Putin's daughter's husband's villa seized in France

In total, several villas, dozens of yachts and other assets worth billions of dollars are under arrest in Europe.

In France, the villa of a Russian businessman, husband of Putin's daughter Yekaterina Tikhonova, Kirill Shamalov, was arrested, reports BFM Bussines . The estate of Oleg Deripaska and Chechen businessman Musa Bazaev also fell under state administration.

The estate of Shamalov, Putin's former son-in-law, is located in Biarritz. It was purchased in 2012. Shamalov's father, according to the publication, is known as Putin's personal banker. With the support of Putin, Kirill Shamalov received for a few hundred dollars a 3.8% stake in Sibur, which is now valued at several hundred million dollars.

According to Gulagu.net, in the 90s, Vladimir Putin was very fond of coming to Biarritz. He also brought his teacher and ex-boss Anatoly Sobchak here when he was forced to hide in France from criminal prosecution.

One of Putin's accomplices and accomplices of the Lake cooperative, Gennady Timchenko, bought one of the most expensive villas with a view of the Biarritz lighthouse and the beaches of Anglet to please Putin. For the wedding of Putin's daughter to Kirill Shamalov, Timchenko presented her as a wedding gift and gave Putin the royal seat.

Also arrested was the villa of Oleg Deripaska, the owner of Rusal, located on the outskirts of Saint-Tropez. He purchased it in 2005. In March, his yacht was arrested in the Maldives.

Attention to the villa was attracted by Sergei Savelyev, who penetrated it. Because of this, Shamalov turned to law enforcement agencies. So real estate attracted the attention of the authorities.

Real estate in the Riviera, a copy of the famous Trianon Palace, located not far from the Palace of Versailles, also fell under the sanctions. It belongs to Chechen businessman Musa Bazaev, who purchased it in the 2000s. He leads the Alliance energy group, created in 1998 by his brother.

• In total, in France, the state took control of four yachts, six helicopters and 33 villas of Russian oligarchs.
• In the Netherlands arrested 20 yachts of Russian oligarchs, wrote CNN. It was reported that an investigation is underway: who owns these yachts. At this time, ships cannot be transported, transferred to anyone. At least two of them belong to people from the sanctions list. Of 20 yachts, the length of which varies from 8.5 meters to 120 meters. According to the Dutch authorities, fourteen are under construction, two in storage and four under renovation.
• According to RBC , the Finnish customs detained 21 yachts, the owners of the ships are also being checked.
• A superyacht worth £38m has been detained in the UK. It belongs to a Russian businessman close to Putin, but his name was not disclosed. According to Novaya Gazeta, the mansions of Alisher Usmanov were arrested in the UK, the accounts of Abramovich, Deripaska, Sechin, the head of VTB Andrei Kostin, the president of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev, the chairman of the board of Gazprom Alexei Miller, and the chairman of the board of directors of Rossiya Bank Dmitry Lebedev were frozen .
• In Italy, two yachts are under arrest: businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Gennady Timchenko. The attention of the authorities was attracted by the villas of Alisher Usmanov, State Duma deputy Oleg Savchenko and journalist Vladimir Solovyov, writes DW.
• In Spain, there are three yachts of Roman Abramovich Solaris, CEO of Rostec Corporation Sergey Chemezov, member of the Federation Council Andrey Molchanov.
• Reuters reported on six Russian yachts in the Maldives, which have owners who may be under sanctions. Among the likely owners were Andrei Mlnichenko, Alexander Abramov and Igor Kesaev.
• Latvia has frozen the assets of the banker Peter Aven, writes . Novaya Gazeta