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A Bombardier Global 5000 private jet, starting at $ 25 million, landed empty at Vilnius airport on Tuesday night, had just arrived with a crew from Moscow. The plane, which had been idle for about 3 hours, had already taken off from Vilnius with passengers.
“This plane, a private plane, arrived at Vilnius airport on January 5 at 8 pm 42 minutes, without passengers, only with crew, and left the same day, a few hours later, back to Moscow, with three passengers” . – says Tadas Vasiliauskas, representative of the Vilnius airport.
PHOTO GALLERY. In Vilnius, a plane owned by the wife of Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, what was he doing here?
Who is the owner of this plane, what was the purpose of the flight and who were the three passengers, the airport representatives cannot answer because they do not have that data.
Russian opponent Alexei Navaln believes that Svetlana Medvedeva, the wife of former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, is piloting the plane. Although the plane is said to belong to the offshore business of the VTB Bank of Russia, which is sanctioned in both Europe and the United States, Navaln says he has proof that Medvedev’s wife is flying:
“We still managed to find a sufficient number of frequent visits to Russia and abroad. And they all coincide with the relocation of a private VTB plane. Kemerov closed half the city due to the arrival of Medvedev. Israel, April 2016, Svetlana Medvedeva makes a pilgrimage “.
Aircraft observer Darius, who took a photo of Medvedev’s wife’s plane landing at Vilnius airport, says the plane was captured a few days ago at Farnborough airport in the UK, where private jets from oligarchs and politicians.
“The day before, he flew to the UK and then came back. He showed up in Vilnius the next day. His, there is such an airport in Farnboro, where only private planes land.” The Americans, the British themselves and many Russian oligarchs can go there, “says Darius, an aircraft observer.
A man who looks at the planes and photographs them says that he has seen that Vilnius airport is becoming a stopover for many oligarchs or pro-Kremlin politicians. To get, for example, to Ukraine, to which flights from Russia are prohibited, planes land at Vilnius airport, stay there for 10-15 minutes without even turning off the engines, and then depart from Lithuania to Ukraine.
“I had to see Abromovich’s new plane. There is a new story here, not the same as 20 years ago. I had to see the plane of Lukashenko’s friend Mikhail Guceryev, who has been here in Vilnius about 20 times. Clearly Prigožino, that Medvedeva plane. “Several pro-Kremlin oligarchs of Ukraine, like Medvechuk,” says Darius.
Representatives of the Defense and National Security Committee say that VTB Bank and all its related assets are subject to sanctions in the European Union and the Americas, but it is unclear whether the sanctions also apply to offshore companies. If the landing of this plane at Vilnius airport does not pose a threat to national security, but, according to Seimas member Laurynas Kasčiūnis, Lithuania should not be an owner for the implementation of international sanctions, as this weakens the sanctions themselves .
“There should be a clear record of which planes, with their numbers, could fly to Lithuania with numbers that could not land. Even more so if the objective is to land in Lithuania to prove that you are flying to Great Britain from Lithuania and not from Russia, where shields are prohibited. That is if it is a reality, then of course we will explain and look for those clear algorithms so that such things do not happen again, ”said Seimas member Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
If it is impossible for airspace managers’ radar planes to bypass and enter Lithuanian airspace without being noticed, but on commercial radar websites, where you can see where and when a plane took off and landed, we will not see all the airplanes. Aviation analysts say that celebrities, politicians or oligarchs often buy a service on websites to keep their flights out of sight. True, aviation lovers noted that they only saw one plane in the airspace belonging to Svetlana Medvedeva this year alone.
“At the same time on Twiterry, when one of the same aviation enthusiasts noticed that it was from the New Year that the plane began to appear in those commercial services. It’s as if it hadn’t been shown before, “says aviation analyst Simonas Bartkus.
According to the website of the online radar website, this plane was supposed to fly from Moscow to the UK, but the flight was bound for Vilnius, and from Vilnius it did not continue its journey to Britain, but instead flew back to Moscow .
Aviation analysts say the aircraft may have been diverted to Lithuania due to weather conditions or technical failures, or perhaps the passengers on the plane changed their minds and decided not to continue the journey and return to Moscow.
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