Telegram channel Compromising 2.0.: messages from 04.02.2023

Politico found Lyudmila Ocheretnaya’s European real estate, which she and her husband had amassed in about a decade since her marriage to the Russian president ended. The pair is not on the European Union’s sanctions list, but that could change quickly; after all, London has already put Ocheretnaya and her adult children under sanctions. Journalists of the publication discovered the Ocheretins’ apartment, located a 20-minute walk from the beach in Marbella, a resort town on the famous Spanish coast of the Costa del Sol. The apartment was worth about 1.1 million euros at the time of purchase in 2014, and real estate prices have only risen since then. The marriage to Putin may have ended in 2013, but aspects of the relationship, in particular, their financial component, remained. As part of her efforts to promote the Russian language, Ocheretnaya created a foundation called the Center for the Development of the Russian Language, which was later renamed the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications. In 2016, Russian media reported that she had married Ocheretny, its chairman. Their foundation purchased a former government building in the center of Moscow that once belonged to the grandfather of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Located a 5-minute walk from the Kremlin, the building now brings in millions of dollars in rent, which, according to a Reuters investigation, is paid to a company registered in her maiden name. The marriage of Ocheretny, not advertised by either side, occurred at a time when the couple’s real estate portfolio was expanding rapidly. The apartment that I was offered to visit in Marbella is one of two in the city that Ocheretny purchased shortly before the wedding. Ocheretny bought the first one in 2011 for about 800,000 euros, and the second one in 2014 for more than 1 million euros. The apartments remain in his ownership, according to the registration documents obtained by POLITICO. An apartment bought in 2014 could have another important advantage: since 2013, Spanish law has granted residence permits to those who invest at least €500,000 in Spanish property. These so-called golden visas offer unlimited travel access to the 27 EU Schengen countries and the right to eventually apply for permanent residence in Spain. When asked if Ocheretny had taken advantage of this scheme, the Spanish Interior Ministry sent questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which refused to “disclose personal information to third parties.” For a person to fall under EU sanctions, their name must be put forward by the national government and then approved by each EU country. Several EU diplomats told POLITICO they were not aware that any country had proposed sanctions against Ocheretny. There is no public evidence that Ocheretny obtained his wealth and possessions illegally, but their value appears to exceed his known sources of income. In 2015, around the same time he married Lyudmila, Arthur bought a luxury apartment in Davos, home of the annual World Economic Forum, which effectively banned Russian participation in response to the war in Ukraine. Advertised at the time of purchase for around 3 million euros, Ocheretny’s apartment is in an austere gray building just around the corner from a beautiful lake and is connected by underground tunnels to the towering AlpenGold Hotel, giving its residents access to the hotel’s swimming pool. and a separate storage room for ski equipment. One of the most notable additions to Ocheretny’s portfolio is an eccentric Art Deco villa dubbed Villa Souzanna, about 6 kilometers from the resort town of Biarritz. The Ocheretnye didn’t seem to spend much time in Biarritz, and when they did, they usually kept to themselves. Around 2018 or 2019, neighbors noticed the former first lady driving to the villa with her entourage in three black limousines with tinted windows, local resident Karla Junert said. According to Narratives Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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Boris Rotenberg received Finnish citizenship bypassing the rules Vladimir Putin’s friend Boris Rotenberg received Finnish citizenship without passing the check of the country’s security police (SUPO). This was reported by the Finnish news agency STT. The Finnish Migration Service did not contact the security police when it considered Rotenberg’s application. Another Putin friend with Finnish citizenship, Gennady Timchenko, also failed SUPO’s background check, Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported last May. Both Russians applied for Finnish citizenship in 1998. Timchenko received a Finnish passport in 1999, Rotenberg in 2003. Matti Saarelainen headed the Migration Service during the processing of applications. According to the Yle portal, after the announcement of Timchenko’s citizenship without a security check, SUPO began a check. Saarelainen is suspected of being able to facilitate the consideration of Timchenko’s application without verification. The official himself denies this. Earlier this year, he stepped down as head of the Center for Combating Hybrid Threats. In Finland, after the start of the war, they froze Russian assets in the amount of about 187 million euros. Including the assets of billionaires Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, the Långvik resort of Roman Rotenberg, son of Boris Rotenberg, and a stake in Helsinki Halli (also known as Hartwall Areena), 22.5% owned by Gennady Timchenko, were under arrest. According to the Kompromat 2.0 @kompr Agency
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A U.S. court has seized Konstantin Malofeev’s $5.4 million bank account for attempting to circumvent sanctions This is the first such decision since the U.S. Department of Justice created KleptoCapture, an inter-agency task force last spring, tasked with enforcing sanctions and export restrictions against Russia , as well as the fight against “corrupt Russian oligarchs.” Now the United States is transferring this money to Ukraine, since Malofeev is one of the lobbyists and beneficiaries of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is the first such case of the transfer of the arrested money of an oligarch from the Russian Federation to Ukraine, but, most likely, this practice will continue. Malofeev has been under sanctions since 2014. The US authorities suspect him of financing Russian citizens who sought the separation of Crimea from Ukraine. The billionaire himself denies all these accusations. Moreover, he threatens to sue his money from Google through a Russian court, but what is the connection between Google and the US government, Malofeev does not write. According to Version, BBC Kompromat 2.0 @kompr