Deputy Slutsky’s three-story penthouse

Hi everyone, this is Georgy Alburov, and today

it's my turn to keep the video watch on this

channel. Let me remind you that the regular

hosts of this channel have been spending the past three weeks

in a special detention center, but we, the staff

of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, are continuing

our work no matter what.

Today we're continuing

a story that I believe is very important

to talk about, because its main character, State Duma deputy

Slutsky, is one of the most disgusting

and repulsive figures we've ever

had to deal with, and he got away

with it — and that's wrong.

Most of you know him as the deputy

who harassed several female journalists,

made crude remarks to them, groped them, and behaved

in an utterly vile

and boorish way. Despite audio recordings,

the testimony of three journalists, and a meeting of the

ethics commission, Slutsky wasn't even

given a reprimand for it. Those of you who watch

our channel also know Slutsky as

a psychotic driver who completely

ignores traffic

rules: in nine months he racked up

825 traffic fines. On top of that, we

found undeclared

property on Rublyovka (an elite suburban area near Moscow); he had hidden it from his

asset declarations for 10 years. After our complaint,

Slutsky suddenly remembered the plot and

added it to a new declaration. The chairwoman

of the commission responsible for checking this,

Natalya Poklonskaya, was not at all

concerned by the situation. So what if a deputy forgot

to declare a hectare of land on Rublyovka?

Just one of those everyday things — it happens to anyone, right?

What concerned Natalya Poklonskaya was something else:

namely, where we got

the supposedly secret data about this plot.

She said that investigators

were examining the FBK for — attention —

illegally obtaining information about

a deputy's property.

Let's listen to the quote:

"Publishing the information you have at the right moment is,

of course, all very well and impressive, but why don't

you also say where

the goods came from — that is, where this information

was obtained, from what sources?

Who helped you? How did you get it? Did you

send official requests? Show them." Natalya

Vladimirovna,

my dear, it's almost

embarrassing to say this, but the "goods" came from

Rosreestr (Russia's state real estate registry).

Using this property registry in

our country, in Russia, is still completely

legal.

You pay 300 rubles through Gosuslugi (the state services portal) — about $3 —

and you can get an extract like this for any

plot of land. Absolutely anyone can.

You're a deputy and a former prosecutor, after all. Well, Natalya

Vladimirovna, you really ought to

know that. I hope Poklonskaya will sooner or later

figure out how to use

Rosreestr, but in the meantime I suggest that she — and

all of you, dear viewers — watch a video lesson on

how to find corruptly acquired real estate.

It's honestly a little nerve-racking to reveal

our investigative methods, but

for the cause, it's worth it. We open the Yandex search bar,

and watch closely.

You're about to see some super-secret technology.

We type: "Slutsky bribe," hit Enter, and what do

we see? Literally on the second line:

"Polonsky said he gave a bribe in the form of a penthouse to..."

It seems to say Resin here, but

let's take a closer look

at what's there. We scroll down and

see exactly what we need: according to him,

an apartment in the elite residential complex Kutuzovskaya

Riviera

was extorted by State Duma deputy from the LDPR, Leonid

Slutsky. So what's next? Get ready.

Next we're going to engage in the illegal

gathering of "goods," as Natalya

Poklonskaya puts it.

We enter the address into Rosreestr and methodically

order extracts for all the apartments on

the upper floors. Here I'll

save the viewers a bit of time, simply

out of mercy — it's really not

the most exciting activity. We now have 16

extracts for 16 apartments. We look carefully

to see who's there: some legal entities, mostly,

but nothing especially interesting. And then

there it is — what we're looking for. The owner of one

of the apartments is

Lyskova, Lidiya Dmitrievna. At that point we

understood right away, but for the sake of making this video

lesson complete,

let's take one more step. You won't

believe it, but once again we go to Yandex, once again

a simple query — and once again, success.

A Meduza article about Slutsky. Excellent.

And in that article it says that Lidiya

Lyskova

is deputy Slutsky's wife. That's it — we can

pack up, disband the local task force,

hand out certificates — the investigation is over. But

of course, you and I are going to savor the details a bit more

and further prove that we're right.

For example, look at the official

extract: the area of Lyskova's apartment in

Kutuzovskaya Riviera is 561.7 square meters

(about 6,046 square feet). Just

look at Slutsky's declaration, and there

you'll find the same figure listed under the label

"non-residential premises owned

by the wife." A clever penthouse

pretending to be some kind of storage unit in

Khimki (a city just outside Moscow).

