Selling the wealth of Lesin

In the United States, villas of the late Russian ex-minister are sold

In Los Angeles, another villa was put up for sale, belonging to the ex-minister of the press of Russia Mikhail Lesin, who died under obscure circumstances at the hotel in Washington two years ago.

Villa with an area of 13 thousand square meters. feet (more than 1200 sq. M) is located in the prestigious area of Brentwood. The upcoming sale is the last event associated with the name of the former influential representative of the Russian regime, in 2009, dismissed from the civil service.

Gibson International, a California company specializing in elite real estate trade, put up this villa for sale at a price of $ 23 million. Another house belonging to Lesin is offered to customers for $ 29 million. According to July 25, it was still in the list of objects offered to customers another realtor company.

Both villas were purchased in 2009 by the Dastel by Lesin. These transactions attracted the attention of American law enforcement agencies in December 2014, when Senator Roger Wizker appealed to the Ministry of Justice with a request - to investigate whether the purchase of villas of the United States to combat money laundering is contrary to.

Later, the official owner of the company DASTEL was the son of Mikhail Lesin - Anton. He had been a successful business in Hollywood for more than one year - in some films that he financed, Brad Pitt and Robert de Niro were shot, in particular. Anton Lesin himself was currently inaccessible to comment.

As for Lesin Sr., in the early 2000s, in the early years of President Putin, he served as Minister of Press. Then Lesin helped to put the leading television channels of Russia, including NTV. He later played a large role in the formation of the Gazprom-Media holding and the creation of a satellite television channel Russia Today, now known as RT.

In 2013, when Mikhail Lesin was appointed head of the Gazprom-Media holding, Radio Liberty devoted a special program to Lesin and his career:

The main source of Lesin's state is considered to be Video International, which he created in the 90s and worked on the television advertising market. Later it was acquired by Yuri Kovalchuk - the main shareholder of the Russian Bank, closely related to the Kremlin.

On November 5, 2015, the body of Mikhail Lesin was found at the Dupon Circle Hotel in Washington, pair of quarters from the White House - two days after Lesin was present at dinner at the Kennan Institute , an analytical center specializing in Russia. Another guest there was Peter Aven , the head of the Board of Directors of Alfa Bank, who organized the invitation of Lesin. Aven later spoke skeptically about the versions of the possible murder of Lesin. Although there were many various rumors about this death:

They say that somewhere here Lesin’s death recalled his death, and now he handed over to Obama all Putin's friends and lives happily.

- Anton SEMAKIN (@antonSEMAKIN) October 30, 2016

The next day, November 4, Lesin, in turn, tried to achieve an invitation to the private event in the Atlantic Council for Aven, but representatives of this organization rejected the request.

In October 2016, the police and the Office of the US Prosecutor General for Washington announced the results of the investigation of the circumstances of the death of Mikhail Lesin. According to them, he died as a result of an accident: the cause of death was the injuries received in the fall. Before his death, 57-year-old Lesin was in a heavy binge for several days.

In April 2016, the yacht belonging to Lesin was sold using an intermediary company from Florida. The declared price amounted to $ 40 million, but the company then refused to report the details of the transaction, saying only that the sale was "impressively fast".