Media reported on the network of offshore companies in the $ 2 billion related to Putin’s entourage – Rosbalt.RU

 “Setting Putin” brought from Russia through a network of banks and shadow companies about $ 2 billion, according to the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ)

The report of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), which was published on April 3 approved by that people “out of the inner circle,” Russian President Vladimir Putin, was transferred through offshore companies at least $ 2 billion.

In his investigation of the journalists referred to the “unprecedented leak of millions of documents” from the database Mossack Fonseca, the fourth data the world’s largest offshore law firm. Approximately 11.5 million documents were obtained by German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and made available to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the Centre for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP). According to the authors of the investigation, the paper reveals the extent of the “shadow economy” in which the world’s leading politicians involved, businessmen and “celebrity”. Search and examination of documents more than a year engaged members of ICIJ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and dozens of other publications, RBC reports.

Although Putin’s name does not appear in any of the documents, the data show that the “Friends of the President” made millions It is approved in the investigation. Way offshore chain begins in Panama goes through Russia, Switzerland and ends in Cyprus, writes ICIJ.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that all comments on the document will later.

 Earlier, Reuters published an investigation of the Centre for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP), according to which Baevsky was a partner Igor and Arkady Rotenberg, and to sell or transfer the elite real estate to several women, including Katerina Tikhonova, which, as suggested by a number of media, can be daughter of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

 Note still March 28 Peskov warned of “naked zakazuha” under the guise of investigative journalism, which are being prepared for publication in Western media.