You probably can't even

imagine an apartment that size; it's unlikely

you've ever even visited one like that

as a guest. But we can help with that.

We're in western Moscow, right next to

There is so much greenery here near Kutuzovsky Prospekt (a major avenue in Moscow)

that you might think

we've ended up in a forest. But this is a specially protected

natural park, the Setun River Valley.

Its area is 700 hectares. Let's fly in closer.

The huge buildings in front of us are the residential

complex Kutuzovskaya Riviera.

It was built by Sergei Polonsky. Here we

found the very penthouse that,

as Polonsky himself claims, he gave

to Slutsky as a bribe. The whole building here consists

of 30 floors. The penthouses occupy the top

three, and they are easy to spot by the panoramic windows.

Each of these floors has four

apartments. Slutsky took all three stacked

one above the other and combined them into a grand

three-story penthouse.

Its officially declared area is 561 square meters.

Let's go higher and see what these

buildings look like at night. And at night they

shimmer in every color of the rainbow. Their

glow can be seen from many kilometers away. For the residents

of the penthouses, it must be especially hard:

this shines straight into their windows all night long.

But what kind of penthouse would it be without its own

terrace? Slutsky has two of them. The upper one

has an area of 100 square meters, and the lower one

is 50 square meters.

They make it possible to simultaneously host

barbecue parties on one level and

read books on seduction while lying on

a folding cot on the other. All of this is worth at

least 400 million rubles.

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But that's not all. Once again, with a simple

search engine, we find Lidiya Dmitrievna

Lyskova in some old

vehicle database. The license plate registered to her

is shown on the right: A700MR 77.

We look at the photo: who is this cheerful man

getting out of a Lexus with that plate number? Still,

for some reason, it's Deputy Slutsky. And where is the Lexus

in the declaration? No, there is no Lexus in the declaration.

Not owned by him, not listed for his use either.

So what happened? Another

technical error? But the declaration does include

two new cars purchased in 2017.

One is a Maybach for 12 million rubles.

That, by the way, is two and a half annual salaries

for Deputy Slutsky. And a brand-new

Bentley SUV for 20 million

rubles. That's four of Slutsky's annual salaries.

Where does he get this money? Since

we're talking about salaries, we know

what Slutsky's wife earned over several years.

In 2010, for example, she earned 7,000

rubles a month. That was, incidentally,

more or less at the subsistence-minimum level

for that year. The same the following year, and

so on until 2017.

She was earning around 20,000 rubles a

month. In other words, either the person was not

working anywhere, or was working only nominally.

So where did she get $6 million to

buy a three-story penthouse?

Even though he earns a serious salary of 400,000

rubles a month as a deputy,

that money isn't enough even for the front

door of this penthouse. In other

investigations, we usually joke: maybe he found

a treasure, maybe he won the lottery. But here, what's there

to joke about? Here, the developer of this building himself

said openly that the penthouse was

given as a bribe. I want to address

Volodin, Natalia Poklonskaya, the ethics commission

in its entirety, the prosecutor's office,

and whoever else is covering for Slutsky. I am

addressing all of you at once: at least

have a little conscience, for once. At least

symbolically. Let me remind you: you are officials,

public servants. Are you even going to do your job

at all? If you don't know how to use search engines,

couldn't you at least, based on the existing

crime report from the developer,

check whether this penthouse was indeed

a bribe or not? It would take just 10

minutes. You're worried about where the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation) got this

information about the property from,

but the fact that a deputy's wife,

according to her own declaration,

living practically in poverty, becomes the owner

of one of the largest

penthouses in Moscow—this doesn't concern you at all?

And the fact that in the past year alone

Slutsky bought cars worth 32 million

rubles while earning 5 million—does that

not bother you either?

What conclusions can be drawn here? Only

the bleakest ones.

At the head of the country's key agencies

are incompetent, unqualified, and

useless idlers. Their job is not

to protect your interests.

Their job is to engage in criminal

cover-ups for corrupt people like themselves.

Slutsky can have ten corrupt

penthouses, twenty Maybachs,

whether he declares them or not—his colleagues will still understand

and excuse him. That is their main function and

the only reason they were appointed

to these high positions.

They are incapable of anything else.

I'll end with the obvious: Deputy Slutsky

is a corrupt official, a pervert, and a psychopath, and he

must resign immediately.

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