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"Mikhal Ivanych" - so Putin's name is the members of the "inner circle"

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People from the so-called “inner circle” of Russian President Vladimir Putin call him "Mikhail Ivanovich" by pseudonym. The former head of the shipping company Sovcomflot Dmitry Skarga spoke about this in a documentary Bi-bi-si "Putin's Secret Wealth", which aired on January 25.

The term "inner circle" is used to refer to Russian officials and businessmen who are particularly close to Vladimir Putin. Among other things, these are those who, together with Putin, founded the Ozero dacha cooperative in the Leningrad region in the 90s - ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, chairman of the board of directors of Rossiya Bank Yuri Kovalchuk and others.

Dmitry Skarga, who lives in London, also told a British television channel that in March 2002 he oversaw the transfer of the Olympia yacht to Putin from Roman Abramovich, worth $45 million. According to Skarga, the yacht was transferred to Putin through an offshore company, but its real owner was the Russian president personally.

“The current expenses for the yacht were paid from the Russian budget,” the BBC source said.

Frequent guest of the yacht was, in particular, Putin’s friend Gennady Timchenko, who owned the oil trader Gunvor until 2014. The film says that Putin allegedly had investments in this company. However, Timchenko’s lawyers categorically deny such accusations, calling them propaganda.

The BBC film accuses the Russian president of allegedly using his power to amass a secret fortune. According to the film's authors, Vladimir Putin is the richest man in Europe and one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of $40 billion. By indicating this figure, they refer to a certain secret CIA report.

In addition, the official representative of the US Treasury Department, Adam Shubin, who is responsible for sanctions against Russia, said in the film that the American authorities have long known about “Putin’s involvement in corruption.” According to him, Putin’s official salary is about 110 thousand dollars a year, but this is “far from the main” part of the president’s income.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, as reported TV channel "Rain", called the information in the BBC film pure fiction.

The Kremlin is confident that the US Treasury Department must provide evidence of the allegations of corruption put forward against Russian President Vladimir Putin. These accusations themselves, having all the hallmarks of a directing campaign, are nothing but fiction and slander, says press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

Answering a question about Moscow’s reaction, Peskov emphasized that “it is not our task to demand evidence.” Now it is the task of this department to present some evidence and show that the statements of the official representative are not unfounded slander,” concluded the presidential press secretary.

In Peskov’s opinion, the presence in the BBC film of an official commentary from a representative of the US Treasury “indicates who is at the conductor’s stand.”

Implications for relations between Moscow and Washington

At the same time, the Kremlin is not inclined to connect accusations of corruption against the Russian president with the fact that at the end of this year presidential elections will take place in the United States and the current American administration will leave the White House. “We wouldn’t want to associate anything with anything; We note the appearance of this (official) comment (from the US Treasury),” Peskov said.

“Everything would be like an irresponsible exercise in journalism if it weren’t for the official comment,” he added. At the same time, the Kremlin does not expect that this episode will worsen the already strained relations between Moscow and Washington. “To be honest, the relationship is not in the best shape right now. In such a form that such a lie is unlikely to complicate them further,” the news agency quoted Peskov as saying. TASS.

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