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What is the family of the former chief of security of the Russian president: the investigation of Novaya Gazeta
Viktor Zolotov for 13 years-from 2000 to 2013-headed the security service of Vladimir Putin and was a man who physically most time spent next to the Russian president. In Soviet times, Zolotov served in the KGB, then became the bodyguard of Anatoly Sobchak and Vladimir Putin (when he worked at the City Hall of St. Petersburg). The New Gazeta found out what the Zolotov family owns and what kind of business his relatives are engaged in.
In the past two years, Zolotov has been working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as deputy minister and has been led by internal troops. In the fall of 2014, rumors appeared that Zolotov would replace the Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev, but the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced in the media. As a special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, Roman Anin, was found out, the son of Zolotov Roman held a leading post in the FSUE Obstro at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. He owns a plot near Putin’s official residence on Valdai, a three -story building in Gelendzhik and other real estate.
The total cadastral value of the entire real estate we discovered is more than 120 million rubles. The market value can be several times more. The source of the “New” in the Ministry of Internal Affairs knows that the salary of positions similar to the one occupied by Roman Zolotov can hardly exceed 2–3.5 million rubles a year. If so, then these income was clearly not enough for the purchase and half of the real estate that we discovered.