Huge luxury palace on the Black Sea?
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accuses Russia's president of corruption on a grand scale.
Now Putin is responding to the allegations.
The
Putin critic Alexei Nawaly
was after his return to
Russia
detained.
Navalny posted a video with new corruption allegations against
Vladimir Putin
.
According to Navalny's research, Putin owns a huge luxury palace on the Black Sea.
Update from Monday, January 25th, 2021, 2:56 p.m.:
During an online question and
answer session
with students, Russian President
Vladimir Putin
apparently surprisingly
commented
on the corruption allegations by Kremlin critic
Alexej Navalny
.
About a week ago, on January 19, 2021, Navalny published a video on Youtube in which he
accused
Putin of the biggest
corruption scandal in
Russian history.
In the almost two-hour video, which has meanwhile been viewed more than 86 million times,
Alexej
Navalny
reconstructs
the ownership structure of a huge
luxury palace
on the Black Sea.
According to the Kremlin critic, this belongs to
Vladimir Putin
.
This has now personally rejected the allegations.
"None of what is listed here as my property belongs to me or my close relatives, and it never has," said Putin during the video conversation with students according to spiegel.de.
During the conversation,
Putin
is said to have said that he had
not yet seen
the
Navalny video
.
At the same time he is said to have called it "boring".
According to the President of Russia, the video is the result of "brainwashing".
Is that Putin's secret luxury palace?
"39 times as big as Monaco ..."
First report from Thursday, January 21st, 2021:
Moscow - The two-hour video by
Putin critic Alexej
Navalny
caused a sensation
in
Russia
.
The video went viral in no time and was viewed at least 22 million times in one day.
With the video,
Navalny
, who
was sentenced to 30 days in custody
after his return to
Russia
, is again making allegations of corruption against Russian President
Vladimir Putin
.
Navalny Putin accuses him of being a "tsar" who has lost all measure, enriches himself and makes his friends dependent servants by stealing public funds, with a view of the huge luxury palace on the Black Sea.
Navalny research: Putin's secret palace on the Black Sea
The video footage shows a
luxury palace of
unbelievable dimensions.
With an area of 7,800 hectares *, the property is around 39 times the size of Monaco.
Among other things, there should be its own winery, an oyster farm, a church, parks and a helipad, as well as a wellness area with saunas and massage area in Putin's alleged luxury property.
The Navalny team also posted pictures of Putin's alleged property on Facebook.
At the end of last year, rumors had surfaced that
Putin had
cancer *.
In addition,
Navalny describes
the property as "the most expensive palace in the world".
The luxury building is expected to cost around 1.3 billion euros (100 billion rubles) - according to research by Alexei Navalny, it was financed by bribes.
According to Navalny, the secret luxury palace is the biggest corruption scandal in Russian history.
+
The image from a YouTube video produced by Russian oppositionist Alexej Navalny shows a drone view of a property on the Black Sea coast.
© Navalny Life / dpa
He accuses
Putin of
abuse of office and evasion of public funds in
Russia
.
Using numerous documents shown for the first time, the video reconstructs the veiled ownership structure of the largest private estate in Russia.
According to Navalny research, the “most expensive palace in the world” belongs to Vladimir Putin
According to the research, "minor officials" from the presidential administration were registered as owners at times, reports the dpa.
Rumors have
been going around for months in
Russia
that
Putin
is staying on the Black Sea more often than in Moscow.
The spokesman for the Russian President, Dmitri Peskov, denied the allegations.
Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have nothing to do with the palace, said Peskov, who felt compelled to respond to the allegations.
Facts and figures on Putin's alleged luxury palace |
|
location |
Near the city of Gelendzhik on the Black Sea |
size |
17,500 square meters |
costs |
About 100 billion rubles (1.3 billion euros) |
At the end of the video,
Navalny
calls on
his supporters to protest next Saturday.
The video is believed to be Nawalny's reaction to his imprisonment.
(Sarah Neumeyer with dpa)
* hna.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
* At this point it was stated previously that the property has an area of 17,500 square meters.
Please excuse the mistake.
List of rubric lists: © Navalny Life / dpa
