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That’s how it goes in our country: you start out
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building a hyper-mega-supersonic super
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missile, and what you end up with is a chalet in the French
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Alps. But still, Russia was and remains
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one of the world’s largest nuclear powers. No,
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no one really wanted
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to talk to us.
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No one listened to us. Listen now.
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[applause]
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Remember those fantastic animated videos about
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the most advanced types of Russian
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weapons that Putin showed in his
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address to the Federal Assembly?
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It was amazing—the kind of top-tier graphics
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that computer games from the
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1990s would have envied.
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[music]
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The coolest moment was especially when
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the missile dodges obstacles. At that point even
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the deputies can’t hold back and start
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applauding in delight.
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It bypasses defensive lines, proving that
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Putin understands that everyone is actually, well,
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a little embarrassed to watch this
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cartoon, so he explains:
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they replaced everything with images because
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the real products being made with
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the money we allocate to Russia’s
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defense industry are so secret that
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they can’t be shown to anyone at all—only
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computer graphics can be shown. For obvious
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reasons, today we cannot
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show the true appearance, the actual external
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look of this product. Even that today has
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significance—serious significance, I think.
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Everyone understands that. But we will show
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it, and let the authorities accuse us of
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unpatriotic behavior, and let them
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say we’re Russophobes. Let’s look at these
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photographs. What do they have in common? Well,
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even with the naked eye you can see signs of
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Russophobia.
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On all their faces. How did you determine that? By
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what signs? The first sign is
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deep-set... look, deep-set...
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Let’s keep looking. But we’re still going to show
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these secrets being built with money
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allocated for advanced weaponry.
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Most of these flying contraptions
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that Putin talked about are produced by
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the state corporation Tactical
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Missile Armament. For many years now,
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it has had two main leaders:
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CEO Boris Obnosov,
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a trusted Putin associate and a big fan of his
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rule, and also the chairman of the board of
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directors.
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Right now that is one of the founders of United
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Russia, Boris Gryzlov.
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But before him, for many years,
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our old acquaintance worked there,
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a lover of luxurious yacht vacations in the
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company of escort girls—Sergei
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Prikhodko.
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Putin’s adviser, first deputy
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chief of the government staff.
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Of course, of course—you remember him from our
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quite popular investigation into
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the girl Nastya Rybka, oligarch Deripaska,
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and this very same inexplicably wealthy
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Prikhodko. There is only one answer: huntress Nastya
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knows perfectly well who Sergei
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Eduardovich is
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because Sergei Eduardovich is sitting
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right next to her during this conversation, on
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the yacht, and
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this is Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko,
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Deputy Prime Minister
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of the Russian Federation.
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So there you have it. Today, Novaya Gazeta
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published an excellent investigation into
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how money is being stolen from
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the Tactical Missile
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Armament corporation. For example, all procurement by this
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state corporation—many billions of
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rubles
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worth—is handled by a special company appointed
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by decision of CEO Obnosov.
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So that’s how they ended up with
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an intermediary firm that takes
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a cut for itself. And 20 percent of that firm in
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2014 ended up in the hands of a 24-year-old woman
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named Olga Zharikova, who is not at all
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a missile engineer, as you might
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have assumed.
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If you spend a little time and
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search online for Olga Zharikova,
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you’ll find that she is
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a makeup artist and hairdresser who does brides’
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wedding hairstyles. Maybe the hairstyles are
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good, but why should tens of billions of
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rubles
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from the military-industrial complex
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be funneled through the office of some
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obscure stylist?
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I think you’ve already guessed: Olga Zharikova
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is the dear daughter of the CEO of
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the Tactical Missile
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Armament corporation, Boris Obnosov, a trusted
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associate of Vladi-
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mir Vladimirovich Putin. Read this
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Novaya Gazeta piece—the link is in the
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description. There’s a lot of interesting material there, but we were
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interested in another leader of the military
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state corporation:
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our old acquaintance Sergei Prikhodko. And in
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parallel with Novaya Gazeta, we were looking for
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the property of this crook and thief
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that he registers in the names of members of his
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family, and we found his son-in-law, Ignas
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Ochakov, who does business with the daughter and
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son-in-law of Boris Obnosov. The business is absolutely
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astonishing—the kind of thing no
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business training course would ever teach you.
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Subsidiaries of the military corporation,
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the military corporation Tactical Missile
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Armament, were building various facilities,
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for example
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a giant grain elevator in
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the Port of Taganrog, and by the way
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what’s especially funny is that no one in
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the government, or the Ministry of Defense,
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or the FSB (Russia’s security service) ever asked,
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excuse me, why the hell a missile corporation
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was spending millions of dollars on
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building a grain elevator. Anyway,
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one way or another, they set it up, construction
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goes ahead, and shortly before completion
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they go and sell it to
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Prikhodko’s son-in-law for seven times
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below market value. So basically
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the scheme is this: two Putin officials run
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a secret military corporation, while their
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daughters and sons-in-law make money
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by latching onto the money of this
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corporation and carrying out various projects at
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its expense—that is, at your expense, because it’s your
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taxes that fill Russia’s enormous military
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budget.
