Posted on 08/30/2023 7:08:33 AM PDT by Cronos
Vladimir Putin moved his $100m (£75m) superyacht from a German shipyard to Russia just weeks before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, according to secret documents released in a new investigation.
A Russian anti-corruption organisation set up by the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims emails show that the Russian president ordered the urgent moving of the 82-metre superyacht, called Graceful, from a shipyard in Hamburg, where it was undergoing a $32m refit, by 1 February 2022.
Photos show the ship being towed out of Hamburg on 7 February en route to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, after the shipyard missed the 1 February deadline.
Just 15 days later – on 22 February – Putin ordered the full-blown invasion of Ukraine. After the invasion, the US, UK and EU imposed sanctions on Russian-owned assets overseas, and dozens of oligarch-owned superyachts were seized across the world.
The emails are disclosed in a report by Russian investigative journalist Maria Pevchikh, who leads an anti-corruption foundation set up by Navalny.
“Half of the country is forced to raise money for underwear and socks for mobilised soldiers, and to make trench candles, while the person who unleashed this war spends 3bn roubles just on repairs and purchases for his yacht,”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Nice looking yacht Putin owns -- one of 3 in his stable.
Putin had been a good communist, yet lives a life of luxury?
It would be a shame if anything happened to Putin’s pretty toy that he bought with money stolen from the Russian people.
Maybe Ukraine can spare a few hundred dollars worth of drones to destroy Putin’s superyachts? Maybe they can zot his palace on the Black Sea while they’re at it!
He decided the Tsardom was better :)
Rather than complain about Putin, why aren’t you fighting him? You live in Poland and you claim to be a car ride away from the front and the battlefield.
Smart to move it.
Did he get these yet through corruption? Most likely. Did he get it through us taxpayers? Probably not
The boat isn’t listed in Putin’s official list of assets.
“Putin’s official financial disclosure, released annually by the Kremlin, lists his 2020 income at about $140,000. The only assets he claims: ownership of three cars, a trailer, an 800-square-foot apartment and a 200-square-foot garage, plus the use of a 1,600 square-foot apartment and two parking spaces.”
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q4sYvsbVciYJ:https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2022/01/27/as-biden-mulls-sanctions-three-theories—on-how-putin-makes-his-millions/&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Wait, wait! I thought that one of the justifications for supporting Russia’s invasion was that he was fighting the Ukrainian corruption.
Man of the Russian people, obviously.
Seems VERY SMART of Putin to move his boat when he did.
Apparently our CIA was taken by surprise of this "invasion" and the timing. One would think they could add two plus two, but they are too busy spying on Trump.
Wouldn’t you have moved it if it was your yacht? Duh.
Zelenskyy has gotten very rich off of our US taxpayers during this war.
So, maybe, just maybe, it's Deep State, the Biden regime and Brits that are lying about Putin.
Regardless, the standard of living of the average Russian has increased dramatically under his watch because he cleaned up the corruption in Russia that occurring in the 1990s. So, the Russian people are quite satisfied with his job performance.
So? He’s not stupid.
Zelinsky prefers Villas over yachts...........His villas are paid by American tax dollars, Not Russian oil bribes like Putin. SEE the difference. Both corrupt, But WE pay for Zelinsky’s corruption.
Why don’t you go and fight for him? Haven’t you got your recruitment call up yet?
Or are those in St. Petersburg exempt?
Any proof of that?
Putin robbed Russia of billions. He’s been disastrous for Russia
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