While the head of the Gazprom-Media holding company is busy trying to force Echo of Moscow journalists to post ethical tweets on Twitter, the case materials on his corruption and money laundering (Lesin's, not Twitter's) are slowly but surely making their way through the U.S. law enforcement system.
As you may recall, I already wrote about U.S. Senator Wicker's letter to U.S. Attorney General Holder, in which he calls for an investigation into Lesin.
The point is that the ardent Putin loyalist Lesin, while serving as a government official, somehow came into possession of a large amount of money in an offshore account in the British Virgin Islands, and invested some of it in real estate in places terribly far from our sacred site—Ancient Korsun (an old name for Chersonesus, often invoked in Russian nationalist rhetoric)—namely, in the United States, in Los Angeles, California. The total came to $28 million.
Here is the first of Lesin's four houses. We know that Dastel Corporation, which belongs to Lesin, owns a house whose address matches its registered legal address. We found information showing that Dastel Corporation is located at 10 Beverly Park, Beverly Hills.
The second house, registered to the same company, is also located in Los Angeles.
Lesin's third house. It is registered to another company mentioned by Wicker—Java Drive Inc
We have not found the fourth house yet.
And here is the response from the Department of Justice:
In essence, the Department of Justice thanks Senator Wicker for bringing this case to their attention and says that they are forwarding all materials related to it to the Department's Criminal Division and to the FBI for appropriate review.
I'd like to send M. Yu. Lesin, that patriot of California real estate, my warm regards and wish that any tweets on this subject be exclusively ethical.