Amazing luxury: Navaln study reveals where Putin planned to live after retirement

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), founded by Russian opponent Alexei Navaln, has published a study on the so-called Vladimir Putin Palace near the Gelendzhik spa.

The nearly two-hour long documentary was released the day after Khimki City Court Judge Jelena Morozova sentenced Navaln to thirty days in prison. As soon as he managed to return to Russia from Germany, the opposition was arrested and detained.

“Navalnas has been fighting for our rights for many years. Now is the time for us to fight for it,” the text begins a research record distributed on the YouTube platform, which already reaches almost 16 million points of view.

People are invited to start posting on January 23. take to the streets for mass protests and “not be marginalized.”

At the beginning of the film, the opposition reveals that the idea for the study was born while he was still being treated in the intensive care unit of the German Charite Clinic.

“We decided to make the investigation public only after I had returned to Russia, so that the protagonist of the film would not think that we were afraid of him and that is why I tell him his biggest secret abroad,” emphasized Navalnas, currently in prison.

Putin’s Palace

“It is the most protected area of ​​Russia, indeed the state within a state, and V. Putin’s greatest secret.” This secret is protected by hundreds, even thousands of people, from unknown security guards, gardeners and builders to the richest and most famous people in Russia, “said the scandalous study.

The so-called Putin Palace, also known as the residence at Cape Idocopus, was built between 2005 and 2010 on the Black Sea coast near Gelenžik. About the fact that the residence was built for the president of Russia, in 2010. announced the businessman Sergei Kolesnikov. He also estimated the potential cost of the project at $ 1 billion.

R. Navalnas equates Putin’s Palace with a mini-state: there is a private port, a church, a border crossing, and entire districts to accommodate service personnel. All of this is hidden behind a giant fence.

The opponent emphasizes that the territory of Putin’s palace is equal to the area of ​​39 Dukes of Monaco.

The territory of the palace is not only 17,691 square meters m house, it is 7,800 hectares of land, 300 hectares of vineyards, oyster beds, wineries and endless luxury.

The territory of the palace is not only 17,691 square meters m house, it is 7,800 hectares of land, 300 hectares of vineyards, oyster beds, wineries and endless luxury.

The territory is equipped with an arboretum, greenhouse, church, two heliports, underground hockey field, own power plant and communication fields, staff dormitory, 2500 m2. m guest house, unfinished amphitheater plaza.

Corruption lagoon

According to A. Navalnas, the financing scheme for the construction of the palace is very confusing. The owners of the object changed many times, the transactions were carried out through offshore companies. The construction work was also officially broken down into several contractors.

According to the study, the construction of this palace began when Putin first thought about the fact that the presidency would not last forever and began looking for a place to rest quietly.

2005 Construction, which started as a children’s holiday camp, would be carried out by the Lirus company, whose shareholders were Putin’s future father-in-law Nikolai Shamalov, former KGB colonel Dmitry Gorelov and businessman Sergei Kolesnikov. The latter told A. Navalns about V. Putin’s plans to stay in a “little house on the shores of the Black Sea” after leaving the well-deserved rest.

2010 Kalesnikov wrote an open letter to then-Russian President Medvedev asking him to suspend construction of Putin’s palace.

According to S. Kalesnikov, in 2000 N. Shamalov contacted the company “Petromed” and offered, through the mediation of V. Putin, to profitably finance some large projects of the Russian health system. In exchange for 35 percent. the company’s turnover was transferred to the specified foreign accounts. His words were later confirmed by documents published by the Panama Papers.

In the event of a scandal, there was a rush to create the illusion that the palace had changed ownership: it was allegedly bought from N. Shamalov by a businessman and also by Alexander Ponomarenka, a man close to Putin.

Now the main administrator of the palace is the Akcept company, which belongs to V. Putin’s second-degree cousin, Mikhail Shelomov.

According to A. Navaln, all the expenses of the mansion attributed to Putin are covered by the old comrades in arms of the Russian president: the head of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev, the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, the oligarchs Yuri Kovalchuk and Gennady Timchenko.

Impressive interiors

The construction of the palace is called by A. Navalnas “the biggest bribe in history”: the object cost around 100 billion. rubles – about a billion. 120 million euros.

It is said that everyone visiting here is strictly prohibited from having even the simplest mobile phones that can take pictures, and all arrivals are checked at various checkpoints.

In addition to the main palace, the closed area includes a covered ice palace, a church, 2.5 thousand. kv. Large meter greenhouse, 80 meter long bridge and amphitheater.

According to A. Navalnas, one of the contractors sent him a detailed interior plan of the castle, which even includes furniture, outraged by the excess of luxury.

The entire complex covers 68 hectares, but another 7 thousand. hectares are under the control of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the entire area is also closed.

The investigation indicates that the FSB does not even allow fishing near the promontory on which the palace is located, and flights over the area are prohibited.

Inside the main building there is a swimming pool, spa, hairdresser, many different saunas and even a disco, casino, theater.

A. Navalnas posted photos from inside the palace, which he claimed were taken by the workers who carried out the repairs there. According to them and the detailed plan of the palace, A. Navaln’s team was responsible for making three-dimensional visualizations, which would allow a closer view of Putin’s palace.

There is a wine cellar, a gym, a reading room, a music room and even the most authentic theater. Among the furniture stands out a sofa, which in the catalogs is valued at 2 million. rubles (about 22 thousand euros) and table double expensive.

The palace also has a library with white walls and gold decorations, a room with a stage and a bright red curtain, which A. Navaln calls the president’s “home theater.”

S. Kalesnikov, who contributed to the construction of the palace, confirms that a personal casino was designed in the building from scratch.

The palace also has a windowless hookah room, but with a small stage, in the center of which is the usual bar in strip clubs.

According to the construction plans, the size of the bedroom is only 260 square meters. meters.

Luxury vineyards

5244 square meters. m Winery, which is supplied by several vineyards located around it.

There is also a small residence occupying an area of ​​2389 square meters, a spa complex of 3200 square meters.

Several wineries are being built in the countries to produce the state-owned Usadba Divnomorskoye Sira wine, which the Russian president likes to serve to famous guests at parties.

The total area covered by vineyards and new distilleries is 530 hectares. Its interior is also a surprising luxury: Navalnas researchers managed to discover that the area of ​​the winery under construction in Krinica occupies 13,762 square meters. m of area, and its interior is decorated with incredible elements of luxury – 30 thousand. vase worth 35.3 thousand euros. Sifted sofa in euros or more than 48 thousand. euro coffee table.

A. Navalnas paid attention to the details: a toilet brush and a roll holder for more than 1,000 euros, which cost more than 700 euros. This is more than the annual pension that an ordinary Russian elder receives.

According to A. Navaln, the entire complex of palaces created for V. Putin is worth around 100 billion rubles (1.12 billion euros).