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Portrait of Nili Asker-Zade, journalist and billionaire
Maria Zholobova, with the participation of Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, August 7, 2019
The host of the State television channel Russia 1 and the holder of TEFI NAIL ASSKER-ZADE takes an interview from billionaires, ministers and heads of state corporations. But Asker-Zade, judging by her property, earns more than her other interlocutors. Only Asker-Zade's property, which the project found, can cost nearly $ 50 million.
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“Who is he, I won’t tell in detail,” says Nail Asker-Zade about her beloved man in an interview with Tatler in July this year. - Whoever needs it, they already know about it.
An interview with the TV presenter “Russia-1” in the main social magazine of Russia was the main theme of the number. True, this did not help the authors answer the question of how the leading not the most rating program on Goskanal can afford the luxurious life that it fixes its Instagram account-expensive outfits, a yacht, rest on the Cote d'Azur, then on African safari. Because this question most likely did not ask.
One of the conditions of the conversation with Tatler was the ban on the discussion of Andrei Kostin, the President of the State Bank of VTB, heard a source close to the Publishing House of Condé Nast. The chief editor of Tatler Ksenia Solovieva refused to answer the questions of the “project”. Now this article about the personal life of Asker-Zade, probably the only one that Roskomnadzor does not clean from the Internet. The rest are blocked with manic persistence. Almost a thousand links to the Internet page with the mention of the TV presenter and banker have already been recognized as illegal and subject to removal. “The interview, taken by Asker-Zade from Kostin, was immediately blocked by Roskomnadzor,” they joke on the Internet.
Andrei Kostin heads VTB Bank, the second largest bank in Russia, more than 60% of which belongs to the state. Kostin is 62 years old, he has been managing the bank for almost 20 years, since 2002. In 2018, the banker got into the US sanctions list as a “official of the Government of the Russian Federation”. Kostin himself denies that he is an official. For several years in a row, the rating of the highest paid top managers according to Forbes. When the magazine refused to release the rating and released another, “most influential” Russians, Kostin got into it.
Before the banking business, Kostin has been in the diplomatic service for more than 10 years: at the Consulate General of the USSR in Australia and at the USSR Embassy in the UK, which gave rise to record it in KGB officers (Kostin himself refutes it).
Repeatedly wrote about his proximity to Vladimir Putin. “Kostin’s personal relationship with Putin is very strong, he is untouchable,” said, for example, the source of Financial Times.
How Nilya Asker-Zade takes sharp interviews
Billionaire
The village of Razdori is considered the most expensive place in the Rublevo-Uspensky highway. There are many pluses: this is the "first" village of Rublevka in the literal sense of the word. The discord is located only 4 km from the Moscow Ring Road. The main Rublevsky attraction - the “elite” shopping center Barvikha Luxury Village, where Brioni costumes and Ferrari cars are sold a ten minutes driving.
As the Project found out, a year ago, the full namesake Naili Asker-Zade became the owner of the huge-almost 43 thousand square meters. meters - a area of forest near the village of Razdora, an extract from the USRN testifies. The ASKER-ZADE section is located next to the Barvikha-4 State District, in which Mikhail Gorbachev lived, and then Boris Yeltsin.
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The site of Naili, although so far it is an almost continuous forest, was bought for the construction of a suburban mansion - according to the documents, it has the status “for individual housing construction”.
Around the section of the Asker-Zade-the territory of the Serebryanoborsky forestry, a specially protected natural territory with red-blooded animals and plants. The status of a reserve was given to these forests only in 2017. Now it is forbidden to cut down. The Forest Plot of Naili was not included in the reserve - like the forest plot rented in the neighborhood of the deputy chairman of the government Anton Siluanov. Another neighbor Asker-Zade and Siluanov-Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov, said Alexei Navalny.
The nearest settlement is the elite village of Razdor-2 company Roman Abramovich in now former specially protected natural territories. In the village of Abramovich, the value of the land of land is 6.7 million rubles, according to the data on the CIAN website.
