The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia found a palace in London

Foundation for the fight against corruption, which is headed by Alexei Navalny, published investigation results in relation to the vice-premier of the Russian government Igor Shuvalov, who has discovered luxury real estate in London.

As Navalny reports in his blog, the high-ranking official “pays 688 million rubles for his London apartment,” including 77 million rubles in taxes on the deal, “which is eight times more than Shuvalov’s annual income in the civil service.”

“Almost five hundred square meters of space, six bedrooms, a dining room with two fireplaces, a living room with a grand piano and views of the Thames. For more than ten years, Shuvalov hid his apartment behind anonymous offshore companies, and now behind a Russian company. (...) He misled the Russian and British tax services, hired lawyers who managed this asset, and created blind trusts,” writes the head of FBK.

According to the opposition politician, this apartment has been recorded for several offshore companies since 2003: first, at Central Cove Ltd, which was managed by lawyer Shuvalov Alastair Tulloch, then Trident Trust became the owner. But in the end, the First Deputy Prime Minister rewrote it to the Russian company SOVA REAL ESTATE, which belongs to him and his wife Olga Shuvalov. The cost of the apartment is estimated at 11,4 million pounds.

“That is, he is one of those representatives of the Kremlin thugs who invents and promotes all this lying and hypocritical nonsense about the fact that “citizens must rip off their last shirt for the party and the government,” Navalny sums up.

Earlier, Shuvalov urged Russians to rally around Vladimir Putin and tighten their belts.

“If a Russian feels any pressure from outside, he will never give up his leader. Never. And it will withstand any hardships that will happen within the country - consume less food, less electricity (...) But if we feel that someone from the outside wants to change our leader and this is not our will (...) we will simply be united as never before,” - said a government official.