The Putin system is based on corruption.
A lot of research shows that.
The latest example concerns the Ukraine war.
Kiev/Moscow – There are numerous rumors surrounding the machinations in the Kremlin.
Many employees are accused of corruption and bribery, but there is little evidence of this.
A web of favors that Vladimir Putin's followers owe one another.
The president himself apparently ensures that this system flourishes.
In Putin's environment, prominent people such as Jewegeni Prigozhin, also known as "Putin's cook", or Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen ruler, can do their business.
The influence of the latter apparently extends to the war zone.
Kadyrov should in turn distribute assets in Ukraine to his followers.
According to a
BBC
report, it is specifically about shares in metal industry companies or in catering chains in the conquered city of Mariupol.
Before the Ukraine war, there were numerous jobs in steel manufacture in the port city.
The material could then be shipped from the city port.
Russia: Putin's elite enriches itself in the Ukraine war
According to the report, Valid Korchagin in particular will receive the shares mentioned.
The think tank Institute for the Study of War reports that Korchagin is related to senior members of the Chechen government.
These, in turn, are employees of the ruler Kadyrov.
There are also said to be family ties to Duma deputy Adam Delimhanov.
Ilya Schumanov, head of the NGO "Transparency International Russia" suspects that members of the Korchagin family should be rewarded for their combat missions in Russian troops through the allocation of shares to companies.
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The corruption in Russian institutions mentioned at the beginning is by no means new.
There are numerous reports on this.
Among other things, an international consortium consisting of around 600 journalists analyzed around twelve million documents from tax havens.
Secret documents, including those of Russian politicians, became public in this way.
The results were summarized in the “Pandora Papers”.
To this day, everyone involved denies any connection.
Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, once described the Pandora Papers as "unproven allegations."
Corruption in Putin's system: A dangerous endeavour
However, even the Russian President felt compelled to react to Alexei Navalny's research.
Navalny, one of the best-known Putin critics, published a video with his team that is supposed to show the president's magnificent palace, among other things.
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Vladimir Putin: The political career of the Russian head of state in pictures
At a student event, Putin denied everything: "I haven't watched this video, I just don't have enough time for it.
But I was flipping through video clips that my assistants brought me.
Nothing listed there as belonging to me belongs or has ever belonged to me or my close relatives.
Never."
The corrupt system is based on numerous tax havens and legal loopholes, as the "Pandora Papers" show.
This apparently makes Putin and Kremlin officials feel very safe - and not without reason: Many of the money flows may not be tracked and actually determined for decades.
In any case, there was no official reaction to the research by the international journalists' consortium.
The case of Navalny illustrates what happens to Putin's critics: the Putin opponent has been in a penal camp near Moscow for some time.
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