Alina, children, trains. What new we learned about the personal wealth and private life of Vladimir Putin from the investigation of the "project"

The Project publication published a large -scale investigation regarding President Vladimir Putin, his family and business. It refers to the Cyprus offshore, which is used to pay for the personal interests of the head of state, about the property, trips and children of his likely mistress Alina Kabaeva and how several railway branches and stations were built specifically for Putin. "Mediazona" briefly retells this material.

Personal offshore Vladimir Putin

Journalists of Project begin by the fact that the primary source of their information was "an important business empire manager of one of the closest friends of the president." It is emphasized that he agreed to meet with reporters, outraged by the invasion of Ukraine: "They (the Russian leadership) have completely lost the shores, they must be stopped."

The interlocutor of the publication, stated, "was directly related to the management of the secret financial network, which included the Cyprus company Ermira ." Formally, this company is owned by St. Petersburg lawyer Vladislav Kopylov, but, according to the source, the offshore is actually used to serve the personal interests of President Vladimir Putin. “The real owner of Ermira is President Putin,” he says.

“We used the term“ pay from Ermira ”, which meant using Putin’s money to pay for a particular transaction (in his interests),” the source notes.

The owner of the company Vladislav Kopylov since the late 1980s worked as a lawyer “and has not achieved special success in his field”, but was friendly with Yuri Kovalchuk and Andrei Fursenko, close to Putin.

Journalists have connected Ermira Consultants with many different business acts, trying to identify some personal interests of Putin. For example, it turned out that the president earned Putinka cheap vodka: for several years, the right to the brand belonged to the “daughter” of Ermira .

In addition, the company owned a share in the National Media Group Kovalchuk, which has shares of the first channel, the fifth channel, STS, REN-TV, Izvestia and other media assets. Moreover, journalists believe that Putin was able to earn on propaganda. “In 2013, Ermira acquired 7.5% of the shares for 76 million euros, but three months later, it was supposedly sold to Gennady Timchenko to 65.6 million euros more expensive,” Project writes.

Further, journalists associate the company with numerous real estate: Putin’s palace at Cape Idokopos in the Krasnodar Territory, which takes place according to the documents as a “boarding house” and the sanatorium “Rus” in Sochi. Also, the traces of the company were found in transactions with apartments that associate with Putin's loved ones. One of them was acquired by Arthur Okheretny - presumably, he was Lyudmila Putin's lover after her divorce from the president. In addition, the land plot is mentioned in Usovo near Moscow, which was recorded on the citizen of the Netherlands of Yiritt Fasen. However, in the last two cases, Ochorayt and Faissen subsequently lost their ownership.

“The inconspicuous Cyprus company Ermira Consultants , which is owned by the face value, and Putin's friends control, is involved in multimillion -dollar operations in the interests of the President of Russia itself. She builds a palace for him, buys real estate for his family, earns on his vodka his name and buys energy and media assets, ”the journalists of Project summarize.

Apartments and children Alina Kabaeva

Ermira was also used to buy four apartments in Sochi residential complexes for Alina Kabaeva.

“The“ gymnast ”came personally and indicated what apartments she needs, and also who should be issued for,” says the interlocutor of Project. The publication clarifies that sources often call Kabaev a “gymnast” in order not to denote her proximity to Putin.

The cost of Kabaeva family is estimated at $ 120 million. Part of this real estate is decorated with grandmother Kabaeva Anna Zatsepilin. Another apartment was first decorated on the founder of the Baltic Media Group Oleg Rudnov, and after his death crossed his son Sergey.

This apartment with an area of ​​2600 square meters occupies two floors in the Penthouse of the Royal Park LCD; In 2021, the REALISTION STRISE OF THE REAL ESTAING "CIAN" called it the largest apartment of Russia.

In 2011, the apartment was estimated at $ 15 million, it was emphasized that this amount included the design project of fashion designer Valentina Yudashkin. There are also two apartments for servants, but it is not clear whether they were included in the price.

“What the author of the interior did not provide here: an apartments of 20 rooms with a circular anniversary of the living rooms, a fireplace hall, a cinema and a billiard room, a private gallery for the collections of works of art, bar, a SPA zone with Sauna and Hammam, several open -air and dastarkhan pavilions, a courtyard for relaxation in the relaxation The Japanese style, a barbecue gazebo in the Moroccan style, an open tanning bed and a font with a hydromassage, as well as a bar with waterfall walls and a mosaic floor, a mini-dance and other zones that allow future owners to realize any recreation scenario. In a word, such a dwelling will satisfy the most demanding taste, ”the advertising prospectus said.

