Why does Moscow’s prosecutor, after taking bribes, invest them in real estate in Montenegro rather than in Crimea or Sochi?
More sunshine, closer to NATO, prospects of joining the European Union, an actual judicial system, no United Russia (the Kremlin’s ruling party), a warm sea, and wonderful friendly neighbors.
That last point gets emphasized a lot. Montenegrins really are quite friendly folks (though Croats would strongly dispute that). But in our case, that friendliness and neighborliness let Moscow’s city prosecutor down.
After our investigation was published, journalists from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty went to the scene and simply went around to the neighbors with a photo of our prosecutor.
Just in case we were lying and he had never been there at all.
We weren’t lying. The neighbors broke into smiles and replied: of course we know him. We see him all the time. A wonderful neighbor. It’s his family’s house, which they rent out for the summer.
So far, neither Popov, nor his boss Chaika, nor Putin, who appointed Popov, has said a single word to us.
They are pretending that nothing is happening.
Let’s keep spreading the investigation. Let Chaika and Putin keep refusing to answer to as many people as possible.