Edited sentence: At this point in time, no credible analysts any longer claim that there are ownership ties linking the Smirnov family to Sheriff.Despite previous accusations to the contrary, there have never been any tangible indications that the company is owned, even in part, by the family of president Igor Smirnov.Such claims have consistently been denied by Igor Smirnov as well as his son Vladimir Smirnov, and Moldpres (the state news agency of Moldova) points to political and economic strife between Sheriff's owners and the government of Transnistria