What can you expect when you write a post saying that the newly appointed head of the National Guard owns property worth 663 million rubles, with no explanation whatsoever of where he got that money.
In a normal, healthy situation, you would expect General Zolotov to explain everything, provide reasons, and point out mistakes in your investigation. To say that the registries got it wrong. That we miscalculated the value.
But this is Russia, where things work the absurd way, so National Guardsman Zolotov stays silent, while RBC comes out with a statement: Navalny and the ACF made a mistake. They failed to find several more real estate properties belonging to the Zolotov family, worth 227 million rubles.
Not found:
His son's plot in Barvikha, outside Moscow, measuring 88 sotkas (0.88 hectares); three plots there belonging to Zolotov's son-in-law, Yury Chechikhin, totaling 1.2 hectares; another plot belonging to the son-in-law in Kalchuga, measuring 29 sotkas (0.29 hectares); and two apartments owned by the same son-in-law on Veresayeva Street in Moscow (total area 400.9 sq. m). Another apartment (189 sq. m) belonging to Viktor Zolotov himself is located in Gelendzhik.
Thus, the minimum value of the real estate owned by the family of the Army General and head of Russia's National Guard is 940 million rubles. In reality, it is even higher, because Novaya valued its portion of the properties at cadastral rather than market value.
So here is the fact: Putin's bodyguard is a billionaire.
This is yet another explanation for why the authorities so hate our Initiative #20 against illicit enrichment. In the beautiful Russia of the future, an official with a billion rubles' worth of real estate will not be appointed to the National Guard, but sent to the defendant's bench.
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