Billions of Putin's ex-wife
The ex-wife of the Kremlin ruler is actively buying up real estate
in Europe. Companions of the imprisoned Russian opposition
leader Alexei Navalny wondered where Putin's ex-wife disappeared
after the divorce.
They managed to find out about the possessions of her new husband
and the huge income from Moscow real estate, shares in business
and life abroad.
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Lyudmila Putina has always been in the shadow of her husband.
However, investigators managed to find LiveJournal, which Navalny's
associates believe Putin wife secretly hosted until 2008. Her
marriage to Putin was then already fictitious. In 2013, Lyudmila
divorced Putin without formally receiving any of his property, and
in 2015 she married businessman Artur Ocheretny and took his last
name. The main focus of the film is on the sources of income of
Lyudmila Putina. The main one, as the authors believe, is an old
mansion near the Kremlin with 40 acres of land. When Putin's wife
became a trustee of the Center for the Development of the Russian
Language foundation in the 2000s, this building was donated to
the foundation. In 2009, the foundation changed its name to the
Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications, and
a year later Artur Ocheretny became its director. He still manages
it, and Lyudmila formally has nothing to do with this.
The fund's largest sponsors are the Moscow government, Gazprombank
and Severstal. Over the past three years, the foundation has received
175 million Russian rubles (almost $3 million) from the Moscow City
Hall alone, and more than 400 million rubles (more than $6.6 million)
from all sponsors together. The spending of the fund is also
interesting. Among them are expensive Italian furniture and millions
of transfers to the account of a sports coach.
At the same time, Lyudmila Putina herself owns the Meridian company,
which subleases premises in the "house of Prince Volkonsky."
Navalny's team obtained bank statements that show that in March 2020
alone, Lyudmila received 192 million rubles (more than $3 million)
from Meridian to her personal account.
Investigators found that the ex-wife of the ruler is actively buying
up real estate in Europe. There were several objects designed for
her new husband: this is a house in the French resort of Biarritz,
as well as two apartments in Spanish Malaga and an apartment in
Davos, Switzerland.