Thus, the site of Nili Asker-Zade can cost about 2.8 billion rubles or almost $ 45 million. The TV presenter herself told the “project” that this was not her site, but to the question of why her full name was indicated in the statement: she answered:
The ASKER-ZADE section was sold by Timur Klinovsky-the son of Timofei Klinovsky, the former shareholder of the Vimm-Bill-Danna and one of the main Rublevsky developers. Klinovsky, as well as his eminent partners, Gabriel Yushvaev and David Yakobashvili, for example, were the assistant to President Larisa Brychev and the alleged wife of the security chief Dmitry Medvedev Mikhail Mikheev, her site was found by the New Gazeta. Timur Klinovsky participates in the development business with his father. It was he who sold the plot of Alisher Usmanov’s sister, who was then transferred to the Medvedev classmate fund, which gave Aleksey Navalny to blame the prime minister of receiving a bribe.
-I have an apartment, not eight, but one-I spoke Asker-will in an interview with Tatler. This is not true. In September 2011, she becamethe owner of an apartment of 228 square meters. meters in the 1st Protievsky Lane, and in 2014, another, neighboring, with an area of 155 square meters, passed into property. meters, reported by BAZA. The total cost of apartments of ASSKER-WACH in this house can be estimated at 300 million rubles.
The sister of Asker-Zade Inara is also provided with real estate. She owns an apartment of 144 square meters. meters in the house on Nezhinskaya Street, in the residential complex "Kutuzovskaya Riviera". Apartment of a little smaller area, 140 square meters. meters, is now sold there for 72 million rubles ($ 1.1 million).
The only car that Asker-USA demonstrates in its Instagram-the retro-Volga, GAZ-21, which the TV presenter in an interview with Oleg Deripaska called "the blue dream of any Soviet citizen." From an interview with Tatler, you can find out that it was on the Volga that the grandfather-Moryak-“Captain I Range, the head of a large military plant” took her from school. Now this car is from the plot about Deripaska in the ownership of Asker-Zade, but this is not its only car. She also has much more expensive cars: Tesla X, BMW X5. Moreover, in 2011, Asker-Zade was registered at Andrei Kostin’s apartment in Bolive Lane.
Aston Martin DV9, BMW 325, Mercedes-Benz Cls 400, Porsche Cayenne are recorded on Naili Inar. The alleged mother, Albina Asker-Zade, a woman born in 1963, who previously owned the apartment of Inara Asker-Zade on Nezhinskaya Street-Mercedes Benz E 200.
Journalist
Nail Asker-Zade began her career in places where it was not customary to hide information about relations with speakers. At first there was Kommersant, then the Vedomosti newspaper - in both publications it was considered one of the best journalists. “She wanted to tear everyone,” recalls the former colleague Asker-Zade on Kommersant. Asker-Zade worked in the economic department, specialized in banks, including VTB.
Among other things, she wrote about the scandalous purchase of Chinese drilling rigs, when the Navalny Bank minority found out that VTB purchased them 1.5 times more than the official price. According to Navalny, who attended the meeting of the bank's shareholders, he and Asker-Zade often "washed the bones of this Kostin."
In May 2011, an interview with Asker-Zade with Kostin was published in Vedomosti. VTB just aggressively absorbed the Bank of Moscow. Criminal cases were initiated against the leadership of the latter, his President Andrei Borodin prudently left for London.
In preparation for an interview, the VTB press service demanded questions-Asker-Zade sent 96. "So, we will answer everything!" - Then she boasted by Kostin Nailya’s response to his colleagues, recalls the former journalist Vedomosti.
“It was more like a protocol of interrogation,” the former colleague Asker-Zade recalls that interview. According to him, such an interview could not be if the interlocutor clearly did not sympathize with her. Asker-Zade asked Kostin: “Why should I believe you?”
