The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, bought in 1996 a villa in the French tourist town of Biarritz that is registered in the name of one of his daughters, according to the Europe 1 radio station.
The purchase price was about $ 400 .000 points out the station, which assures that the information was confirmed by the French secret services.
At that time, Putin was an official of the St. Petersburg mayor’s office with a reduced salary, which has sparked suspicion for years in the French media that investigate the properties of the family of the Russian president in this country.
Putin, his first wife and their two daughters spent in that house the summer of 1999, reported in 2015 the newspaper SudOuest.
Journalists from Europe 1 have now visited the house, where they have been attended by a woman, who spoke French with a Russian accent, and who assured She decided to work as a domestic worker and not know the owners.
The villa is regularly visited by people close to Putin, adds the radio, citing local sources.
Also in Biarritz, an exclusive vacation spot on the Basque-French coast (southwest of the country), there is another luxurious villa on the edge of the beach, built in 1930 with an “art deco” style, and whose ownership several French media attribute to the first wife of the Russian president, recalls Europe 1.
Furthermore, a woman who, according to the Russian media, would be Putin’s lover, Svetlana Krivonogikh, bought a luxury apartment in Monaco in 2003 for four million dollars using accounts in tax havens, according to the journalistic investigation published last October under the name of the “Pandora Papers”.
This investigation, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was carried out by 600 media reporters from various countries about 35 world leaders, including 14 Latin Americans, who operated in tax havens to avoid public scrutiny.
Putin and his entourage were among those scrutinized, but that investigation was then disqualified as unreliable by the spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov.
The president, the prime minister and the head of Foreign Affairs of Russia are part of the new list of nearly a hundred people whom the European Union announced yesterday that it will freeze its assets in community territory.
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