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And now, my friends, I want to take you
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to the French Alps, because, strange as it
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may sound, money stolen from
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Russian missiles is being invested precisely
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here. And by the way, I insist that you
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take special note of one thing: Sergey
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Prikhodko, as a government official, on
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Medvedev’s instructions, is specifically responsible for
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preparing retaliatory anti-Western
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sanctions.
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There he is, swaggering in interviews: “We do not
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intend to ask Europe to lift sanctions.”
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“It’s a matter of political maturity,” or
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then suddenly
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in another interview: “Western sanctions mean nothing to us.”
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“Our partnership
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is unshakable.” Of course it’s unshakable, Sergey
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Nikolayevich.
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Your personal partnership with the West—and your family’s—
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is so unshakable that
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your daughter Svetlana Prikhodko is
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the director and co-owner of a French
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company specially registered in
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2014 for the purchase and management of
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a specific property, namely
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a chalet in France. We obtained this
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information from the official public
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registry, and then requested the land registry
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records and found that it belongs
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to another French company,
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Akela SARL, whose 100% owner
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is your son-in-law, Ivan Sadchikov,
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the very same man who does business off
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the state corporation Tactical Missiles
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Corporation, where you
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served for 10 years as chairman of the board
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of directors. So, shall we fly over and look at the chalet? We’re
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over the French ski resort
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of Megève, right near the border with Switzerland and
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Italy. This is not just a small, beautiful
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town in the mountains—it is also one of the most
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prestigious ski resorts in the world.
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A huge number of ski lifts are ready
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to carry any vacationer straight from
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the cobbled streets and fragrant baguettes to
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a summit 2 kilometers high, from where
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there is a magnificent panorama of
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Mont Blanc. And now let’s come in closer.
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Right in front of us is that very chalet.
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From the building to the ski lifts is only a couple
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hundred meters. The house has an area of 170 square
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meters, and it sits on 11 sotkas of precious
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French land (about 0.11 hectares). We believe that
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the Prikhodko family acquired this house in
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2014 through a chain of other companies,
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and in 2016—this part is already confirmed
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information—everything was officially registered to
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Prikhodko’s son-in-law’s personal French company.
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If you feel slightly
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disappointed that this is not
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some pompous palace but rather
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an unremarkable little house, then you’re
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mistaken. This is a super-elite location with
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insanely expensive land, and this little house
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is worth €2.1 million.
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Now let’s look at the property documentation,
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which we also obtained completely
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officially. The chalet is built from wooden
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logs. There is a basement, three basement
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rooms,
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most likely for wine, a storage room, and on the first
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floor three bedrooms and two bathrooms,
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a toilet, a wooden terrace; on the second
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floor, a bedroom with a balcony and
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a bathroom with a toilet. Along with the chalet came
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furniture, including
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for example, bedding for
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different rooms worth €4,700,
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mattresses for €7,500, and
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even curtain rods
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for €10,000. All in all, a great place.
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Congratulations to Sergey Prikhodko,
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his daughter, and his son-in-law on having so
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successfully parked the money from Russia’s
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military budget. But to everyone else I
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want to ask: so what do you make of this? Because to
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us, on television, they talk about
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super-secret state corporations, missiles,
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an efficient military budget, sanctions
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against the West, patriotism—they applaud one
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another. But the reality behind this Putin-era
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image is offshore companies,
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chalets in the Alps, and daughters and sons-in-law in this
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super-secret corporation doing whatever
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they want, skimming off billions and moving them
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abroad. The security services either stay silent
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or are so incompetent that they
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are incapable of noticing it. So if it
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seems to you that Putin has brought some kind of order
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to the defense sector,
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and to arms procurement, don’t believe it
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for a second. Everything is falling apart. The specialists
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have scattered. The only ones left from the USSR (Soviet Union) are
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already elderly, and there are simply no new ones. We
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are still using technological
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developments from the 1980s of the Soviet Union,
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they wrecked it, looted it, and the money
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have been moved to the West. Here is the scheme of operation
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of Putin's elite in the sphere of
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the military-industrial complex. Your
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personal step to oppose this
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is to share this video, especially with those
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who work in the structures of the Tactical Missiles Corporation
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and everyone who
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works anywhere in the defense
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industry, all military personnel, and those who
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are connected with the army
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But let them watch, and let them decide for themselves
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whom they should
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support. Subscribe to our channel
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where the truth is told