Not surprising considering his taste for grandiose, neoclassical architecture.Īnd to keep his options open by land, air, or sea, he also has a $100-million-dollar megayacht designed by a nuclear submarine maker from the Russian navy. Aircraft, helicopters, and carsĪpart from the Black Sea Mansion and 19 other houses and 700 cars, Putin supposedly has a collection of 58 aircraft and helicopters including a $716 million dollar plane called “The Flying Kremlin” that has a toilet made of gold. But Russian analysts call it a blatant lie, saying that no businessman can have properties guarded by the FSB (Russia’s federal security service) with a no-fly zone over it. The Kremlin denies Putin’s ownership of the palace saying it belongs to a wealthy businessman. Moscow Times reports that Shamalov, Gorelov, and Cirillo denied all allegations. Then the Belize account transferred approximately $48 million to an account controlled by Medea Investment- a company controlled by Cirillo himself. Records show that the two men sent around $56 million to Swiss bank accounts of a Belize company. According to a Reuters investigation, the money for this extravagant project was supposedly laundered through the country’s 1.3-trillion-ruble national project called “Health” in which the state bought expensive medical equipment from a company owned by Putin’s friends Shamalov and Gorelov at a much higher rate than the market price. The Black Sea Mansion was designed by Italian architect Lanfranco Cirillo and cost $1.4 billion to construct.
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