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Rostec General Director Sergei Chemezov owns an apartment in the building of the Four Seasons Hotel on Manezhnaya Square, a few hundred meters from the Kremlin. This was reported in the investigation of the Corruption Fund, which is published on the website of Alexei Navalny.

The cost of the apartment, according to the most modest estimates, is estimated at 5 billion rubles.

In the building, which was erected on the site of the outwardly very similar Stalinsky hotel "Moscow", which was demolished in the 2000s, only the lower eight floors were allocated to the rooms. The apartments are above.

The two-level apartment of Chemezov is on the 12-13th floors. Its total area is 1434 square meters.

Real estate on Ekaterina Ignatov - the wife of Chemezova. At the same time, in its declaration it is not an apartment, but two non -residential objects with an area of ​​700 more square meters each.

Ignatova is the founder of Katya. This company, founded in 2004, as if it produces automatic gearboxes for AvtoVAZ, a large stock of shares of which belongs to Rostoch. “You heard that we put domestic automatic transmissions in our“ Lada ”? Here we are not,” the investigation says. Although the prototype of the Katya box was introduced back in 2006, until 2012, the car at AvtoVAZ was produced with manual gearboxes. Then, on Lada, they began to put boxes of automatic ones, however, Japanese production.

According to the FBK, the only gearbox released by Ignatova was installed on Vladimir Putin’s limousine. “You all saw him on the inauguration that year. Putin proudly drove 500 meters on it,” the investigation says. “Judging by Katya’s reporting, on their unexpectedly revived site and the YouTube channel appeared, Putin personally breathed a new life into the business of Ekaterina Ignatova. And another billion rubles in the form of prepayment - just in case.”

Chemezov is a former KGB officer and Putin's old acquaintance. In the 1980s, they worked together in the GDR. In 1996-1999, Chemezov headed the department of external economic relations of the Presidential Affairs Management; Putin was the deputy manager in 1998.

In April 2014, Rostec Director General was included in the US sanctions list , adopted in connection with the annexation of Crimea. He is also a defendant in the Kremlin List, published by Washington in January last year.