A month later, there was the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which ASSKER-ZADA illuminated as a journalist Vedomosti. Kostin, according to tradition, represented the banking elite there. After the forum, Asker-Zade did not release a single note about VTB, and soon left the newspaper at all.
“The dream of television took her,” Asker-Zade explained in an interview with Tatler. “I was invited to VGTRK, and I left.” This is also not true.
The reason for the departure of Asker-Zade was another event. According to the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tatyana Lysova, Asker-Zade informed her of a conflict of interest due to the relationship with the Top Manager of VTB. “She did not name the name, but for me the name did not matter. It was obvious to us that she needed to change the topic. She was a valuable journalist for Vedomosti, but we have half an economy on VTB or his competitors, ”Lysova explained to the“ project ”.
The news of the novel by Asker-Zade with Kostin spread widely. Then Nalya did not hide this: Kostin even called Vedomosti reporters from the Aker-Zade phone, one of her former colleagues recalls.
Financier
Perhaps notes about Kostin and Asker-Zade are so carefully cleaned out of the Internet, because the head of VTB is worried about his income declaration, the former senior civil servant believes. When there was a discussion about the mandatory declaration of property and income by the heads of state-owned companies, Kostin was one of the opponents of this idea, “not wanting to disclose information about his children,” another ex-official recalled. The same version - about children - adheres to the interlocutor close to the leadership of VTB. According to him, Kostin has minor children both from the former wife and Naili. Because of this, the head of VTB has personal difficulties. The formal status of a banker’s relationship with Asker-Zade is still unknown, but Kostin is obliged to indicate the property of minor children in the declaration.
Prime Minister Medvedev ordered two heads of state banks-VTB and Sberbank-to disclose information about his income, property, as well as relevant information about his wife and minor children in 2014. In the same year, Kostin, apparently, divorced his wife Natalya Gordeeva, since as a result of the “division of property” it became the owner of the land on Rublevka, the data of Rosreestr testify. In total, Gordeeva has about 2.5 hectares there in the village of Gorki-2 in the territory of the Sosna-15 cottage cooperative. The average cost of a hundred in the “Pines-15” on a site with a house is 10.6 million rubles. on the basis of offers on the website cian.ru. So Gordeeva’s property can cost about 2.5 billion rubles, which approximately corresponds to the cost of the site of the new chosen one of the State Banker.
The Kostin declaration never got into public access. The “project” requested it from VTB and was refused on the basis that Kostin was not obliged to publicly disclose income information.
Moreover, any attempts to evaluate his income came across the tough opposition of the State Bank-just like in history with notes about Asker-Zade. For example, Forbes magazine, starting in 2012, has prepared the annual rating of the most expensive top managers of the country, where Kostin traditionally was in the leaders. In 2016, Kostin was also in the top three of the highest paid, but on the site of the amount of remuneration it was empty-the owner of the magazine Alexander Fedotov, due to a possible conflict with VTB, ordered to remove the assessment from the magazine, according to the author of the ranking of Elena Berezanskaya.
When in 2012 the same Forbes argued with VTB about the size of Kostin’s remuneration, the magazine insisted : Kostin receives most of his income not in VTB, but abroad, through a branch of VTB in Cyprus - Russian Commercial Bank (RCB). Forbes called this offshore "wallet" of top managers VTB. According to the magazine, in 2011 and 2012, VTB key top managers received about $ 80 million as dividends.
Headed by the Cyprus "daughter" of VTB Kirill Zimarin. The name is also the person who gave Asker-will her first apartment in Zakotyevsky Lane is evidenced by the data of Rosreestr. The owner of her second apartment was originally VTB Bank itself. Then she went into the ownership of the Eraleson Investments Limited, and then, in April 2014-Asker-Zade, the apartment of Andrei Kostin in Basky Lane was also originally owned by VTB North-West.
