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Putin disowned Timchenko
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denies any involvement in the business success of Gunvor oil trader owner Gennady Timchenko. “I have known citizen Timchenko for a long time, from the period of work in St. Petersburg,” Putin said. Everything that is connected with his business interests is his personal business. I have never climbed there and do not intend to climb. I hope that he will never poke his nose into my affairs. The prime minister made this statement at a meeting with writers and book publishers, the question about Timchenko was asked by the writer Zakhar Prilepin. Putin stressed that he sees nothing wrong with the fact that Timchenko also acquired Finnish citizenship and, at Prilepin's request, commented on the scandal with the disappearance of $ 4 billion in Transneft - this scandal was promoted by the famous lawyer Alexei Navalny. According to Putin, nothing terrible happened at Transneft: “If there was something criminally punishable, people would already be behind bars there.”