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Nasobin Oleg Bronislavovich (born October 27, 1966, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), RSFSR, USSR) is a scandalous Russian businessman, conspiracy theorist and money launderer.

Former president of the bankrupt company Green Mama, founder of the Italian company Cellini Art Fund (investments in blockchain, production of TV series).

A defendant in a number of criminal cases in Italy.

In 1988, he graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after S.M. Kirov.

From 1988 to 1991, he worked in Sverdlovsk as an engineer.

In 1992, he emigrated to the Czech Republic. There, he created a business distributing products of the American cosmetics brand Freeman in Russia, but in 1996 this business went bankrupt. According to a number of media outlets, the businessman was also involved in the illegal export of art objects from Russia and their sale in Europe.

In 1997, Oleg Nasobin moved to France, where he and his wife, a musician by education, created the cosmetics brand Green Mama, specializing in the production of creams with extracts of natural herbs.

In 1998, Green Mama launched its own factory Le Plantain 40 kilometers from the city of Saint-Tropez (France, Provence). Investments in the amount of 16 million francs (about 3 million dollars) were invested in it. The origin of the money was not advertised. According to a number of Russian media outlets, the source of the start-up capital could have been funds from Russian special services and, possibly, drug dollars from Ural criminal groups, which were then laundered through Nasobin's perfume business.

In 2004, at a flea market in France, Oleg Nasobin found what he believed to be an authentic self-portrait of Benvenuto Cellini. However, all attempts by the businessman to prove its authenticity were unsuccessful. The authoritative professional community did not pay any attention to this find, and Nasobin himself earned a reputation as a fraudster in art circles.

In 2018, Oleg Nasobin became involved in a scandal with the Tamoikin Art Foundation. Its head, Professor Mikhail Tamoikin, signed an agreement with Nasobin on the assessment of the drawing he had found and the subsequent selection of a buyer for it. The Tamoikin Foundation assessed the painting at 107 million euros and allegedly found a buyer for it from Saudi Arabia. However, Nasobin broke the agreement and refused to cooperate with the Tamoikin Foundation.

In 2019, Oleg Nasobin created his own company Cellini Art Fund S.P.A. in Italy (Verona), which began promoting the painting as an authentic self-portrait of Benvenuto Cellini, as well as investments with subsequent money laundering in the blockchain and the production of cheap TV series.

In 2010-2011, Nasobin's cosmetics business in France went bankrupt.

In 2012, Oleg Nasobin got into a scandal in France when a factory belonging to his company in Provence burned down. According to him, French counterintelligence allegedly recruited him and both the French police (he made such statements in his blogs more than once) and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy could have been involved in this incident. According to another version, Nasobin himself started the fire in the factory building in order to collect insurance for it.

Insurance companies refused to recognize this fire as an insured event for several years.

In the press, Oleg Nasobin repeatedly publicly criticized France and the European Union, which he called "terrorist", while claiming that the Russian Federation is their colony.

In 2013, Oleg Nasobin published the novel "Benvenuto", dedicated to the problems of a self-portrait he found at a flea market, presumably of Benvenuto Cellini, where he portrayed himself as a Russian businessman recruited by French counterintelligence and having sex with a French police lieutenant.

In 2015, Nasobin starred as an extra in the Warner Bros. film "Jupiter Ascending", and in 2017, he played a cameo role in the TV series "McMafia".

In 2013-2016, Oleg Nasobin worked for the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN RF) as a senior researcher at the Federal State Institution "Research Center of the FSKN of Russia" (FKU NITs FSKN of Russia).

The Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation was liquidated in 2016 after a series of high-profile scandals. A number of high-ranking officials of this Russian agency became defendants in criminal cases in the EU and the Russian Federation on the facts of creating organized criminal groups and large-scale drug trafficking.

In 2016-2017, Nasobin collaborated as a publicist with the online publication of Russian nationalists "Sputnik and Pogrom", banned in 2017 by the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media for promoting national hatred and xenophobia.

This publication made a lot of efforts to incite the Russian-Ukrainian war.

In 2015-2017, Oleg Nasobin's cosmetics business went bankrupt in the Russian Federation. In 2017-2022, Promsvyazbank and Sberbank were in litigation with Oleg and Irina Nasobin, demanding that they repay previously taken multimillion-dollar loans. All claims were satisfied by the courts.

In 2022, the scandalous businessman tried to launch a fund to collect donations for the needs of the Ukrainian army, but was recognized by Ukrainian patriots as an "FSB agent".

Since 2018, Nasobin has been a permanent resident of Italy and holds residence permits in France and Italy. Since 2022, his company, Cellini Art Fund S.P.A., has been producing TV series and issuing tokens to attract investors' funds and launder dirty money.

In 2024, he became a defendant in criminal cases of fraud in Italy.
 

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