Sergei Moroz is a pseudonym for an RFE/RL journalist who contributed to this investigation. He is writing under a pseudonym for security reasons.
A star of the rave scene in post-Soviet St. Petersburg, Gavriil Frolov dropped out of sight, adopted a new name, and became a monk. Now, he’s at the center of a deal that handed a billion-dollar ice hockey arena in Putin’s hometown to the Russian gas giant Gazprom, RFE/RL has found.