Sister Asker-Zade Inara is also tightly connected with VTB. Although the “project” Asker-Zade said that “her sister works as a mother”, Inara Asker-Zade is listed in the VTB bank employees in the position of Global Banking manager, the interlocutor of Project in VTB said, the bank’s press service did not comment on this. The list of participants in the International Investment Forum in Sochi is at the disposal of the “project”, in 2015 there are both sisters of Asker-Zade-and both are indicated as “assistants to the presidential chairman of the Bank of VTB Bank”, that is, Kostin. Also at the disposal of the “project” there is a letter addressed to Asker-USA from the director of “Movement of France Enterprises” Michel Gulbo, confirming her registration at the Business Twenth forum in Cannes at the end of October 2011. And there Asker-Zade was registered as a “specialist VTB” (*!. The document is available in the archive of hacker leaks published by OCCRP). At that time, Nalya was already working at VGTRK. Nail herself told the “project” that she had never worked in VTB, and the interlocutor, familiar with Kostin, suggested that the journalist does not take part in the work of the bank, but is listed in the list of employees “for personal reasons” - to be able to travel with her life companion.
Confirmation of the registration of NILI ASSKER-ZADE for the Business Twenth forum in Cannes. Source: OCCRP.org
Leading
The TV presenter said in an interview with Tatler that she herself received an invitation from VGTRK, where he has been working since 2011. But this is not entirely true, a source close to the leadership of VGTRK recalls. To get a job in Russia-24, Asker-Zade called the then Deputy Head of Goskanal Dmitry Mednikov. “Maybe his number was taken in Kostin's reception. But she had an interview, ”recalls a source of Project, close to the leadership of the state media-holding.
The conflict of interests, which became the reason for the departure of Asker-Zade from the newspaper, does not mean anything on Russian state television, say the interlocutors of the “project” who worked at the VGTRK. During the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2013, Asker-Zade came to work by car with Kostin, the eyewitness recalls. When Nailya flew to Chechnya for an interview with Kadyrov, almost no one noticed that exactly during the journalist’s visit to Instagram Ramzan Kadyrov, a photo with Kostin appeared - now the photo is available only in the archive. Nail and Kostin really arrived in Chechnya together, according to a source close to Kadyrov. It was Kostin who called the head of Chechnya to agree on this interview, the interlocutor close to Kadyrov claims. Kostin is generally interested in the successes of Asker-Zade on the channel: he called, asked whether he was coping, says the interlocutor of the “project”, close to the leadership of VGTRK.
Perhaps Asker-USA is connected by working relations and with other Newsmakers. At the beginning of this year, the name Naili was included in the list of employees of the EN+ Oleg Deripaska-in the head office of the company on Vasilisa Kozhina Street in Moscow, Asker-Zade had a separate office, the company employee says. When a project correspondent arrived in EN+ under the guise of a courier, two employees of the company said that the ASSKER-WASTED was "inquired" in the company. Officially in EN+ they refute this: the company representative Vera Kurochkina told the project that ASKER-WASE never worked for them. It also denies Nailya herself.
For VGTRK, it is not a problem that Deripaska himself is a frequent guest of Ethera Naili. “There is no conflict of interests,” explains the former producer of the channel. For example, if it is not possible to quickly organize a business trip at the expense of the channel, the producers ask for some company about the Barter-paying for expenses in exchange for interviews on the air. Asker-Zade, her acquaintance says with similar difficulties: she complained that the TV channel did not pay for her business trips. The journalist flies in a business class, which is not covered by the accounting department of the state department, the interlocutor on the channel says. “Project” sent a request to the press service of the Russia 1 channel regarding a possible conflict of interest, but has not yet received an answer.
Nail immediately hit the frame, although at first she spoke unprofessional, recalls the former employee of Russia-24. She alone was allowed to go on the air with loose ones - below the waist - hair. Evgeny Bekasov, chief editor of Russia-24, could swift any presenter, but not Asker-Zade, recalls another former employee of the channel.