However, in this apartment, as the Project believes, Kabaeva does not live. Journalists noticed that the former gymnast regularly appears in the company of several friends. As it turned out from the flowing database, women often bought tickets to Okulovka and Gorgovka stations - these are public transport stops, which are closest to Putin’s residence on Valdai.

Journalists first published a photo of the interiors of this residence, which they found together with the Navalny team. They are remembered by an abundance of golden details. This is due to this: the first version of this residence, which was ready in 2003, did not fit Putin.

“The decor looked very modern, it was something like hi-tech,” the source of the “project” explains. - And the president did not like it. "How would you like?" - asked him. “Like in St. Petersburg,” the president answered thoughtfully. After leaving, everyone began to think what this means. And they decided that "like in St. Petersburg" is like in the Hermitage. "

According to the “interlocutor, familiar with the device of the presidential residence,” next to her specially built a wooden tower with an area of ​​1,200 square meters - journalists believe that the alleged children of Kabaeva and Putin are brought up there.

“The constant presence of children in the residence is confirmed by the words of the interlocutor of the“ project ”, familiar with the work of the object in Valdai, and indirectly open data,” writes Project. - In particular, in the summer of 2020 and 2021, a small highway for the picture was organized on the site of former helicopter sites. And right next to the residence in the depths of the forest between 2016 and 2020, a large children's playground in yellow-blue colors was erected. ”

The presence of joint children Putin and Kabaeva indicates another circumstance. Journalists found a photo taken on May 9, 2019, in which three women from Switzerland pose during the parade on the stand of Lenin Mausoleum. You can get there only by invitation from the Kremlin. “Project” believes that these women helped Kabaeva in childbirth.

The pier is also installed in Putin Terem’s residence, a channel can be crossed from it and find yourself in a park with an area of ​​28 hectares - there used to be a forest nursery, but now Kovalchuk has been leased to land. In addition, not far from the Terem and the President’s residence, there is “a huge spa complex with a solarium, cryocamer, a 25-meter basin, a hammam, a sauna, a mud in mud, massage baths, cosmetology and dentistry zones”. For Putin guests, a hockey platform is built in the residence.

“Project” notes that in order to protect the president’s residence, the Pankir-1C air defense system was put in the neighboring village of Lycherovo at the end of last year.

In parallel, the “Project” reports that Kovalchuk has a “separate gift museum, whose building exceeds the palaces of many prominent officials in scale.” It is located in the village of Koloskovo, the Leningrad region, and is copying the avant-garde building of Pod Pavilion in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur-it looks like a larva or cocoon.

“The house was built between local lakes, blocking one of them access. After the activists sent complaints to the authorities, the State Employment Committee first decided that there were no violations during construction, but then he still prescribed the local administration (but, of course, not Kovalchuk) to provide access to the shore, ”the newspaper writes.

Armored ghost train to the presidential residence

Project journalists from local residents on Valdai learned that Putin, visiting the residence, first arrives at the secret station, which is located on the branch of the main railway, and then flies into the house by helicopter. The publication found this station.

“At the gate of the fenced and protected station there is an emblem of the Ministry of Emergencies. One of the guards, talking with a project correspondent, called the object a “special station” and said that the passage there was closed, ”the publication says.

“Previously, the Valdai railway was in terrible condition, it was possible to go along it no more than 15–25 km/h. When they began to prepare the railway for the residence on Valdai, the part of the existing ways along which Putin was supposed to go through was repaired, and those sections where he did not need did not, ”the former driver who worked on the site between Moscow and St. Petersburg says to the publication.

Similar secret stations are claimed to have Putin’s residences in Novo-Ogravo and Sochi near Moscow, and the head of state leaves for them from a special station near the Moscow-Kalanchevskaya station near the Square of three stations.

Putin moves, presumably on an armored train: a former driver saw him, and noticed the tranospotters who talked about him in their forums. One of them told the “project” that after the publication in the thematic blog “had problems with the FSO”. He described the train like this: “There is a ghost train on the railways of our country. It is neither in schedules or in Russian Railways; Its windows are curtained, there are no numbers and identification marks on the locomotives, it rushes like a frantic one, and all other graphic trains part in front of him. On the sides of his wagons, the Emblems "Grand-Service Express" flaunt, on the signs there is always the same Evpatoria-St. Petersburg route. "

Editor: Maria Klimova