Among them were four businessmen belonging to the “inner circle of the Russian leadership” - Gennady Timchenko, brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, as well as Yuri Kovalchuk. All of them, the document explains, were engaged in sponsorship, financial, material, technical and other types of support in relation to “a high-ranking official in the government of the Russian Federation.” President Putin, as follows from what follows.