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The offshore dealings of the Pinto family, interior designers to royalty and oligarchs

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Interior designer Alberto Pinto decorated Russian oligarch Viktor Rashnikov's superyacht Ocean Victory.
Interior designer Alberto Pinto decorated Russian oligarch Viktor Rashnikov's superyacht Ocean Victory. © Studio Pachamama

The Pinto agency is perhaps best known for its work designing interiors for five-star hotels and royal palaces. But it also decorates superyachts for its Russian and Middle Eastern clients, a sideline that is billed through a complex network of offshore trusts and private asset managers, some of which are under the scrutiny of investigators in France and Switzerland.

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