At the same time, asker-USA is very ambitious and efficient, her colleagues admit. Четкости речи Наиля училась, артикулируя с камнями во рту , говорит близкий к руководству ВГТРК источник, и вообще выделялась на фоне остальных ведущих, которые больше напоминали говорящие головы. Плюс у нее есть источники, каких нет ни у кого.
«Она приводила топовых спикеров. У нее есть прямой выход на верхушку. Например, Алишер Усманов — абсолютно ее тема», — говорит бывший продюсер «России-24». Дерипаска и вовсе давал интервью Аскер-заде несколько раз. «А из него обычно х**, что вытянешь. То нельзя обсуждать, это нельзя, проще отказаться», — вспоминает близкий к главе ВГТРК Олегу Добродееву собеседник «Проекта».
По словам бывшего продюсера телеканала, Наиля знает рамки ВГТРК и никогда не будет задавать «некорректных» вопросов. «Но она кайфует от того, что может, извините, подъ****ть Дерипаску. Приходит с интервью и говорит: ну, я его поколола», — рассказывает ее бывший коллега. Правда, уколы не касаются острых тем.
Уже через пару месяцев после ухода из «Ведомостей» вышел сюжет Наили на ВГТРК — это было интервью с финансовым экспертом Джимом Роджерсом про «безграмотность финансовых властей США» и экономические проблемы Европы. Относительно России же был дан крайне оптимистичный прогноз. Все интервью — в «теплой, дружеской обстановке». Для программы Аскер-заде Дерипаска в рабочей спецовке водил грузовик, Усманов рассказывал об отношениях со своей женой Ириной Винер, миллиардер Владимир Потанин спускался в шахту, а директор СВР Сергей Нарышкин стрелял из пистолета. Гости всегда идеологически верные и нередко связанные с ВТБ. Одним из последних гостей Аскер-заде стал украинский кум Путина и пророссийски настроенный депутат Рады Виктор Медведчук — прямо накануне выборов в украинский парламент, куда он тогда избирался. В 2017 году Аскер-заде взяла интервью у Кадырова для своей новой программы «Действующие лица», уже на канале «Россия-1» — журналистку повысили. Первый выпуск «Действующих лиц» был с Антоном Силуановым — главой наблюдательного совета ВТБ. Также интервью Аскер-заде давал министр экономики Максим Орешкин — бывший сотрудник «ВТБ Капитала».
Близкий к руководству ВГТРК собеседник «Проекта» говорит, что программа Наили — не тот случай, чтобы инициатива исходила «сверху». Максимум, что нужно Кремлю от телеканалов — дать нужный комментарий, объясняет он. «Действующие лица» — не тот формат. «Какой-нибудь Силуанов в X6 (BMW X6, марка автомобиля, в котором Силуанов дал интервью Аскер-заде в 2017 году — „Проект“) не произведет магического впечатления на пенсионеров, а это основная аудитория», — объясняет собеседник «Проекта».
К тому же программа Наили идет далеко не в прайм-тайм. В телепрограмме она стоит в ночь с воскресенья на понедельник, после «Воскресного вечера с Владимиром Соловьевым». Раньше по расписанию она начиналась в 00:30. Часто Соловьев заговаривался — тогда программа Аскер-заде выходила еще позже. Сейчас «Действующие лица» выходят в час ночи. Рейтинг невысокий — 1% , по данным «Медиаскоп» с января по июнь 2019 года.
При этом в прошлом году Наиля взяла «Тэфи» в номинации лучший интервьюер и «радовалась как ребенок», вспоминает ее эмоции бывшая коллега. В номинации она обошла самого Владимира Познера. У выхода с церемонии победительницу встречал Костин с огромным букетом цветов , вспоминает очевидец этого события.
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Формально Аскер-заде, хотя и работает на государственном канале, не является госслужащей. Зарплата топ-ведущих ВГТРК — несколько сотен тысяч рублей , говорит источник, близкий к руководству холдинга. Общая стоимость только недвижимого имущества Аскер-заде, найденного «Проектом», составляет почти 3 млрд рублей.
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