Putin with a high degree of probability could receive $ 1.12 billion through a figurehead from the resale of the Russian gas company Yamal LNG, transfer it to a Panamanian offshore and buy a Graceful yacht with part of this money, says Dossier.
The material of the center says that in the early 2000s, a classmate of the President of the Russian Federation at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University and his distant relative (married to Putin’s cousin Lyubov Kruglova) Viktor Khmarin made Putin’s childhood friend Pyotr Kolbin, who previously worked as a butcher, nominal owner of the Raznoexport company.
“Dossier” found out that in 2003 the company acquired the company “YamalInvest”, engaged in the supply of equipment for “Gazprom”. Kolbin later became one of three shareholders in Yamal LNG, a large liquefied natural gas production and processing enterprise, the construction of which was personally supervised by Putin.
Kolbin, according to Dossier, owned a 25.1% stake in Yamal LNG. The other two shareholders were Novatek, owned by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson (he owned 51% of the shares), and billionaire Gennady Timchenko close to Putin. (owned 23.9% of stock), who was also friends with Kolbin since childhood. Investigators point out that Kolbin has been Timchenko’s primary partner since the early 2000s.
The Dossier Center traced that in 2011, Kolbin and Timchenko’s shares were bought, while the money from this sale – the same $1.12 billion – went to Kolbin’s offshore Panamanian Mischositos Investment SA
Kolbin, the investigators specify, died in 2018, after his death his wife and partly his son inherited his property.
The Dossier Center believes that Putin himself is allegedly the beneficiary of the Panamanian company.
“It could have remained a secret, but the president was disillusioned with his love of luxury,” the president said.researchers.
According to them, it was Mischositos Investment SA that paid for the construction of the 82-meter Graceful yacht, worth about $100 million.
Graceful is allegedly Putin’s yacht. This is supported by several circumstantial evidence. So, the ship’s course repeatedly coincided with the schedule Put inespecially often the ship appeared off the coast of Sochi, where the residence of the President of the Russian Federation “Bocharov Ruchey” and the palace on Cape Idokopas, allegedly belonging to the leader of the occupying country, are located.
Note that the official owner of the yacht is the Argument company, co-founded by the head of the Russian presidential administration Alexander Kolpakov and the head of the 1473 military unit of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Oleg Kuznetsov. As the Dossier mentions, the wives of Kolpakov and Kuznetsov owned a company that managed the entire complex at Cape Idokopas, and the FSO officers themselves were directly involved in the construction of the palace.
In the Dossier investigation, published on 7 September, it was stated that another yacht, the Scheherazade, Russian oligarchs gave Putin for the New Yearand its construction cost 583 million euros. According to the New York Times, Scheherazade’s cost is $700 million. According to the NYT, “Scheherazade” sailed to Sochi in the summer of 2020 and 2021, when Putin spent a lot of time there during the coronavirus pandemic.
In March, the investigators Putin has found another yacht – Negawhich the President of the Russian Federation uses to travel to the north of Russia.
In total, the President of the Russian Federation at least six yachtsPolygon reported. In addition to Scheherazade, Nega and Graceful, moored in Kaliningrad, where it is hidden by sanctions, we are talking about the 57-metre Olympia worth 37 million dollars, donated by entrepreneur Roman Abramovich; 54-meter yacht “Chaika” worth 30 million euros; The 46-meter Shellest, worth $23.9 million, is intended for trips to Cape Idokopas on the Black Sea coast, where Putin’s palace is located.
140-meter yacht “Scheherazade”, which flies the flag of the Cayman Islands, Italian authorities arrested on May 5 in the port of Marina di Carrara in Tuscany. Since February, the yachts of many Russian businessmen close to the President of the Russian Federation have also been detained as part of the sanctions.
On September 7, Putin announced it the arrest of the yachts will be a “lesson” for the Russian oligarchs. According to him, if businessmen kept their “boats” in Russia, then they “would not lose anything” from the imposition of sanctions.
