In this video investigation, released in November 2019, Alexei Navalny exposes the astonishing hypocrisy of Denis Popov, who was Moscow’s prosecutor at the time. It was Popov who actively pushed for the arrest of participants in the Moscow protests and demanded that the ACF be designated a “foreign agent,” while his own family was buying up luxury hotels in Montenegro and a townhouse in Spain. With irony and clarity, Alexei shows who the real foreign agent is here: the man hiding millions of euros in European resorts and dachas on Rublyovka (an elite suburban area outside Moscow), registered in the names of his ex-wife and elderly mother.
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Right now it's just that
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the season is different.
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[music]
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There haven't been any new videos on
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my channel for a very long time. But where am I supposed to record them? People keep bursting into our
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office all the time, wearing black
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caps, and taking absolutely all the cameras,
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lights, sound equipment, computers—everything.
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There's nowhere to record, so today I'm in
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the Maryino district of Moscow. Behind me is the building where
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my only piece of property is located—
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my apartment. In a minute I'll go up to my apartment
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and record the video there.
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[music]
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So, here I am at home in my apartment, and it seems like
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I could start recording, but actually
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it's not entirely safe here either.
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Look, this is an order
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from the Moscow prosecutor. His name is Denis Popov.
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You can go to the website
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and see him there: a magnificent, handsome man in
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a white uniform jacket with gold epaulettes. He was
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personally appointed by Putin. He's a favorite
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of Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.
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Yury Chaika introduced Denis Popov, saying: "I am sure that in
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his new post, the skills and experience he has gained
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will help him organize full-fledged
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cooperation with government authorities,
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law enforcement agencies, for
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strengthening legality and public order, and
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for the prompt resolution of all
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the tasks facing the prosecutor's office."
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He is one of the top figures
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in the country's prosecutorial system—a very
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powerful man. And this
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powerful man says that I and
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other opposition activists organized
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rallies, and that through those rallies we caused damage
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worth many, many millions of rubles,
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so we have to pay. And until we do,
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the apartments of various people, including mine,
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are supposed to be seized.
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Just imagine: we start recording,
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and then Denis Popov himself bursts in here in
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his white uniform jacket. That would be pretty strange. What
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to do—I have no idea.
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In spy movies, in war movies, they always
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say that the safest place
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is to sneak into the enemy's lair and
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do something there while hiding out.
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It would actually be pretty cool
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if some unknown force
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transported us into the apartment of this great
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and powerful prosecutor, Denis
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Popov. He's worked in this
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system for many years; his home is surely protected, and
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we could really make
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great videos there. But how could we get there?
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Probably only with magic. Don't
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laugh at me—let's try. I just want
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to be in the prosecutor's apartment.
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I want to be in the prosecutor's apartment, I want
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to be in the prosecutor's apartment. It worked.
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Can you believe it? It fucking worked.
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People really do tell the truth when they say that if
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you want something badly enough, it
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will definitely happen. And we really have ended up
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in the apartment of the Moscow city prosecutor,
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Denis Popov. And yes, there he is
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on the TV right here.
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"My appointment to the position of Moscow prosecutor
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is, without a doubt, a very
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important stage in my work..." That's his
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speech at the Moscow City Duma
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when he was appointed city prosecutor
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of Moscow on the recommendation of the Prosecutor General
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of Russia.
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And on another channel, of course, there's the Moscow prosecutor's
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favorite show:
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the police beat people at peaceful
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protests, and then those same people are jailed for
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having been beaten, and the indictments
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against all those people are then
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approved by our prosecutor.
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So, basically, all that's left for us
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is to stand up, open these blinds, and figure out
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where we are.
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Personally, I'm betting on Izmailovo. A long time ago
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our prosecutor used to be the prosecutor
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of Izmailovo, so maybe this is his
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Izmailovo apartment. What else could it be?
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We open it—and speaking very quietly—we're in
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Dagestan, of course. A long time ago
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he must have bought himself an apartment by the sea. Right now we're
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trying not to make noise, barely speaking at all.
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There are lowered Priora cars (a popular Lada model in the North Caucasus) and people on their way to
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Khabib (Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Dagestani MMA fighter).
