The $40 billion figure is a lie. Even Russia-hating Bloomberg columnist Bershidsky admits that.
Putin lives in an apartment in the Kremlin, by the way, where he is entitled to reside as President of Russia.
Putin’s press secretary wears a $600,000 watch but Putin lives like a pious monk? Do you have beach front property in Arizona for sale by chance?
You lie by omission here figuring nobody else knows here the facts. Fact is Putin has a pad outside Moscow (he was their during the recent unrest in Chechyna and had to rush back to Kremlin), a Dacha in Sochi and a $1 billion Black Sea palace of dubious provenance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace
Such ostentatious wealth has been tragically stolen from the Russian people by Putin and his stooges. Sad. Very sad. Even sadder that you are here lying about it.
As to “Putin’s Palace, “Kolesnikov has no documentary evidence the transactions were conducted on Mr. Putin’s behalf.â€
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69d1db86-1aa6-11e1-ae14-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3sZENQ547
And as the FT article makes clear, Kolesnikov has no first hand evidence implicating Putin, only hearsay.
Its also quite clear that, based upon Kolesnikov’s own admissions, he was involved in criminal activity, only later becoming “disillusioned,” and fleeing to the West to retail anti-Putin propaganda as a “whistleblower,” just like the big crooks Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky.
In any event, “Putin’s Palace” was sold in 2011.
To my understanding, the Sochi Dacha is an official retreat, just as Camp David is for the US President and Chequers for the British Prime Minister.