Well then, no "pekhting" is needed. A community of investigative journalists has published a report on the secret owners of offshore accounts. It mainly concerns accounts and companies registered in the British Virgin Islands. And in it, we find an old acquaintance of ours.
"Other high-profile names in the offshore account data include the wife of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and two top Gazprom executives... ... The documents indicate that Shuvalov's wife and Gazprom employees hold stakes in companies in the BVI" The most recent asset declaration published by Shuvalov looks impressive, but contains no information whatsoever about any BVI offshore holdings:
He concealed it. With criminal intent. From the public, from Putin, and from the dear beloved party, United Russia. We know very well where the astonishing wealth of this nomenklatura family (the Soviet-style ruling elite) comes from: the husband has been a state official for many years, while the wife is a housewife.
I wrote about this in great detail here.
Shuvalov received enormous bribes from Abramovich, Usmanov, and Shvidler in exchange for resolving their issues at the highest Kremlin level. There is plenty of evidence for this, while Shuvalov's babbling about some mythical Sibneft option in the 1990s remains just that—babbling. There is no evidence that any such option ever existed. When documents about payments to Shuvalov's offshore companies were published, we filed crime reports with every law enforcement agency. It is not hard to guess that Bastrykin's valiant agents reply with only one thing: "Igoryok is innotsent"
There is supposedly nothing even to investigate. Apparently there are no signs of a crime in the fact that a "housewife," who also happens to be the deputy prime minister's wife, receives a hundred million dollars from oligarchs into her offshore accounts. Not the slightest bit suspicious at all. We have been appealing all these brush-off responses from the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor's Office, and the Interior Ministry for months. The news that yet another of Shuvalov's offshore companies has been exposed is very timely. Our Anti-Corruption Foundation has already contacted the authors of the publications. We will obtain the primary documents from them and, as usual, turn all of this into formal complaints. We demand that Shuvalov be immediately dismissed from public service, and that a proper investigation be launched against him and those who paid him. And of course I am very curious to see how Putin will go on peddling his bogus nonsense about the "nationalization of the elite" and "strict control over officials' foreign assets" after the entire world press has now written for the second time about the secret offshore millions of his closest henchman. As soon as we get the documents, we will publish them immediately.
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