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A map—look, we have a map on the balcony
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that will let us figure everything out for sure.
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Amazing things: this map doesn't show
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Makhachkala.
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And then, quite unexpectedly, it turns out to be
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Montenegro. I'm sure the question hanging in the air is
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why I'm whispering on the balcony. What kind of
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trick is this? Who are we hiding from?
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I'll explain: we're hiding from Moscow's chief
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prosecutor, Popov, because
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we are in a room at a Montenegrin
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hotel that belongs to his family
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and which he hides from the citizens of Russia. But
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we found it anyway. We just didn't want
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him to find out ahead of time.
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See for yourself: here's our balcony, and right here,
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literally 3 meters away on the neighboring one, sat
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the manager of this hotel, a Russian
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woman named Alla. She is the Popov family's best friend.
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She was sitting on the balcony watching
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a TV series on her laptop at the exact moment
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when we were recording all this. Let's take a better
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look around here. We are flying over the Bay of Kotor
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ahead is a small tourist
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village, Marine.
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The hotel we were just in
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is up ahead. Its area is more than 1,000 square
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meters.
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Naturally, the main thing here is not, of course,
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the rooms.
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It is simply priceless, but the house itself can be
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valued at 1.5 million euros. The company
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Manti Biser, which owns all of this,
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was founded by Prosecutor Popov's wife,
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Irina, in 2009. At that time she was still
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his legal wife, which means that by law
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this was marital joint property.
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First they bought the land, then they started
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building a new house. The apartment was put up for
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sale, but it didn't work out—no one wanted
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to become neighbors
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of Russian prosecutors. Probably for the best.
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Now they are rented out, and any of us
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can stay there
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as a foreign guest of the Moscow prosecutor.
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The fight against corruption is
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well, a broad range of issues addressed
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not only by the prosecutor's office, but also by
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the executive branch and all branches of government
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that we have. I would also say that
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society should not stand aside either.
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In the kitchen there's a refrigerator, and inside it there's sausage
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that
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someone made, and let's say, some booze too.
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Of course, it would be tempting to take a sip from Gharlane, but I
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won't do that. We are in one of the
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apartments in an eight-unit building that
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is located right on the seashore.
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Right now, you can go on Booking
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and rent one of these apartments for
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a relatively modest amount of money, come
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here, and see these wonderful
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amazing little elephants. I hope the prosecutor himself
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picked them out. Come on, let me show you
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the next room. There's a bedroom there,
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and the view from it is absolutely
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stunning.
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decorative grounds for his resignation
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[applause]
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helping to have someone recognized as a foreign agent
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for now, and you don't even have time—this bastard
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the dress was not declared, essentially.
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in Mostiske, on the mountain, a platform, and then
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Prosecutor Popov never declared his Montenegrin assets.
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The land is registered
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to a company.
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The company is registered to his wife, now
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his ex-wife as of recently. And this company now has
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a share owned by an offshore entity in the British Virgin
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Islands, and most likely that is the share
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belonging to the prosecutor, just carefully hidden.
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The main thing we understand is that this whole
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Montenegro story is not just
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an investment—though it's funny to talk about
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the foreign investments of a man who
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earns a salary of 60,000 rubles a month (about €650 / $700). This is
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a full-fledged part of his family's life.
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They all vacation here, and his children
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happily swim here. If you want proof,
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let's look at the photos: on the left are
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photos from social media,
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and on the right, our undercover footage. Everything is
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quite unambiguous. As for
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photos of Prosecutor Denis Popov himself
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in Montenegro, we managed to find this one.
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Remember the social network
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Odnoklassniki (a Russian classmates-based social network)? That's where we got it from. And when
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we conduct investigations, unfortunately
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we are forced to study photos like this
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literally for hours, and we looked at this one
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for a very long time too. Where do you think it
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led us?
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You can't see much in the photo.
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The prosecutor is squatting on some kind of
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mountain, and behind him you can see a beautiful lake.
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Well, that's all we had. Plus
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the understanding that the matter probably didn't end
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with just a hotel by the sea, so we had to keep looking. Well,
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we had some success, though only partial. The season is different,
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the water level in the lake is a bit
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lower, but this is definitely the same
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lake and the exact same spot from which
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our prosecutor had his photo taken.
