Secret villa of Putin’s family in Austria and other findings from the Rotenberg Files

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Putin and his associates try to convince Russians that they are not afraid of the Western sanctions. Sure they aren’t! Because they have attorneys who are always ready to cover them. Such people are called front men in the Kremlin community. They handle financial and personal matters of their patrons so that no one would find out on whose behalf the things are done.
Important Stories have come into possession of a massive leak of 50 thousand documents, which shed light on how Vladimir Putin’s closest friends - Arkady and Boris Rotenberg - managed to retain, hide and build up their assets in the West even after they had been sanctioned in 2014.
More than 60 journalists from the world’s 15 leading media have been working with us on this project that we called the Rotenberg Files. Owing to this leak, we have identified the key front man of Putin’s close associates, as well as:
🔵 How a former advisor to the Russian Minister of Defense was simultaneously doing business with Putin’s oligarchs and members of the British royal family:
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🔵 How Arkady Rotenberg’s foreign entities granted millions of euros to the company that purchased an alpine chalet where Putin’s eldest daughter used to spend holidays with her sweetheart
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🔵 How the Rotenbergs were hiding assets behind their darlings, citizens of the US and Latvia
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🔵 The story of another front man of the Rotenbergs, who concealed from a German court the fact that Moscow’s largest developer was linked to Putin’s friends.
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We thank Henri-Kristian Kirsip from Delfi Estonia for the provided footage from Kitzbühel
Illustrations: David Istvan
🔵 Important note
❗️At 08:44 and 11:39, the illustrations show the 65m/213′3″ yacht Rahil, while there should be pictures of at least as beautiful 48m/157′6″ yacht Rahil, which you can look at here: www.marinetraffic.com/en/phot...
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🔵 Time codes:
00:00 Massive leak from the front man of Putin’s associates
01:31 Alpine villa for Putin’s daughter and her sweetheart
03:40 From hating Bandera to loving collectible violins
05:14 Arkady and Boris Rotenberg - Putin’s friends and the kings of government contracts
07:16 How oligarchs tried to hide their assets from sanctions
09:31 How Karina Rotenberg was furnishing her villa in Spain
11:28 Boris Rotenberg’s failed attempt of tax evasion in Monaco
12:31 Why Maxim Viktorov needed connections in the West and with the British royal family
13:50 Imperialist rhetoric and support for Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine