Reuters published material about Arkady Rotenberg’s partner Grigory Baevsky, who, according to the agency, transferred or sold real estate to several women “connected to President Vladimir Putin”

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According to Reuters , a “little-known Russian businessman” from St. Petersburg, 47-year-old Grigory Baevsky, who was a partner of Arkady Rotenberg, transferred his real estate to women, including Katerina Tikhonova (her agency previously called her the youngest daughter of the Russian president), two relatives of the former State Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva and student Alisa Kharcheva, who posed for the calendar for Putin’s birthday.

According to the agency, we are talking about real estate objects that are located in elite complexes in Moscow and the Moscow region.

With reference to data from open sources, the agency writes that Baevsky sold or transferred his real estate to three of these women. In another case, Katerina Tikhonova indicated the address of an apartment belonging to Baevsky as her own when registering a new company.

According to data from open sources, writes Reuters , companies in which Baevsky is a co-owner have concluded government construction contracts worth at least $89 million over the past two years.

Baevsky has not previously attracted much attention, notes Reuters . His connection with Putin was discovered by journalist Roman Anin, who conducted an investigation for the Eastern European media network Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the agency writes.

Reuters sent inquiries to Baevsky about real estate transactions and businesses he owns at his home address, but did not receive a response.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters : “We know nothing about who this person [Baevsky] is. The President is also not familiar with him.”

A representative of Rotenberg told the agency that the businessman does not have any information about Baevsky’s real estate transactions. When asked whether Baevsky acted on behalf of Rotenberg in his real estate transactions and whether the transactions were somehow connected with the friendship of Rotenberg and Putin, a representative of Rotenberg said: “Of course not. Such statements are absurd." Rotenberg’s representative added that Baevsky “does not work” for any company or holding of Arkady Rotenberg.

This week, Peskov reported that a “stuffing of information” was being prepared against Putin , claiming to be sensational. He said that Peskov became aware of the upcoming publications due to requests sent to the Kremlin by media representatives. According to him, one such request came from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ). It is an international non-profit organization of investigative journalists. Peskov clarified that journalists from ICIJ were interested in information about the president personally, about his “family, childhood friends, about businessmen (Kovalchuk, Rotenberg), about some offshore companies, about businessmen whom Putin has never even seen.”

The second request, as Peskov said, came from “a very well-known international news agency,” the name of which the presidential press secretary did not name. He named the questions that this agency had for Putin: “Is it true that the volume of your accumulated wealth is more than $40 billion, is it true that you own huge residences, megayachts and other assets. It is alleged that Putin maintains a close relationship with Sergei Roldugin (a Russian cellist whom the media called a friend of Putin and a shareholder of Rossiya Bank. - RBC ), and it is reported that he is engaged in business, and that this is directly related to the president, and that This is nothing more than presidential shenanigans."

On Thursday, March 31, Peskov again returned to the topic of “information hoaxes.” Answering a question from journalists about whether it was prevented, Peskov said that the Kremlin was “very carefully” monitoring the “information situation.” “We are confident that such information exercises will continue,” Peskov said. “We are talking about a campaign related to attempts to shake up the situation in the country, to discredit the country’s leadership, primarily the president. And thereby influence both the situation in the country and the course of the electoral processes.”

Reuters spoke about real estate transactions “connected” with Putin’s name