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We had to spend a lot of time
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to find this exact place, and I really want
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to say now: but at least by doing that
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we discovered another
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hotel belonging to him. Unfortunately, no—
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it turned out to be a dead end. There is no
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hotel here. It's just genuinely
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a really great lake. It's called Piva Lake.
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Piva—and every Russian person comes
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here to take a picture next to
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Lake Piva. But there is a hotel, just in
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another place.
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By the sea, or
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or maybe there is
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something else.
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[music]
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or bananas
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[music]
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Porsche
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[music]
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We've been driving for a very long time. In fact, one of the
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things that never stops being surprising
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when we go out filming
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the properties of crooked government
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officials
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is that you really do have to spend hours driving around
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European countries. We were down below,
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near the Bay of Kotor, and now we've been driving
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for many hours into the mountains. It feels like
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we're investigating not the activities
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of the damn Moscow prosecutor, whose
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salary is 60,000 rubles a month (about €650 / $700), but of some
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latifundist oligarch who has invested
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money literally all across
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Europe. And, well, that's exactly what it is: the Moscow prosecutor
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is simultaneously an oligarch
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and a latifundist. He is running his
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business. He puts people in prison, he puts people in prison.
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Look at his holdings.
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Let's pay attention—Georgy, email, Putin...
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Putin in this kind of... hmm.
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It is quite possible that this place will host
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a gathering organized in support of Putin. Come on, here
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it is, this hotel—it's a ski resort.
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A residential complex—an investment project that
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our wonderful prosecutor is building in
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the city of Moscow.
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Construction is clearly in an active phase.
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People are walking around, guys are moving about, cars
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keep pulling up. We stood here for a while,
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and construction materials were being delivered constantly.
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So this is how it works—an investment
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project in Montenegro.
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And people in Moscow have to be jailed so that
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they don’t interfere with his carrying out these
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projects. And these aren’t just houses on a mountain.
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There’s a ski resort nearby, and
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they’re building a road here right now.
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So from the standpoint of a
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long-term investment,
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our wonderful prosecutor apparently made
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the right decision. There will be a road here,
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a ski resort, and all these little houses
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will be full of people, each of whom
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will be paying in, and that will
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generate exactly that
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little stash of foreign capital for the man
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who labels you and me foreign agents
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(a Russian legal designation used to stigmatize critics). As a little extra,
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the camera is already covered all over
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—but let’s take the risk and keep filming.
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Dear viewer, our equipment got
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pretty soaked. And the drop didn’t just land on
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the glass—it’s running down it. I’d say this is
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nature itself crying as it watches
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Russian money being invested
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here. Just look for yourselves—the construction
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is in full swing. They’re putting up three impressive chalets, about 250 square meters each,
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each. We’re at an elevation of roughly
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1,500 meters (about 4,900 feet) above sea level.
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This is a protected area. In winter there’s snow here and
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plenty of room for winter sports.
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The nearest ski lift is only a few hundred
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meters away—very convenient. The land belongs
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to the same company as
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the seaside hotel—that is, to Irina Popova
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and an offshore company. But there is much
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more land here: the entire surrounding area, almost
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a hectare (about 10,000 square meters), belongs to our company. The plans
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for this place were simply grand. There was supposed
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to be a full-scale hotel and
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a spa complex, but then the crisis hit and
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the prosecutor’s business stalled. In 2012,
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they even tried to sell them
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unfinished for €700,000 to €800,000 each,
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but it didn’t work out. Now construction
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is underway again. Apparently our hero did manage
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to find a spare moment and, between meetings about
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how to declare FBK (the Anti-Corruption Foundation) a foreign
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agent, he made some new decisions
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about the fate of his Montenegrin resort
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project. Of course, they are crooks and thieves
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—absolutely vile, cynical people—but at
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the same time,
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really,
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either half the prosecutor’s office knew that he had
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property in Montenegro, or
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they were writing to FBK about it. We started checking it,
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and discovered that yes, it was all true. So now we’re
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at the part of our story
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called: “The family of the brazen
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prosecutor built up elite real estate all across Montenegro
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worth many millions
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of dollars.” And really, at this point you’d
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like to put a period here, because where else
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could this possibly go? But then we found a photo with
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a monkey. Remember why I was whispering while sitting
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on the balcony of the seaside hotel? Because
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in the next room at the time there was
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the female manager—she’s a friend of the family
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of our prosecutor Denis Popov—and in her
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social media we found a large
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number of photos of them together.
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But the interesting thing was that most
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of them were taken not here in
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Montenegro, but in Spain. So we decided
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we needed to look into Spain.
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Hi everyone, this is Georgy Alburov, and I’m in
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Spain. I was sent here to find out whether our beloved
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prosecutor has any real estate here.
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They gave me a photo with
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a monkey and a kind word to take with me. Well, probably
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that’s not much to go on, but fortunately
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I got help from one young
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layabout.
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Why are you like this? I don’t know.
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How painful it is to be.
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The young layabout’s name is Yevgeny Popov.
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He is the 21-year-old son of our
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prosecutor, and as befits the child
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of a public official whose job consists
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entirely of accusing everyone
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around him of being foreign agents,
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this kid is sitting somewhere in a Spanish
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apartment—but sitting there in a very
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patriotic way, using
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a Russian flag as a drape.
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He’s also vaping and reflecting on life.
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We start watching this video over and over again,
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and despite the fact that
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our eyes and ears are practically bleeding,
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we still manage to notice that the young
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layabout walks out of a house we had
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already seen before, in the same album as
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the photo with the monkey. The album is called
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“Spain 2010.” This shot shows the same
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house. Here’s another photo from there: the wife
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of Prosecutor Popov, Irina, their daughter, and
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the manager of the Montenegrin hotel
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are standing in the same place. Or here’s another interesting
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detail:
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Prosecutor Popov’s son is dancing, and we know for sure
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that he’s doing it in his own home.
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We see the same painting and the same interior in
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the Popov family photo albums. Now we have
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not the slightest doubt that
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they own real estate here, and we
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simply order land registry records and extracts for
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everyone with the surname Popov and Popova.
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Cities, my hometowns.
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Sometimes Moscow too, but here, señor...
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Mr. Popov, we have found your family's townhouse
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in the city of Marbella.
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Here it is. Prosecutor Popov's unemployed wife, Irina,
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Popova bought it in 2010 for 645
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thousand euros. For another two years, while you had not yet
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fully advanced—I don't know whether effectively or not—
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you did not declare your family's foreign
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real estate. For that, you should
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be dismissed immediately. There is simply no
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other option. This is what Denis Popov
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risked his prosecutorial career for.
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A beautiful 225-square-meter townhouse (about 2,420 sq ft), just
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200 meters (about 220 yards) from the sea, in a great residential
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complex with four-story buildings featuring
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terraces and balconies, and in the middle
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a swimming pool, ponds, and a garden. Truly
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beautiful, no question about it. Yes, as an investment
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for old age, not the worst choice. Now a place like this
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costs around 1 million euros, well,
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at least. Here are the listings—
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look for yourselves: 850 thousand euros for a much
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more modest home. That's the kind of
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prosecutor's case you have now seen with your own eyes.
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[music]
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Just now, my friend and I spent
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half an hour throwing stones
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to knock our drone down from this palm tree.
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Look how high up it is here...
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Our hero who got it stuck
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in the palm tree managed to throw a stone 12
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meters (about 39 feet) up—or thereabouts. Before that,
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we threw a whole pile of stones. And finally,
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we knocked it down. I have a personal question for
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everyone watching this video.
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Just look.
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In 2010, Prosecutor Popov was serving
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as the inter-district prosecutor of Izmailovo, and
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a little later that same year he became
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prosecutor of Moscow's Central District.
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His salary that year was 60,000 rubles a
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month. At around the same time, and for roughly
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the same money, I got a job at the Anti-Corruption Foundation
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with Navalny.
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Years passed, the prosecutor remained in
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public service,
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and with roughly the same level of income
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he acquired a wonderful, enormous
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townhouse in Marbella,
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while I continue to live in a rented apartment. He
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couldn't even find any kind of
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real estate or property of mine
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to seize under his 2.3 million-ruble claim
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(about 2.3 million rubles).
