
The head of the State Bank of VTB Andrei Kostin for the first time commented on the investigation of the Corruption Fund, which claimed that he was associated with personal relations with the TV presenter "Russia 1" Naili Asker-Zade. According to the FBK, it is at the expense of Kostin that the presenter can afford to use elite real estate, a yacht for $ 62 million and a private plane.
Kostin first said that he was going to “take some actions”, but then corrected, saying that “Navalny’s work was to slander, throw dirt and make his capital on this, and he does not want to help the head of the FBK in this. “I will not comment on this anymore,” Kostin summed up.
The FBK investigation on Kostin and Asker-Zade was published on December 2. To date, almost 5 and a half million people watched him on the Utuyub channel of Alexei Navalny.