Former owner of Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport obtains Israeli citizenship after Russia seizes the airport over alleged ‘foreign influence’
Dmitry Kamenshchik, the former owner of Domodedovo Airport, has left Russia and moved to Israel, Forbes reported.
Former owner of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, Dmitry Kamenshchik, has been granted Israeli citizenship after Russian authorities seized the airport over allegations of "foreign influence," according to Forbes. Kamenshchik left Russia in 2025, following a court order to seize his airport. He now resides in Tel Aviv and continues to engage in business activities.
His representative confirmed that Kamenshchik held no residence permits or citizenship in any other country at the time of acquiring the airport or when prosecutors initiated the lawsuit to nationalize it. Domodedovo Airport was officially nationalized in June 2025, following a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office, which centered on the allegations that Kamenshchik and the supervisory board chairman Valery Kogan held residence permits in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, respectively, in 2022-2023.
After the expropriation, the airport sold for approximately half its market value of 66 billion rubles, with entities controlled by Arkady Rotenberg taking over as new owners.
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