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which he filed against me for organizing
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a rally. And in fact, it was over this phrase
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that he wants to recover
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2.3 million rubles from me:
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"Come to the rally in the city center on August 3.
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"
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Here's the Facebook group, right there in the description,
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with a link to it as well.
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But listen, if for that you want to recover
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2.3 million rubles from me,
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then I believe you should immediately
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head off to Montenegro and Spain
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for that huge undeclared
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townhouse, and for the Rublyovka property (an elite area outside Moscow) that we are about to
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show now.
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In fact, there is one thing
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I would very much like
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to see arrested.
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Arrested, yes. Dear crook
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and thief Denis Popov, there is one thing worth
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arresting: Georgy's collection of Hawaiian
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shirts, and I want them to be
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seized.
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A ban should be imposed on Georgy so that he
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never wears them again, because whenever we
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go somewhere, we try to be
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less noticeable—I wear a cap and glasses, while
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Georgy walks around in a Hawaiian shirt,
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drawing the attention of everyone within
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a 500-meter radius (about 550 yards). A bit dreary,
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I understand: no sea, no palm tree, no
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Mediterranean scenery nearby—what can you do?
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Such are the harsh realities of Prosecutor
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Popov's work. You can't sit in Marbella all
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year long—Muscovites won't jail themselves.
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So sometimes you have to work in
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harsh conditions too.
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On Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway, we fly up to
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the country house that Prosecutor Denis Popov
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conceals just as carefully as his
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foreign assets. Oh, look at this lovely
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little Mediterranean touch here—
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a rooftop pool.
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Let's inspect the estate. We see
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the main house: 660 square meters (about 7,100 sq ft), four stories tall.
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Behind it there is something like a gazebo with
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columns.
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And of course the second house is impressive too—
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380 square meters (about 4,090 sq ft), with a full underground floor and
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a rooftop pool. Why be shy?
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Let's take a closer look—
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let's walk around the grounds. Everything is very
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neat and well maintained. Construction began
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relatively recently and was completed in 2014.
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And do you know who the official owner of this
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far from modest Rublyovka dacha (country house) is?
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Prosecutor Popov's mother, Lyudmila Mikhailovna. She is
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79 years old. And when it's registered in the mother's name,
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there is no need to declare it, and no one
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will ask where the money came from. Very convenient.
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So now it is completely obvious to us that
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Prosecutor Denis Popov loves registering everything
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in other people's names. It's
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just like a Soviet classic—remember
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the film *Beware of the Car*?
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"Registered in my wife's name, of course—nothing is in your name,
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and that may come in handy." It's the same with
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our prosecutor Denis Popov: he registers everything
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to relatives—his mother, his wife, his
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ex-wife.
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The car he drove in 2010
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was registered to his personal driver.
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the phone, but overall it is registered to that very same
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manager of the Montenegrin hotel
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the one I was whispering about, remember?
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the car he drives—in 2015,
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already several years after
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their supposed divorce—it belongs to his ex-
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wife.
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But Popov drives it, and the parking fees
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are paid by Popov from his mobile phone.
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And speaking of the ex-wife
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of our prosecutor, we discover yet another
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very strange and unusual asset.
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Why unusual? Think about it: a woman
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with two children lives permanently in
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Marbella, Spain,
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but at the same time she apparently really needs
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a fishing resort in Astrakhan. Getting there
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is harder than getting to Marbella,
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but nevertheless, here we are:
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Astrakhan Region, 200 kilometers (124 miles)
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from Astrakhan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) from
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Volgograd—a whole fishing resort, and also
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a leisure complex on the riverbank. There are lots of
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cottages and cabins here, plus a hotel,
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a restaurant, a tennis court,
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a swimming pool—all of it on 1.5 hectares
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of land.
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And of course, it has everything needed
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for year-round fishing. The owner
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of this estate
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—it is literally called the Nikolskaya Estate—
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is Irina Popova,
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the prosecutor’s ex-wife from Marbella. As in
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the case of Montenegro,
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any of you can stay here, and for
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2,000 rubles, the cabin is yours.
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After that, it’s a real paradise for any fisherman.
