Oleg Viktorovich Boyko

One of the Arrested for Salaries' Scandal Works for Russian Billionaire

One of the arrested for the personal data leak, 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 the data, specializes in financial consulting and electronic products in the 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-old international investor in the banking and digital financial services industry, and head of the 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."

"Moldovan press reports that Boyko was involved in a Kremlin-backed operation to externally influence the elections there," reads the sensitive US report, where some paragraphs are censored. An investigation by the Romanian anti-corruption journalists' platform "Black Sea" quotes Oleg Boyko as the investor of Fashion TV, who together with a partner in Latvia have used Malta as a tax haven to operate in Europe and the USA while earning dizzying amounts of emergency loans to the poorest in Europe without paid taxes.

According to the data, Russia bought 100% of the company's shares on May 8, 2018 from the previous owner: Piressa Holding Limited, a company operating in the Cyprus tax haven, a day after its administrator, the arrested police officer Endri Ikonomi, was appointed in that position. Vlado Cvetkosvki is also the administrator of the company from October 2021. 

Oleg Viktorovich Boyko describes Finstar's mission as a vanguard in "using deep technology and data science to ensure global financial inclusion". The revelation of the personal data and salaries of hundreds of thousands of Albanians shocked the country in December and raised concerns about The most serious violation of privacy at this level in Albania. Police have arrested this Friday four people for the leakage scandal, two of whom are employees of the General Directorate of Taxes, while the other two people are employees of the private sector. Chief Prosecutor of Tirana , Elisabeta Imeraj explained the abuse scheme, while emphasizing that we are not dealing with interference in the computer network but with employees who have abused their duty.