The biography of Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s son clearly tells us that this man has devoted his life to serving the Motherland.
Born into Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s family, he earned a doctoral degree, spent his whole life working in the State Duma on the public payroll, and then the very next section is “awards.”
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev has nine of them, including the medal “For Strengthening Combat Brotherhood”.
Igor Vladimirovich is known to us as a patriot. And how could it be otherwise now, when the country is in danger?
Foreigners think of nothing but how to chip away at Russian sovereignty, but they are always rebuffed by both Lebedev and his father, Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
The LDPR was behind all the most hellish laws passed by the “rabid printer” (a Russian nickname for the rubber-stamp parliament): the “foreign agents law,” the “internet censorship law,” the “Dima Yakovlev law” (“law of scoundrels”), and so on and so forth.
Wherever there is “tightening” and “extremism,” there you will find Igor Lebedev and the LDPR.
It would somehow be wrong and unfair if, for such many years of active work fighting the “fifth column”, Igor Vladimirovich were rewarded with nothing more than an official salary and a medal.
And hooray, that injustice did not happen. The Kremlin The Motherland generously supplies treats its lackeys its loyal sons to “black cash” birch sap.
We would never have learned anything from Zhirinovsky’s son himself—he is a modest and shy man: he even swore and made a scene rather than publish his financial disclosure. But a database from one of Dubai’s real estate agencies that “leaked” online (incidentally, data from this same leak exposed a crooked United Russia party member just yesterday) gives us a chance to see the real level of wealth of this prominent patriot and fighter against all things foreign:
document (copy on Google Drive) So, in 2009, Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s son, State Duma deputy Igor Lebedev, bought an apartment in Dubai measuring 442 square meters (4,760 sq ft) for 86.765 million rubles (9,045,234 dirhams). Here is the Botanica tower where the apartment is located:
Botanica Tower is an impressive 36 floor development which is located in Dubai Marina. It is preferably located between the waterfront and the marina. It ensures that you may capture every aspect of Dubai, with views of Dubai Marina, the Arabian Gulf, and the famous man made islands, Palm Jumeirah. Botanica effectively brings together the glamour, luxury and relieve which is the same with Dubai, but with an added twist which certainly sets it apart from every other development in Dubai Marina. http://www.providentestate.com/Dubai-Real-Estate-Projects/Dubai-Marina/Botanica-Tower-445.html My rough translation: The 36-story Botanica tower is ideally located between the waterfront and Dubai Marina. It offers excellent views of the city, the marina, the Arabian Gulf, and the famous artificial island Palm Jumeirah. It effectively combines glamour, luxury, and comfort—the very comforts a Russian State Duma deputy can indulge in right after voting for laws on fighting foreign agents and censoring the internet.
View from satellite
The apartment is enormous—440 square meters. Five bedrooms and seven (!!!!) toilets. There’s a jacuzzi on the balcony.
Here are the details of a completely identical apartment being rented out by the same agency from which the leak originated. The payments were made in installments, and the apartment was fully paid off in October 2012.
OF COURSE, Lebedev’s disclosure contains nothing even remotely resembling either this apartment or the income needed to pay for it.
http://declarator.org/person/94/ The documents include Lebedev’s international passport.
http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/131298/ That’s the kind of lucrative public service you get in the LDPR faction. Today, the Anti-Corruption Foundation is officially appealing to all competent authorities, demanding an investigation and official recognition of the fact that Zhirinovsky’s son Lebedev is lying in his disclosures, concealing income many times greater than his official earnings, and owns undeclared foreign real estate. The ACF is demanding that Lebedev resign his mandate as a State Duma deputy. The ACF is demanding explanations from both Lebedev and Zhirinovsky as to where their family gets the millions of dollars needed to buy foreign real estate. And a special hello to Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky. To paraphrase the LDPR faction’s triumphant statement about “Navalny’s verdict”: the explsion of Zhirinovsky’s dear son from the State Duma for deceit and fraud is the only possible outcome for the “fifth column” in Russia. The investigation into the corrupt activities of the LDPR faction (the little brother of United Russia) is a warning to the entire “fifth column.” And I want to add this: the level of corruption in Putin’s regime itself, and among its “lackeys” like the LDPR, has reached unimaginable proportions. Oversight of whether officials’ spending matches their income, ratification of Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption, and the introduction of criminal liability for “illegal enrichment” must become real nationwide campaigns for all of us. PS Naturally, sharing this post through every possible channel is welcome. PPS For the most meticulous readers, once again about the source of the data: The real estate company Royal Home Real Estate, which specializes in the sale and rental of luxury housing in Dubai, had been posting internal documents on its website with scans of clients’ passports, contracts, and so on. It was posting them, of course, for internal use, not expecting Google to index them. There are not many documents, only about 500 in total. All of them are publicly accessible on that very internet the LDPR so badly wants to censor. PPPS Many people ask: why doesn’t the passport number match? The transaction process began in 2008, and Lebedev received a new passport on January 31, 2009; that is the one attached to the documents. That is why both passports appear in our materials. The passport copy found in the documents was obviously added later. PPPPS (I love this kind of thing):
“How can anyone open accounts abroad? Does that mean the person does not trust their own country? Why keep money and real estate there? He works here, gets information here, and then will sell it there. Perhaps, having everything there, he will eventually leave Russia,” the parliamentarian suggested. Vladimir Zhirinovsky agrees that an ordinary citizen or a retired politician has the right to own property outside Russia. But while performing official duties, this is unacceptable. “If you are a public official, an elected official—it should be banned. All future officials must know: if you have money abroad or real estate there, you should not become an elected official—a governor, a mayor. We will insist on a ban,” the LDPR leader concluded. http://ldpr.ru/events/zhirinovsky_property_abroad_is_dangerous_for_a_politician/ The Anti-Corruption Foundation exists on donations from private individuals. If you like what we do, then go here and become part of our support base.