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Let’s just look at the photos right
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on the resort’s website: you can fish in summer
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and in winter too—wow, what fish. And here’s another one—
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oh, and who’s that? Why, it’s our prosecutor
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Popov.
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Let’s fly once more over beautiful autumn
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Russia and remember one important fact:
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at exactly the same time as we were filming
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all this, news came out that
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Moscow prosecutor Popov had conducted a review of
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our own investigation into the head of
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United Russia in the capital, Metelsky.
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Remember, we found several
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hotels in Austria linked to Metelsky, and now the prosecutor
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officially declares
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that there were no violations.
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Now you understand better why. How
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could he possibly object to hotels in
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Austria bought with corrupt
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money if he himself used corrupt
25:28
money to build a hotel in Montenegro?
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That is how the entire power vertical is built: Popov
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has no complaints about Metelsky,
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Prosecutor General Chaika has no complaints about
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his subordinate Popov, because in
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Chaika’s own family we found
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real estate in Switzerland and Greece. The head
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of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin, will never
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ask about the origin of the money of either
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Chaika or Popov, because FBK published
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documents showing that Bastrykin himself had
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real estate and a residence permit in the Czech Republic.
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And above all of them is Putin, who
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is very pleased with all his subordinates,
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because when everyone around you is compromised, it becomes
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much easier to steal the biggest
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chunks for yourself.
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Everything is very clear and specific. We came out
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of my apartment and came back down here
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into the courtyard, and here I want to ask you for
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help, because they have television,
26:22
and through that television they
26:25
brainwash the whole country, saying
26:27
that in the so-called Moscow Case (the prosecutions over Moscow protest actions), people are being imprisoned for
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taking part in rallies, and that this is right, that they are
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rightly being jailed by prosecutor Denis Popov,
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who is supposedly an honest man with
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a badge for honest prosecutorial
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service. And they say that
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we are foreign agents, and they
26:44
say that the endless
26:47
searches of our offices
26:49
are all proper and justified, and a huge
26:52
number of people believe it.
26:54
But through you, all these people must learn
26:58
that this Denis Popov is, excuse me, simply
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a bastard who has two hotels in
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Montenegro, a townhouse in Spain, a gigantic
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estate on Rublyovka (an elite, wealthy area outside Moscow), an entire fishing
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resort on the banks of the Volga. He bought all of it with
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obviously corrupt money. He hid all of it,
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he uses all of it, and then he
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goes around saying that we are the foreign
27:19
agents. And it was Putin who appointed this Popov, and
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Putin is responsible for all of this.
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And just watch: if some brave
27:25
journalist is found who asks him,
27:28
“Where did Denis Popov get his property from?”
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Putin, at his press conference, will
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mumble just as he mumbled when he
27:35
was asked about Prosecutor General Chaika after
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our investigation into Chaika’s business empire.
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“As for Chaika, as for…”
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I ask every viewer of this video
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to use your most powerful resource:
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27:58
of people learn about the thieves, liars, and
28:01
hypocrites sitting in the Kremlin and in
28:03
the prosecutor’s office. If you support us,
28:06
the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK),
28:07
say something good about us on your
28:09
social media. We need your
28:11
support. Most importantly, those people who
28:14
are now sitting in prison completely innocently
28:17
simply because they went out to
28:19
peaceful rallies—they need our support.
28:21
Support
28:22
these people, and ask everyone to compare, on
28:27
the one hand, the people being jailed, and on the other, the man jailing them, with
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his hotels bought with stolen money.
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property on the other side.
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Ordinary, honest people—I am sure that,
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no matter what political views
28:37
a person may hold—this comparison
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between thieves and crooks on one side
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hypocrites with foreign property, and
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ordinary honest people who simply
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took part in peaceful rallies—this
28:49
comparison will always favor the good
28:51
and go against the bad.
28:52
Subscribe to our channel—this is where
28:54
the truth is told. Oh, I completely forgot—we
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are now “foreign agents” and are required to label all
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of our content, including videos,
29:02
with the words “foreign agent.” We
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will do it if Putin wants it
29:08
so badly, but we will put this “foreign agent” label
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on the forehead of the official
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who actually is
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a foreign agent. And this time,
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the wonderful stamp goes on the forehead of Denis
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Popov.
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[music]
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There you go.