Shuvalov’s son outdid Peskov’s wife and Neverov’s mother-in-law

Hi, this is Alexei Navalny, and today I

am trying out a new format for myself: video.

Um...

So, Igor Shuvalov, Russia's deputy prime minister,

of the Russian government, and at the same time

also a thief, a bribe-taker, and

a corrupt official, thought long and hard, but finally decided

to respond to the latest

investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK),

in which we accused him of having

an undeclared airplane

worth $52 million, and we

established that Shuvalov had become so

brazen that he was even flying his dogs

to dog shows around the world on

that plane. We transport our dogs on our own plane, a

declared one, to shows

of, by the way, international

caliber, to defend Russia's honor. Unfortunately,

Shuvalov did not dare respond to us personally, but

instead invited the editor-in-chief

of the radio station Echo of Moscow, Alexei

Alekseyevich Venediktov. According to

Venediktov, they met, looked over

the documents, sorted everything out with lawyers,

and concluded that Shuvalov was 100% not at fault, and

more than that, all the facts in the FBK investigation

were absolutely true, but overall

Shuvalov was not guilty. And so the

Shuvalov family decided to gift, once

again, this company called

Altitude—to gift this company to their

adult

son, Yevgeny. I saw the deed of sale, and

as they used to say in the newsroom,

they know that name, yes—on July 31.

2013, this

transaction was completed. So, again, it was not the plane,

but the company within which

the plane was held, that was gifted

by the parents to their adult son,

Yevgeny. Thus, Olga

and Igor Shuvalov no longer had this plane, this

company, this plane, and

they were not required to declare it

because it belonged to their

adult—I emphasize, adult—

son, who had already served

in the military, as you may remember, in the

Pacific Fleet. So that was the gift they made. Well, listen, honestly,

I honestly

don't even know how this can be

commented on better than with this

gesture.

Translated into plain

human language, this statement is very simple: we

consider all Russian citizens idiots

who can be fed any nonsense

and will believe it. Seriously: he bought

a plane, gave it to his son, and then

rents the plane back from his son, and even

proudly declares: I'm not just renting

this plane, I'm paying my own

son for the leased

plane. There is a contract, I saw it,

again, between this company,

Altitude, and the private individuals Olga

Shuvalova and Igor Shuvalov, stating that

according to—let me look at the text—yes,

this plane serves them for

money, and I saw

the invoices issued—now attention—not by

the company itself, but by Global Jet,

which operates hundreds of private

aircraft, as you know, yes, Global Jet,

hundreds of private aircraft.

Invoices for payment were issued, and from

their personal accounts—again, personal accounts—

Igor Shuvalov when he flies, and Olga

Shuvalova when she flies, from bank accounts

held at VTB Bank, yes, from their personal

accounts,

they pay for these very flights. This

is just priceless, not an explanation. We've

already had Putin's press secretary, Mr.

Peskov, when FBK wrote about his watch

worth $480,000, and he

excused himself by saying the watch had been given to him by his

wife. It was very funny. Then there was United Russia leader

Sergei Neverov: we found

this estate belonging to him, worth millions of

rubles, and he said, 'My mother-in-law bought it'

after selling a two-room apartment in Novokuznetsk. And now

we have the new leaders of the hit parade

of crooks' excuses: Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov

and his son Yevgeny, who rents him

the family plane. Legally, all this

does not stand up to the slightest criticism. Under

the law, an official is required to declare

property such as an airplane if he

uses it. So Shuvalov can

give his plane to his son, his daughter, his

corgi dogs, or he can simply go out into the

street and give that plane to any

homeless person he meets. But if he

continues to use the plane, to fly

on it, then he is obliged to declare it

so that any citizen of Russia

can look at the declarations and see: oh,

this particular official flies on a

private plane. That is the whole point

of disclosure. And here's an even funnier

moment: Alexei Venediktov, apparently without

realizing it, seems to have set Shuvalov up

even more, because he revealed the exact

dates of the purchase and sale of the plane. In 2009,

.

the Shuvalovs—Olga and Igor—or rather, their

offshore company through which the

plane was purchased, owned this plane and

it was operated. And then the

Shuvalov family decided to gift, once

again, this company called

Altitude—to gift this company

to their adult

son, Yevgeny. I saw the deed of sale, and as

they used to say in the newsroom,

they know that name, yes—on July 31.

This deal was completed in 2013. So,

pay attention: they bought the plane and started using it

in 2009, and gave it to their son in

2013. That means, by Shuvalov's own logic,

from 2009 to 2013, the plane

should have been listed in the disclosure. The disclosure

for this official has been publicly available since 2008.

You can click the link yourself and

see: in not a single disclosure, not

for any year, is the plane listed anywhere. And that

means Shuvalov was lying. And the punishment

for a false disclosure is very simple and

clear: immediate removal from

office. And really, there ought to

be a criminal investigation into where

Shuvalov got the money for such a lavish lifestyle. Wh-

is that his business? No, it's ours. And finally, one last but very

important point about the hypocrisy of this representative

of the authorities. Just look: in that same

2013, Shuvalov was giving interviews

to journalists and saying that he was moving all

his money abroad so that

his heirs would not be able to use it,

so they would grow up like ordinary people, not sit

on the neck of a rich father who is a government official. At the same time,

he also declared that his son had even gone into the army

and the whole country was apparently supposed to

tear up with emotion, and all the journalists

started saying to each other, well, look

he may be a United Russia party member, but still a decent man

— sent his son to the army, his children are growing up so modestly.

And now it turns out that at exactly

the same time when he was giving those

interviews, he gave his son a plane

worth $52 million. That's, by the way, 3 billion rubles.

And now his son leases out that

plane and makes money from it. So this is what

they call “earning it yourself.” Well,

that is my video response to Deputy Prime Minister

Shuvalov and journalist Alexei

Venediktov. And you can help us

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