The Russian businessman, who married Vladimir Putin’s daughter, acquired an estimated 3 80,380 million (28 3,283 million) stake in a Russian petrochemicals company for just 100 100, according to an investigation by Russia’s Itaris investigation outlet.
The investigation, published in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), used leaked emails to shed new light on a closed circle of family and associates around the Russian president.
According to the investigation, Kirill Shamlov, the son of a longtime friend of Putin’s, bought a large stake in the parent company of Siber, a petrochemicals giant, through the Fashore company. The deal came just months after Vijnani and university official Katarina Tikhonova, who is widely known to be Putin’s youngest daughter.
“It’s easy,” wrote Alexei Navalny, an anti-politician and anti-corruption activist. “Putin’s daughter is getting married and the newlyweds have received a current of 80 380 million.”
The pair were also reported to have spent millions of dollars buying and equipping elite real estate near Putin’s residence in Russia and in Bearetz, France, with about 50,000 car rugs and, 5,700 worth of Japanese books purchased. It was a life of luxury that, like Putin’s daughters, is completely hidden from public view.
The investigation also uncovered emails provided to reporters by an unknown source (possibly hacked, they noted), an ascending circle of young power-players in St. Petersburg, usually Putin’s children and grandchildren and his friends and colleagues. In government.
The Guardian has contacted Shamlov’s company, Ladoga Management, for comment. A representative took the reporter’s contact information, but would not answer specific questions. Shamlov estimated the value of Siber at સિ 10bn in an interview with Commerce, bringing his stock to $ 380m, according to his valuation.
In an emailed comment, Sibur’s representative confirmed to the Guardian that Shamlov had acquired shares in the company under a stock-option scheme for managers, but did not confirm the price. In a statement, Dmitry Conowe, head of the company’s board of directors, said: “The conditions for the sale of shares in the deal were not different from those of many other managers. There were no special conditions for Shamlov. ”
“The company is ready to document these circumstances with the engagement of independent experts [from outside the company,]”Said a company statement.
The leaked emails, some of which Istories and the OCCRP said they checked with Shamlov’s interlocutors, are a rare, documentary look at how people in Putin’s circle manage to acquire bizarre assets. Several companies, including telecommunications and developers, tried to bring Shamlov as an investor after Tikhonova after her marriage.
Several Russian outlets have recently been published looking at the family of the Russian leader and his romantic life. Another article earlier this month suggested that Putin gave birth to a daughter with a woman who was later named a shareholder in one of Russia’s most important banks, making the former cleaner an overnight millionaire.
Another revealed that rumors of Putin being his girlfriend had made the former Olympic gymnast receive an annual salary of 7. 7.7m as head of a pro-Kremlin media group.
In all cases, the Kremlin has demanded that the bad press be pushed aside.
Asked about the articles Monday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We still refrain from commenting on such publications. “These rumors often have nothing to do with reality.”
