When we were preparing to publish our investigation into the Chaika family, we decided to share the materials in advance with Novaya Gazeta. Their journalists checked the facts and confirmed our findings.
And best of all, Novaya’s reporters found yet another hotel in Greece owned by Artyom Chaika (the prosecutor general’s son) and Olga Lopatina (the wife of a deputy prosecutor general). It was purchased at the very height of our investigation — in May 2015 for €14 million. (A curious detail: in the Greek documents, Olga Lopatina describes herself as a housewife — so where did the millions come from?)
Never mind our investigation — by May 2015, the confrontation with the West was already in full swing, with sanctions and countersanctions, officials being told they had to be patriots, and all that. Yet prosecutors’ money was being moved to Greece.
Right across the fence from the Pomegranate hotel, which we describe here.
And then there is the Prosecutor General’s Office’s wonderful — and, above all, exhaustive — response to Novaya Gazeta’s inquiries about the investigation materials.
Thanks to our friends at Novaya for their painstaking work. Read more here: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/70973.html