2023-06-21 04:09:20
Russia is waging a brutal war in Ukraine. Since the illegal occupation of Crimea in 2014, many oligarchs – especially close friends of Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin (70) – have been sanctioned by the West.
A new research by “ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project(OCCRP) and several international media sites.
Putin’s eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova (38) has apparently been going in and out of the posh Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel for years. The villa where the Russian resided belongs to an oligarch who has been sanctioned in the US and the EU since 2014!
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► According to “ Spiegel“ that the idyllic property can be traced back to Arkadi Rotenberg (71). He paid a whopping 10.8 million euros for it.
Arkady and his brother Boris Rotenberg (66) have known the Kremlin tyrant since they were children in St. Petersburg and are considered Putin’s closest confidants: They built his prestige project, the Crimean Bridge, and are considered top profiteers from corruption.
The oligarch Arkadi Rotenberg (71) has been close to Putin since childhood – and apparently bought a villa in Kitzbühel
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According to the Austrian “ StandardAccording to a neighbor of the villa, Maria was “often in the property at Oberleitenweg 31b in Kitzbühel. “Her husband, who is Dutch, was often there too.” Especially at the beginning of January, around the Orthodox Christmas, Maria is said to have been often in the house in Austria.
► During her visits she spoke “perfect German”. That fits, because Putin’s eldest daughter spent her early years with her dad in East Germany. The Kremlin tyrant was stationed there as an employee of the Soviet secret service, the KGB. When the family returned to Russia, Maria and her younger sister Katerina attended German-speaking schools.
Apparently lives temporarily in the Kitzbühel villa: Putin’s eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova (38)
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According to travel data, Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonowa (36) was also a guest in Kitzbühel
Photo: Pawel Dudzik
According to “Standard”, travel data from Putin’s younger daughter Katerina Tikhonowa (36) also shows that she has also stopped in Kitzbühel several times.
According to the Estonian news site “Delfi”, who was involved in the research with the OCCRP, neighbors of the Putin villa in Kitzbühel speak highly of the Russian guests: “They were probably the best neighbors one might wish for,” says one of the interlocutors regarding Maria. According to the “Standard”, it is not a secret in Kitzbühel who uses the villa.
And two neighbors testify that they have even seen Vladimir Putin in person. The despot is said to have traveled to the orthodox Christmas party.
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The Kitzbühel villa stands behind a metre-high spruce hedge. The view goes straight to what is perhaps the most famous downhill ski run in the world, the Streif.
Putin has loved the Alps for a long time. As early as the 1980s, while he was still a KGB agent in the GDR, he is said to have traveled to Austria to ski.
Vladimir Putin’s love for skiing is well known
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The Austrian intelligence service is investigating
According to “Standard”, the purchase or ownership of the Kitzbühel villa has been the subject of an investigation by the Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN) of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior since April 2022.
Objective: to find out the true ownership of the property.
► The suspicion that the property is owned by a sanctioned person has not been substantiated “to date”, despite “surveys at home and abroad,” it said.
In total, Austria froze almost two billion euros by the end of March in the context of sanctions due to the war in Ukraine. In addition, real estate in the low double-digit millions was also frozen.
The villa in Kitzbühel was not included.
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