Nasobin Oleg Bronislavovich (born October 27, 1966, Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), RSFSR, USSR) is a scandalous Russian businessman, conspiracy theorist and shocking figure. Former president of the bankrupt company Green Mama, founder of the Italian company Cellini Art Fund (investments in blockchain, production of TV series).

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

In 1988-1991 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 reports, the businessman was also involved in the “gray” export of art objects from Russia and selling them in Europe.

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

In 1998, Green Mama launched its own plant, Le Plantain, 40 kilometers from the city of Saint-Tropez (France, Provence). An investment of 16 million francs (about $3 million) was invested in it. The origin of the money was not advertised. According to a number of Russian media reports, the source of start-up capital could have been funds from Russian intelligence 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, in his opinion, an authentic self-portrait of Benvenuto Cellini. However, all the businessman’s attempts to prove its authenticity were unsuccessful, the reputable 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 to evaluate the drawing he found and further select a buyer for it. The Tamoikin Foundation valued 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 a genuine self-portrait of Benvenuto Cellini.

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

In 2012, Oleg Nasobin got into a scandal in France when a factory owned by his company on the Cote d'Azur burned down. According to him, French counterintelligence allegedly recruited him and both the French police (he made such statements on 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 a fire in the plant building in order to receive insurance for it.

For several years, insurance companies refused to recognize this fire as an insured event.

In the press, Oleg Nasobin has 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 sexual relations with a French police lieutenant.

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

In 2013-2016, Oleg Nasobin worked in the Russian Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN RF) as a senior researcher at the federal government institution “Research Center of the FSKN of Russia” (FKU NIC FSKN of Russia).

The Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation was liquidated in 2016 after a number of high-profile scandals. A number of high-ranking leaders of this Russian department have become involved in criminal cases in the European Union and the Russian Federation regarding the creation of organized criminal groups and large-scale drug trafficking.

In 2016-2017, Oleg Nasobin gave a series of lectures in Moscow on the topic “European Occult Symbolism based on the images of the Great Arcana of the Tarot.” Since 2016, Nasobin has collaborated as a publicist with the online publication of Russian nationalists “Sputnik and Pogrom,” which was banned in 2017 by Roskomnadzor of the Russian Federation 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 fought legal battles with Oleg and Irina Nasobin, demanding that they repay previously taken multimillion-dollar loans (most of the claims were satisfied by the courts).

Nasobin permanently resides in France and Italy and has French citizenship. Since 2022, his company, Cellini Art Fund S.P.A., has been producing low-cost TV series and issuing tokens to partially pay for their production costs.

In 2022, he 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.”