A defence attorney in the ongoing ‘golden passports’ trial sought on Thursday to demonstrate that the naturalisation of a Russian national, despite certain irregularities in the procedure, cannot be attributed to malfeasance on the part of one of the two defendants.
The Russian national in question, who obtained a Cypriot passport under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment programme, is Nikolay Gornovskiy – former chief of Russian multinational energy corporation Gazprom.
As previously
