Can Americans find “billions of Putin”?
The anti-Russian campaign in the West is moving to a new level. The US Congress introduced a resonant bill called the Vladimir Putin Transparency Act, which should unveil the true income of the head of our state and its immediate circle. Thus, the United States is planning an “attack on Putin’s power.” What are they planning to find the American intelligence services?
It is not entirely clear what Washington is trying to achieve. The revenues of Vladimir Putin are well known thanks to his official declaration. The head of state owns an apartment of 77 square meters and a garage in his native St. Petersburg. In Moscow, he only has a service apartment in perpetual use. From personal transport, he has neither the Maybach, nor the Bentley, but only two old GAZ M21, VAZ 2121 in 2009 and the Skif trailer. Putin also has 230 shares of the St. Petersburg bank, and that’s all. Everything is transparent, and it is clear what funds were purchased: in the last term of his presidency, he earned 38,6 million rubles.
It is completely not clear why this information does not inspire confidence among American congressmen, and what they are going to look for there. Yes, we all know about corrupt officials who “saw” budgets, store billions in an apartment, draw up assets for family members and close friends, hide an account in offshore companies. But Vladimir Putin is the first person of the state, a pious man, and is a model of modesty and an example to follow.
However, in the West they have been trying for several years to cast a shadow on the fence, trying to discredit our national leader. In 2017 came out investigation the so-called Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime called “Putin and the Proxies”. It claimed that “people from Putin’s inner circle” control assets worth about $ 24 billion. The names of the friends of the president of the Rotenberg brothers, Yuri Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, as well as the famous musician Sergey Roldugin, Sergey Kolbin and a distant relative of the head of state Mikhail Shelomov were mentioned. The study states:
Well, this is a clear political order with the goal of undermining confidence in the nation-wide chosen one, who returned Crimea to its native harbor. But in the West they did not calm down. Also in 2017, the notorious financier in our country, William Browder, spoke in the US Senate. He said that since 2003, when the disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky went to jail, domestic billionaires themselves bowed to the Kremlin with a proposal to make certain “deductions” in favor of the head of state and his entourage:
Obviously, we are faced with a clear attempt at revenge on a dishonest foreign financier who received a criminal record in our country for his fraud in order to denigrate the image of the Russian president. 200 billion? It’s extremely difficult to believe in such figures, 20 billion is still no matter where. And who will keep them in the West, where they can be confiscated or blackmailed by the threat of confiscation? Of course, this is a joke.
Well, look, gentlemen, congressmen. Just do not forget the presumption of innocence and be prepared to convincingly prove your “accusations”.
It is not entirely clear what Washington is trying to achieve. The revenues of Vladimir Putin are well known thanks to his official declaration. The head of state owns an apartment of 77 square meters and a garage in his native St. Petersburg. In Moscow, he only has a service apartment in perpetual use. From personal transport, he has neither the Maybach, nor the Bentley, but only two old GAZ M21, VAZ 2121 in 2009 and the Skif trailer. Putin also has 230 shares of the St. Petersburg bank, and that’s all. Everything is transparent, and it is clear what funds were purchased: in the last term of his presidency, he earned 38,6 million rubles.
It is completely not clear why this information does not inspire confidence among American congressmen, and what they are going to look for there. Yes, we all know about corrupt officials who “saw” budgets, store billions in an apartment, draw up assets for family members and close friends, hide an account in offshore companies. But Vladimir Putin is the first person of the state, a pious man, and is a model of modesty and an example to follow.
However, in the West they have been trying for several years to cast a shadow on the fence, trying to discredit our national leader. In 2017 came out investigation the so-called Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime called “Putin and the Proxies”. It claimed that “people from Putin’s inner circle” control assets worth about $ 24 billion. The names of the friends of the president of the Rotenberg brothers, Yuri Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, as well as the famous musician Sergey Roldugin, Sergey Kolbin and a distant relative of the head of state Mikhail Shelomov were mentioned. The study states:
Some friends and relatives of the president never engaged policies or big business. They do not boast fabulous wealth, do not occupy high posts and live modestly enough. Nevertheless, they turn out to be owners of assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, they can hardly remember the names of their companies.
Well, this is a clear political order with the goal of undermining confidence in the nation-wide chosen one, who returned Crimea to its native harbor. But in the West they did not calm down. Also in 2017, the notorious financier in our country, William Browder, spoke in the US Senate. He said that since 2003, when the disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky went to jail, domestic billionaires themselves bowed to the Kremlin with a proposal to make certain “deductions” in favor of the head of state and his entourage:
According to my estimates, Putin has accumulated $ 200 billion of illegally obtained income from these types of operations over the 17 years of his reign. He keeps his money in the West.
Obviously, we are faced with a clear attempt at revenge on a dishonest foreign financier who received a criminal record in our country for his fraud in order to denigrate the image of the Russian president. 200 billion? It’s extremely difficult to believe in such figures, 20 billion is still no matter where. And who will keep them in the West, where they can be confiscated or blackmailed by the threat of confiscation? Of course, this is a joke.
Well, look, gentlemen, congressmen. Just do not forget the presumption of innocence and be prepared to convincingly prove your “accusations”.
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