Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva, a gymnast who has been identified as the mother of his children, live together in a residence in Valdai and allegedly use the funds that the president has in the company Ermira Consultants to live.
With the funds of the Ermira Consultants company “hidden in Cyprus”, the president and his family buy luxury real estate (such as in Valdai), according to a report by the Ukrainska Pravda outlet.
“Basically, the funds are laundered through the company Ermira Consultants, which has shares in companies important to Putin,” says the Ukrainian media.
It should be noted that Ermira controls the company “Real Invest”, which owns the vodka trademark “Putinka”. According to the report, Putin and his entourage receive funding from virtually every bottle of vodka sold.
According to the outlet, the journalists met with the former business manager of one of the president’s closest friends, who was involved in running a “secret financial network” that included Ermira.
The interlocutor said that until 2015 the company belonged to a St. Petersburg lawyer named Vladislav Kopylov, but, in fact, purchases for Putin and his relatives were paid from Ermira’s accounts. He also bought apartments and houses with this money.
After that, they allegedly bought housing with that money from Ermira: in 2011, Kabaeva bought four apartments in Sochi and registered them with trusted people. In particular, to grandmother Kabaeva, who actually lives in an old rural house on the outskirts.
The journalists also found out that the Cypriot company also became rich from the circulation of NMG shares, of which Kabaeva is the chairman of the board of directors.
In addition, the Ukrainska Pravda report also says that they found out that Putin and Kabaeva live together. The gymnast’s assistants and cousins constantly visit Putin’s residence in Valdai, and one of the sisters even has a home nearby.
For Kabaeva and the children, a separate “wooden tower” was built on the territory of the residence in Valdai, the same separate house for her is next to her palace.
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