Deloitte approved falsified Abramovich accounts, BBC finds

Deloitte Cyprus approved backdated annual accounts in which $672m worth of Roman Abramovich’s assets had been removed from the company’s accounts, reports BBC Panorama Roman Abramovich ’s offshore companies used backdated documents to remove assets from the public accounts and evade tax in Cyprus, according to a joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism . Lawyers for the former Chelsea owner stated that he denies evading tax or hiding his wealth.