Real estate of the Putin family in Europe: villas in Spain, apartments in the Netherlands, houses in Switzerland

In June, Canada introduced restrictions against Lyudmila Putina and the president's relatives. What is known about their overseas properties - from Lake Geneva to Marbella

In June, Canada added to the sanctions list the relatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin: his ex-wife Lyudmila and cousins ​​Mikhail Putin and Mikhail Shelomov. They will be banned from entering the country and their assets will be frozen if any are found. “Layout” tells what property has already been found in the president’s family abroad.

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Katerina Tikhonova - house in Spain
Maria Vorontsova - apartments in the Netherlands
Lyudmila Putina - real estate in France and Spain
Alina Kabaeva - at home in Switzerland
Svetlana Krivonogikh – apartment in Monaco

How much does Katerina Tikhonova’s villa cost in the Basque country?

In 2015, Reuters investigators discovered a house in the prestigious French resort of Biarritz that belonged to the then-husband of Putin’s youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova, Kirill Shamalov.

The four-storey villa “Alta Mira” is located on the shores of the Bay of Biscay and was then valued at 3.5 million euros. Now there are the same number of houses of similar size far from the coast. The daughter of Putin and Shamalov was often seen in the city, Time said .

The building remains the property of Shamalov, who fell under EU sanctions in 2022, but he cannot dispose of it. That same year, pro-Ukrainian activists from Russia tried to seize the mansion. Tikhonova had already divorced him by that time, and choreographer Igor Zelensky became her partner. Investigators found two apartments in Munich, jointly owned with his ex-wife and children.

How Maria Vorontsova acquired penthouses in the “Crimean Quarter” in the Netherlands

Putin's eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova lived in the Netherlands, where her first husband, Jorrit Faasen, is from. In the Netherlands, the couple owned two penthouses on the outskirts of Leiden, in the Krimwijk (“Crimean Quarter”) residential complex.

The cadastral value of apartments in 2009 was estimated at 700 thousand euros. In 2019, one of them, or both combined into one, was put up for sale for 2.9 million euros. At her house in the Netherlands, as neighbors claimed , they even saw the President of Russia himself, going shopping with numerous guards.

In 2023, the Dutch prosecutor's office seized a plot of land in the suburbs of Amsterdam belonging to Jorrit Faasen, Vorontsova's ex-husband. Faassen bought a plot of 1,432 square meters in the Duivendrecht area for 450 thousand euros from the structure of Putin’s friends. In 2021, he wanted to build a residential building and six office spaces there.

What real estate of Lyudmila Putina was found in Spain and France

Another house in Biarritz, with an area of ​​450 sq. m. m, belongs to the husband of the ex-wife of Russian President Lyudmila Putina, Artur Ocheretny. In 2017, a building 300 meters from the beach in the town of Anglet between Biarritz and Bayonne was valued at 7 million euros.

On an area of ​​450 square meters there are four bedrooms, a dining room with access to the terrace and a billiard room, a consortium of investigative journalists OCCRP spoke about the mansion. The building is surrounded by a spacious private park of 5,000 square meters with an outdoor swimming pool and a music pavilion. In December 2023, the building was seized as part of a criminal investigation into money laundering.

In Marbella, Spain, in 2023, FBK found two apartments belonging to Ocheretny, located in the Royal Hills residential complex. One, with an area of ​​229 sq. m, he bought in 2011 for 800 thousand euros, the second, 405-meter (half is occupied by a terrace), in 2014 - for a million. Both apartments were issued with a mortgage; Ocheretny could receive a residence permit in Spain for one of the purchases, Politico magazine noted .

Lyudmila Putina is a philologist and novelist by training and speaks French and Spanish; her husband’s property could have been selected taking into account her interests. Then the third apartment, in Davos, takes into account the interests of her husband.

The 200-meter apartment consists of three bedrooms, a living room and a dining room. The house is located next to a mountain lake not far from the forest. In 2015, the property was valued at 3.5 million Swiss francs (this currency is close to the euro).

How much did Alina Kabaeva’s house in Switzerland sell for?

Numerous investigations call Alina Kabaeva the mother of Vladimir Putin’s youngest children and his constant partner. In 2022, the house she allegedly used was put up for sale for 75 million Swiss francs.

A two-story house with a helipad on the site is located in Cologny next to the house of Putin’s friend Gennady Timchenko. The mansion is located on a small hill overlooking the bay of Lake Geneva. Its owners, according to documents, were financier Pierre Alain Folier and his wife Van Lin, the Dossier center wrote .

The publication mentions that Kabaeva used another Swiss house, a residence in Lugano. Details about her are unknown. Near Lugano there is a clinic where a former gymnast allegedly gave birth to one of Putin’s sons in the spring of 2015.

Who is Svetlana Krivonogikh's apartment in Monaco registered to?

As journalists from “Important Stories” found out , an apartment in Monaco with a sea view worth 3.6 million euros is owned by Svetlana Krivonogikh, the mother of Putin’s illegitimate daughter, Elizaveta Krivonogikh (Rudenko) . Svetlana Krivonogikh’s apartment is located in the Monte Carlo Star residential complex not far from the Monte Carlo casino.
Formally, the property is registered in the offshore company Brockville, of which Svetlana Krivonogikh was a beneficiary from at least 2006 to 2017.

As Vorstka previously reported, Vladimir Putin was in a relationship with Svetlana Krivonogikh in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The third, youngest, daughter of Putin, Elizaveta Krivonogikh, became known only in 2020. She also used the surname Rozova, and around the summer of 2021 she became Elizaveta Olegovna Rudnova. Oleg Rudnov was a close friend of Putin, for whom apartments were registered for Alina Kabaeva. He worked as director of Channel Five in St. Petersburg and died in 2015.

Putin's illegitimate daughter is now 22 years old. She studied in Paris at ICART, a private school of management in culture and art. Now Elizaveta Krivonogikh also lives in Paris and works at the L Galerie gallery, where anti-war art is exhibited.

Photo: Four-story villa “Alta Mira” in Biarritz, owned by the ex-husband of Putin’s youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova, Kirill Shamalov. Radio Liberty

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