This week heWar between Ukraine and Russia jumped again To Alina Kabaevaformer olympic gymnast and lover Vladimir Putin. Kabaeva is one of more than 2,500 Russian figures sanctioned by Russia. Kyiv, a measure announced last Thursday, Thursday. The list includes the daughters of the President of Russia. Katerina Tikhonova Y Maria Putina.
keep in a safe place
Since the beginning of the invasion The whereabouts of the ex-gymnast is unknown, but despite the attempts of the Russian president to wipe out all kinds of information, it turned out what he is. A dossier on the machinations of the almighty Putin with his girlfriend.
The relationship between the president and the former gymnast began 20 years ago. when she was just 17 years old and a regular on rhythmic gymnastics podiums. One of the most popular gymnasts for her quality, grace, and beauty as an athlete, Kabaeva led her to star on the cover of a magazine, where she posed half-naked. In October 2004, she announced that she was quitting the sport. after being affected by a doping scandal.
After the invasion of Ukraine and the US sanctions, Putin A strong decision in everything related to Kabaeva While staying private and secure outside of Russia.
classified information
all information About the holding company National Media GroupLed by Putin’s Olympic mistress, Alina Kabaeva, has disappeared from open databases. According to the Telegram channel, The record was cleared after Kabaeva was sanctioned. Authorities deleted the financial statements of other Russian internet companies. It is reported that the financial documents of all legal entities have been removed from the All-Russian accounting register (GIR BO).
Despite this, an investigation has managed to connect the dots through documents and confidants of all the machines Putin planted to protect his lover. The file is just destructive.
this Kabaeva’s rise is as rapid as it is questionable. In October 2004, Alina announced her retirement from the sport after being tainted by a doping scandal.
it didn’t take long until He jumped into politics as a deputy of the official United Russia party, where he spent six years in the Duma. However, his announcement in 2014 that he would leave his post caused even greater surprise. Steering the board of the National Media Group (NMG). To give him a spot at the top, they displaced Kirill Kovalchuk, the nephew of Yuri Kovalchuk, the man behind NMG, the main shareholder of Rossiya Bank and one of Putin’s closest advisers.
Former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva has never publicly disclosed her affair with Vladimir Putin, but what has been proven is that over the past 15 years, she has received plenty of gifts and all kinds of millionaire support from the president’s inner circle.
The Wall Street Journal cited sources claiming that Kabaeva has “at least three” children with Putin. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kabaeva came under Western sanctions for the same reason believed to be Putin’s wife. Now, research project file by Mikhail Khodorkovsky provides relevant information about Kabaeva’s curious biography, her astonishing rise and the generosity generously given to Kabaeva by Putin’s circle of power.
Real estate
HE Kabaeva and her family bought real estate from Putin’s friends, something the media has repeatedly reported. Putin’s childhood friend, Peter Kolbin, gave Kabaeva’s grandmother, Anna Zatsepilina, not one, but two apartments on Moscow’s legendary Arbat Street. Gennady Timchenko, who has known Putin since the 1990s and is considered one of his “human wallets”, gave him a St. He gave an apartment in St. Petersburg. Grigory Bayevsky (“real estate agent for Putin’s friends” and Arkady Rotenberg’s partner) gave him a plot in the coveted Rublevka district and an apartment in Moscow. The dossier explains that all these real estate deals are Putin’s gifts offered by different proxies.
Referring to official data of Rosreestr, the investigation revealed that Kabaeva, her grandmother, mother and sister Moscow and St. They own a total of ten apartments in St. Petersburg, as well as land and cottages in the Moscow region and Sochi. The file estimates the total market value of this property to be more than 2.5 billion rubles, or $39 million.
A mansion and Scheherazade in Switzerland
Kabaeva also has access to assets that are officially owned by other people. For example, it was known last April that, The former athlete hid in a villa with a helipad in the municipality of Cologne on Lake Geneva.. Historic mansions in the area are usually worth between €80 million and €90 million, but the helipad is the only one in all of Cologne. Its location is close to the large house owned by Gennady Timchenko, in the historical property called Villa Hauterive. Part of Villa Hauterive went on sale for $75.5 million (€77 million) in the spring of 2022.
