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| Oleg Viktorovich Boyko and documents published by Euronews Albania |
One of those arrested for the payroll information scandal, Endri Ikonomi, turns out to work for the company of a Russian billionaire in Albania, called Credit 2 All (Digital Finance International LLC), which according to data that Euronews owns, is specialized in financial consulting and electronic products in this field.
The 57-year-old Russian businessman Oleg Viktorovich Boyko is reported to have a fortune of $ 1.3 billion according to Forbes and is described on his website as one of the 100 richest Russian businessmen, a 30-year international investor in the banking industry and digital financial services and CEO of Finstar Financial Group.
However, a US Senate intelligence report cites Russian oligarch Oleg Boyko as a person "with disturbing links to the Russian government, Russia's intelligence and security services, and links to organized crime."
"The Moldovan press has reported that Boyko was involved in a Kremlin-backed operation to externally influence the election there," reads the sensitive US report, where some paragraphs are censored.
An investigation by the Romanian Black Sea anti-corruption journalists' platform cites Oleg Boyko as a Fashion TV investor who, along with a Latvian partner, used Malta as a tax haven to operate in Europe and the US while earning dizzying sums for emergency loans to Europe's poorest.
According to data, the Russian bought the 100% stake of the company on May 8, 2018 from the previous owner: Piressa Holding Limited, a company operating in the Cyprus tax haven, a day after Endri Ikonomi was named its administrator. Vlado Cvetkosvki is also the administrator of the company since October 2021.
Oleg Viktorovich Boyko describes Finstar's mission as a vanguard in "using deep technology and data science to ensure global financial inclusion".