The original post was published on 18 February 2014 at navalny.livejournal.com
The biography of Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s son clearly tells us that this man has devoted his life to serving the Motherland.
Born into Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s family, earned a doctorate, spent his whole life working in the State Duma on the public payroll, and then the “awards” section begins right away. Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev has nine of them, including the medal “For Strengthening Combat Brotherhood”.
Igor Vladimirovich is known to us as a patriot. And how could it be otherwise now, when the country is in danger? Foreigners think of nothing but how to chip away at Russian sovereignty, but they always meet resistance from both Lebedev and his father, Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
The LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) was the driving force behind all the most hellish laws that were passed; for such many years of active work fighting the “fifth column”, Igor Vladimirovich was rewarded with nothing but his official salary and a medal.
And hooray, no injustice occurred. ~~The Kremlin~~ The Motherland generously ~~supplies~~ refreshes ~~its lackeys~~ its faithful sons with ~~off-the-books cash~~ birch sap.
We would never have learned anything from Zhirinovsky’s son himself—he is a modest and shy man: he even cursed and made a scene rather than publish his disclosure statement. But a database from one of Dubai’s real estate agencies that “leaked” online (yesterday, data from this same leak exposed, incidentally, a crooked United Russia party member) gives us a chance to see the real level of wealth of this prominent patriot and fighter against all things foreign:
document (copy on Google Drive) So, in 2009, Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s son, State Duma deputy Igor Lebedev, bought an apartment in Dubai measuring 442 square meters (4,760 sq. ft.) for 86.765 million rubles (9,045,234 dirhams). Here is the Botanica tower where the apartment is located:
Botanica Tower is an impressive 36-floor development located in Dubai Marina. It is ideally situated between the waterfront and the marina. It offers views of every aspect of Dubai, including Dubai Marina, the Arabian Gulf, and the famous man-made islands, Palm Jumeirah. Botanica effectively brings together the glamour, luxury, and relaxation associated with Dubai, but with an added twist that certainly sets it apart from every other development in Dubai Marina. http://www.providentestate.com/Dubai-Real-Estate-Projects/Dubai-Marina/Botanica-Tower-445.html My rough translation: The 36-story Botanica tower is ideally located between the waterfront and Dubai Marina. It offers excellent views of the city, the marina, the Arabian Gulf, and the famous artificial island Palm Jumeirah. It effectively combines glamour, luxury, and comfort—the kind a Russian State Duma deputy can indulge in immediately after voting for laws on fighting “foreign agents” and censoring the internet.
View from satellite
The apartment is enormous—440 square meters. Five bedrooms and seven (!!!!) toilets. A jacuzzi on the balcony.
Here are the details of a completely identical apartment being rented out by the same agency the leak came from. The payments were made in installments, and the apartment was fully paid off in October 2012.
OF COURSE, Lebedev’s disclosure contains nothing even remotely resembling either this apartment or the income needed to pay for it.
http://declarator.org/person/94/ The documents include Lebedev’s international passport.
http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/131298/
That’s what public service in the LDPR faction turns out to be like—quite lucrative.
Today, the Anti-Corruption Foundation is officially appealing to all competent authorities, demanding an investigation and official recognition of the fact that Zhirinovsky’s son, Lebedev, lies in his disclosure statements, conceals income many times greater than his official earnings, and owns undeclared real estate abroad.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation demands that Lebedev resign his mandate as a State Duma deputy.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation also demands that both Lebedev and Zhirinovsky explain where their family gets the millions of dollars used to buy real estate abroad.
A special greeting to Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky. To paraphrase the triumphant statement by the LDPR faction about the “verdict against Navalny”: the expulsion of Zhirinovsky’s dear son from the State Duma for deceit and fraud is the only possible outcome for the “fifth column” in Russia. The investigation into the corrupt activities of the LDPR faction (the little brother of United Russia) is a warning to the entire “fifth column.”
And I want to add this: the level of corruption in both the Putin regime itself and its “lackeys,” like the LDPR, has reached unimaginable proportions. Monitoring whether officials’ spending matches their income, ratifying Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption, and introducing criminal liability for "illicit enrichment" should become real nationwide campaigns for all of us.
PS Needless to say, sharing this post through every possible channel is encouraged.
PPS For the most meticulous readers, once again on the origin of the data: The real estate company Royal Home Real Estate, which specializes in selling and renting luxury housing in Dubai, had uploaded internal documents to its website containing scans of clients’ passports, contracts, and so on. They were uploaded, of course, for internal use, without expecting Google to index them. There are not many documents—about 500 in total. All of them are publicly accessible on that very internet the LDPR is so eager to censor.
PPPS Many people are asking: why doesn’t the passport number match? The transaction process began in 2008, and Lebedev received a new passport on January 31, 2009; that is the one attached to the documents. That is why both passports appear in our materials. The passport copy found in the documents was obviously added later.
PPPPS (I love this kind of thing):
“How can anyone open accounts abroad? Does that mean the person does not trust their own country? Why keep money and real estate there? They work here, get information here, and then sell it there. Perhaps, having everything there, they may eventually leave Russia,” the lawmaker suggested. Vladimir Zhirinovsky agrees that an ordinary citizen or a retired politician has the right to own property outside Russia. But while performing official duties, this is unacceptable. “If you are a public official, an elected official—it should be banned. All future officials must know: if you have money abroad or real estate there, you should not become an elected official—a governor, a mayor. We will insist on a ban,” the LDPR leader concluded. http://ldpr.ru/events/zhirinovsky_property_abroad_is_dangerous_for_a_politician/