgyz companies associated with the "A7" payment system. Shor created this system for conducting international payments from Russia under sanctions. It is used by many Russian companies, including sanctioned manufacturers of combat drones for the war in Ukraine. In addition, "Diamand Estate" finances the non-profit organization "Eurasia," which participated in Shor's attempts to organize protests and bribe voters before the elections in Moldova in 2024. For this, it was included in the sanctions lists of key Western jurisdictions. The "Eurasia" Foundation also participated in the political campaign in the recent elections in Armenia.