We are talking about Romy, of course — the dog belonging to Gennady “Gangrene” Timchenko, who, as we now know, is not just any dog, but a pedigreed one.
Gennady Timchenko misses her very much:
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t read these lines calmly. They are absolutely heart-rending. And surely everyone feels the same. Some especially so: those arrested and imprisoned in the “Bolotnaya case” (the criminal case over the 2012 Bolotnaya Square protest in Moscow), those under house arrest, political defendants under investigation, and those forced into political exile. They understand Gennady and his suffering better than anyone. All the more so because their situations are interconnected in every sense.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation has decided to accommodate everyone who sympathizes with Gennady Nikolaevich and Romy in their separation by publishing our findings on their real estate in Europe.
I think Gennady himself will also enjoy reading this post, because every photograph will remind him of the places where he frolicked happily with Romy — black, with a little white patch on her chest..
So, where has this ~~bitch~~ little dog been? An ACF exclusive.
From above, the Timchenko estate looks like this:
According to the land registry extract, plots 404 and 750 are registered to a company called Belize.
And the owner paid almost €8 million for them.
From the commercial register, we learn that Belize was established by two Finnish citizens — Ksenia Timchenko (25/09/1985) and Gennady Timchenko (09/11/1952) — while the director is Elena Timchenko (21/12/1955), née Ermakova. All three reside in Geneva.
Timchenko had a great deal to say about his daughter Ksenia (now Frank) in that same interview: “You have to raise them properly, give them a quality education, and after that they’re on their own. That’s how things are done in our family.”
It was she whom he “brought in,” at the age of 26, to the board of directors of Transoil. There she is responsible for strategy.
ACF’s marines invite everyone to take a stroll around the Timchenko family property on the French Riviera:
Our special forces even managed to peek inside. Such polite people!
The signs on the fence catch our attention:
Could we really be about to see that very Rublyovka resident from Koni’s first litter? (Rublyovka is Moscow’s elite suburban enclave; Koni was Vladimir Putin’s Labrador.)
A bust. No Labrador, no white patch on the chest.
Once again, we turn to the land registry extract for a splendid plot on the Côte d’Azur near the town of Le Lavandou.
Plot 166, according to the land registry extract, belongs to a company with tax number 518 256 664. Purchased for €3.2 million.
In 2012, the company with that number was acquired by a Monaco trust, and its director became Gangrene’s wife — Elena Ermakova of Geneva, already familiar to us from Saint-Raphaël.
And now, the photos.
In pursuit of the Labrador’s habitats, ACF moves on to France’s Atlantic coast and discovers yet another interesting patriotic asset there.
At 9 Avenue General Mac Croskey, 64200, Biarritz, there is a coastal plot marked on the cadastral map as AA22, with an area of 2,610 square meters.
On the plot, we found a rather respectable mansion overlooking the ocean:
The land is registered to SCI ATLANTIC.
Until 15 November 2012, SCI ATLANTIC belonged to the Timchenko family. Gennady Timchenko and Elena Timchenko (her maiden name, Ermakova, is listed) were the company’s co-founders and co-directors, but ownership was later transferred.
At first we were upset that such a splendid mansion had passed into чужие hands, but we quickly calmed down.
After November 2012, the company’s sole founder became the Monaco firm Alta Mira, and its sole director became Kirill Shamalov — the son of Nikolai Shamalov, a well-known member of the Ozero cooperative (a dacha cooperative linked to Putin’s inner circle) and the builder of Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik.
The current extract for SCI Atlantic from the commercial register.
Kirill, like Timchenko’s daughter Ksenia, is young and talented. At 23 he entered government service in the office of the Russian government, and at 26 he was appointed vice president for administrative business support at SIBUR.
We seem to have already mentioned one of SIBUR’s owners and board members.
In all the documents, Timchenko lists his address in Geneva. Apparently as his registered address.
This is what his street looks like (the address is listed there as well).
On the land registry website, we learn that the land does indeed belong to Monsieur Timchenko.
From the plan, you can see that the plot is within walking distance of Lake Geneva.
On Gangrene’s plot in Geneva there are two residential buildings with a total area of 411 square meters, plus some small non-residential premises. But UNDER the plot, things get much more interesting. According to the extract, Timchenko’s underground holdings amount to no less than 2,025 square meters, plus a 242-square-meter underground garage.
Judging by the size of the underground part of the house — more than two thousand square meters — there must be some suspicious catacombs down there. Yes, as we learned from an interview, there is an underground tennis court:
But clearly something else as well. Perhaps torture chambers, or chests full of Putin’s money (though 2,000 square meters would be too little for that).
Incidentally, this house was also written about by Vedomosti (though we found a different floor area).
The company extract is here.
This is what the entrance looks like.
1) As the extract shows, the company type is SCI — Société Civile Immobilière. This is a very specific type of French company created exclusively to own and manage real estate. Such a company cannot engage in trade, for example. On that basis, we conclude that the address listed in this extract is the address of their Paris apartment.
The apartment is located extremely close to Paris’s so-called “Golden Triangle,” near the Champs-Élysées. These are the most prestigious and expensive square meters in Paris — Golden triangle Paris. We don’t know how much this apartment costs, but it is VERY expensive.
Interestingly, Gangrene’s Paris apartment turned out to be the hardest of all to photograph. Security is ever-vigilant, and even our special forces proved powerless. But we will keep trying.
Well, that is all we have for now. We hope you found it interesting, and that the story of Gennady and Romy’s separation has become a little closer and clearer to you.
I would like to thank ACF’s investigations department and, of course, our ~~militiamen~~ volunteer field forces.
I deeply regret that the volunteer paratroopers did not allow us to publish their operation reports. The stories of the seaborne assault on a villa in Cannes or the launching of quadcopters are not just hilarious. They are like an action comedy. Maybe one day they will publish them themselves.
If you have any additional useful information about Gangrene’s property or secret dealings, you can send it completely anonymously here.
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