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Russian emails appear to show ‘network' holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin
2022-06-21
[The Guardian] Palaces, yachts and vineyards reportedly provided to Vladimir Putin by friends and oligarchs can now be linked to what appears to be an informal network holding assets worth more than $4.5bn (£3.7bn).

A digital paper trail appears to suggest that an array of holiday homes and other assets reportedly used by the Russian president, which according to available records belong to or have been owned by separate individuals, companies and charities, are linked through a common email domain name, LLCInvest.ru.
Posted by:Matt

#2  But you can't ever leave office or the guys you screwed will find you and take back what they can while making your end slow and horrible. The Bidenista family is getting a smaller taste of this conundrum as we speak. But aside from the Clinton solution ordered up from the suicide hotline, most of what they face is just being broke and permanent dwelling changes.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-06-21 19:10  

#1  That seems a tad light. Here's a different estimate:
$200 Billion Dollar Blackmail
The $200 billion figure was estimated by financier Bill Browder who, in a testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017, said that Putin amassed most of his wealth after a Moscow court jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003 for fraud and tax evasion:

"After Khodorkovsky's conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin's answer was, "50%" He wasn't saying 50% for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50% for Vladimir Putin personally."

On top of all this, the famous Panama Papers revealed a network of secret offshore deals and loans worth $2 billion pointing to Putin in 2016.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-06-21 00:30  

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