When contacted by Dossier, the real estate agent who made the sale confirmed that the property is a helipad. According to the tracking service On ADS-B Exchange flights, five private helicopters have landed on or near the site since 2016. four of them They were associated with Swift Copters, a company serving customers from Russia. A source who knew Kabaeva personally told the publication that the former Olympic gymnast received a helicopter “literally to Timchenko’s doorstep.”
In addition to Timchenko’s Swiss villa, Kabaeva may have used Scheherazade, the yacht given to Putin by a group of Russian businessmen, also led by Timchenko. According to another File investigation, at the end of 2020, Kabaeva arrived in Milan at the same time as members of the Federal Guard Service, who, according to Alexey Navalny’s investigative team, were part of the Scheherazade team. After Russia invaded Ukraine, the Italian government confiscated the luxury yacht.
Nearly 300 million credits to buy a television channel
since 2014, Kabaeva heads the board of directors of the holding company of the National Media Group (NMG). NMG owns shares in Channel One, the Russian version of Discovery, as well as the REN television channel and the newspaper Izvestia. In 2018, NMG, together with VTB bank, bought the STS TV channel for 18 billion rubles (or about 286 million euros). The bank later sold its stake in the channel to the media holding company.
“File” He points out that neither VTB nor NMG spent their own money on this deal: they were both using loans. One of the lenders was STS itself; the other was an individual, a certain “V. Colbin”. The day before the signing of the purchase and sale agreement, Kolbin made a loan of 12.3 billion rubles at an annual interest of 16 percent to VTB and the National Media Group. The lender is none other than Vladimir Petrovich Kolbin, son of Putin’s old friend, Peter Kolbin. When Peter Kolbin died in early 2018, the “business” was inherited by his son. By then, Kolbin, Jr. had worked in law enforcement and security.
In 2018, Vladimir Kolbin acted as proxy in a transaction with shares of Sogaz, Russia’s largest insurance company. First, he bought the securities of the company owned by Timchenko’s daughter for 23 billion rubles. Then he sold them to Sogaz for 55 billion rubles. A short time later, Kolbin Jr. made a loan of 12.3 billion rubles to the National Media Group for the acquisition of STS.
How did Kabaeva become a media manager?
A source close to the Russian President’s office confirmed the matter. “What to do with Kabeva” It arrived around 2007. This led to the creation of the National Media Group in 2008, and Kabaeva was instantly appointed to the advisory council. At that time, Kabaeva also held a seat in the State Duma, but in her seven years of service she collaborated on only five bills. She left the Duma in 2014 to become chairman of the NMG board of directors.
But Kabaeva rarely comments on the holding company’s business, and according to the investigation, the position seems straightforward. “A cover that provides a solid income and it leaves a lot of time for him to devote to charity, sports and children.” In 2018, the former athlete’s official income at NMG was 785 million rubles (almost 13 million euros).
38-year-old Alina Kabaeva is a legend in Russia. The 2004 Olympic champion is one of the most decorated athletes in the history of rhythmic gymnastics.
aline He made his international debut in 1996. He won a surprising victory at the European Championships in 1998 at the age of 15.It was held in Portugal as the youngest of the team with famous stars like Amina Zaripova. She became the European champion for the second time in a row in 1999 and won the world title in Osaka, Japan. In 2003 she won five more European titles and one more world title in Budapest, Hungary.
On his second tackle at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the hoop fell and he had to go outside the practice area to look for it. She finished the final with a bronze medal with 39,466 (rope 9.925, hoop 9.641, ball 9.950, ribbon 9.950). At the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won gold in ball, stick and string, and silver in the individual and hoop events. But his victory was tarnished. Alina and her teammate Irina Cháshchina tested positive for a banned diuretic (furosemide) and were stripped of their medals.
Inside He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In October of the same year, Alina announced that she was leaving the sport.
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