Alimony of luxury

The ex -wife of Vladimir Putin Lyudmila and her new husband Arthur Ochorayt own a villa worth more than five million euros in the city of Anglet near Biarris. This is stated in the investigation of the correspondent of the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) of Olesya Shmagun, which was published by Medusa.

“As OCCRP managed to find out, after rapprochement with Lyudmila Putin, Arthur Okheretny - a man who, judging by open data, never earned a lot of money and did not succeed in business - millions of euros appeared to acquire an ar -deco villa on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in France,” says Shmagun. The fact that the Villa bought Ochoraytnaya in December 2013 is evidenced by French documents.

The area of ​​the villa "Suzanne" is 450 square meters. The semicircular porch of the building is decorated with the bas -relief of architects Jean and Joel Martel, which is recognized as an architectural monument. The house has four bedrooms, a living room and a dining room with an access to a terrace, a music room and a billiard room. The villa is surrounded by a park of 5,000 square meters with an open pool, the windows look at the ocean.

Having bought Suzanne, the new owners decided to almost completely redo the villa for themselves (as well as give her a new name - in the reconstruction project she appears as Reverie), the publication says. - Judging by the reconstruction project, panoramic windows should appear in the building, a relaxation area with a small pool, the interior will be completely updated. ”The work began last fall.

Since 2010, Okheretny has been headed by the Non -Profit Foundation "Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications". Officially, the organization is in no way connected with Putin’s ex -wife, but she is called the unspoken patroness of the fund.

“Whether Arthur Okheretny, being the director of the non -profit fund, could afford the villa and its reconstruction, is not clear to the end,” said Shmagun. Data on its salary is not published, but in 2012 the entire salary of the center was 25 million rubles, in 2013 - 18 million.

As noted in OCCRP, in 2015, Kirill Shamalov, the husband of Putin Katerina Tikhonova’s daughter bought real estate in Biarrice for $ 3.7 million. His Villa is just a few kilometers from the ocher Villa.

According to the residents of Biarrits, relatives of the Russian president often appear in the city. However, they had to meet Lyudmila and Katerina in the local market.

17 Mata "Rain" reported that the metropolitan city hall annually distinguishes the Fund "Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications" of subsidies in the amount of several tens of millions of rubles . Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, signed a decree on the allocation of financial assistance to the Fund of Financial Assistance in 2015. In total, in 2016-2019, the fund will receive 248 million rubles from Moscow. For these funds, the fund should "create conditions for effective communicative interaction in society."

According to Spark-Interfax, in 2015 the fund earned 60 million rubles. At the same time, he owns the mansion on the Vozdvizhenka - the so -called "Volkonsky House". The "Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications" rents the premises of the mansion to Meridian, and that retakes them in sublease. 99 percent of Meridian LLC belongs to Interior Service, whose one hundred percent owner is Lyudmila Shkrabneva. Shkrabneva - the maiden name of Lyudmila Putin.

On February 11, 2016, the founder of the FBK Navalny filedan administrative lawsuit against the president in the Tver District Court. As noted in the lawsuit, the defendant did not take the necessary actions to prevent a conflict of interests. According to Navalny, such a conflict arose when Putin personally signed an order to allocate Siber $ 1.75 billion from the National Welfare Fund.

At the same time, Navalny noted, a large package of Sibura shares is owed by Kirill Shamalov. “Putin’s allocation of the company's money, where the beneficiary is the spouse of his child is a classic conflict of interest,” wrote Navalny. - The conflict itself is not a crime. Such a situation may arise, and the main requirement here is this: take measures, declare a conflict of interests and, if necessary, take self -confrontation. "

However, the courts rejected all the lawsuits of Navalny.The constitutional court took the same position.