The Hidden Wealth of Moscow’s Leading United Russia Politician

On September 8, 2019

elections will be held

to the Moscow

City Duma.

I can't force you to do anything,

but I can try to persuade you.

If I want you, right now,

to go and sign in support of independent

candidates

and then, on September 8, at the election,

vote against United Russia.

Well, that means in this video I have to

provide a sufficient number of

arguments in favor of doing that, and

it's impossible to just make yet another

investigation about yet another United Russia politician.

If I'm calling for a major campaign

against all of United Russia, then I need to take

the leader of this party in Moscow, where the main

elections will be held, and use his example to show

why his party does not deserve

a single vote. And right now, together with

my colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Foundation

(FBK), I will do exactly that, and I will begin my

story here, in a place so close

dear and native to this representative

of the ruling party. His heart is here, here are

his family, and here is his money.

Welcome to the Golyanovo district.

[music]

Well, almost Golyanovo.

Hi, this is Navalny, and these are candidates for

seats in the Moscow City Duma, and

today, all together, we'll convince you that we

first need to put our

signatures behind these candidates—and not

put it off, but do it right now—and then

join forces and throw the party

United Russia out of the Moscow parliament.

Here he is, the face of this party, the head of United

Russia in Moscow, deputy chairman of the

Moscow City Duma, and possibly the most influential

deputy in the Moscow parliament, elected

from the districts of Severnoye Izmaylovo, Golyanovo,

Vostochny, and Metrogorodok: Andrei Nikolaevich

Metelsky.

He personifies the Moscow Duma and

Moscow's party of power, and today we put before you

one simple question:

Should Metelsky

and people like him remain in their positions,

or on September 8, at the election, should he be

replaced by these deputies? And so, I didn't say for nothing

that he is not just a leader, but

the embodiment of United Russia. Deputy

Metelsky has held his seat for 18

years—four consecutive terms. Now he

wants to become a deputy for the fifth time, for

the next five years. And the funniest thing is that

the top United Russia figure in Moscow, the secretary

of the Moscow branch, a member of the presidium

of the general council, is running not

from the party he leads

but as an independent candidate.

Just like all the other

United Russia candidates in Moscow. They want to deceive

you by pretending to be independents. Let me

tell you a little about him. He is a

remarkable character, like practically

all the other United Russia politicians. For 18 years he has

headed the party of power in Moscow. That is,

he is a major regional

official with a status not much lower

than Sobyanin's. In theory, he should be

everywhere. But the problem is that Metelsky

simply does not exist in the public sphere.

He gives no interviews,

no comments to the media.

It's unlikely anyone has seen him walking around

courtyards and meeting with residents. He

has not reacted in any way to any of the pressing

issues on our public agenda—things like,

I don't know, protests in Moscow, the raising

of the retirement age, the notorious

renovation program, and so on. Well, maybe he is a

famous YouTube video blogger? And

actually, he does have a YouTube channel,

but it has 0 subscribers and only one

video view—and that was when I was

preparing this. And that's not surprising, because,

as they like to say in the Moscow city government,

of Moscow,

money loves silence. And that's exactly what I want

to talk about. How do you learn about an official's life,

what he lives on? Of course, from

his financial disclosure. I printed out Metelsky's disclosure.

On paper, he seems to have a decent income: 7

million rubles (about $110,000 at the time), but at the same time

he owns no property, no real estate—only

either official housing or rented accommodation.

No apartments, no cars. Maybe his wife is an

oligarch?

No, not that either. In 2018 she

earned 900 rubles a month (about $14 at the time).

All right, you can probably already guess

where this is going: a poor deputy, his whole life

in public service. Surely we won't find a dacha on

Rublyovka (an elite suburb outside Moscow) or a penthouse in central Moscow, right?

No, friends, this story is not only—and not even mainly—

about one particular deputy. Our

investigation is about power in general, about

the United Russia party, and about how

this system works.

If we turn on the television, we see these

people as ardent patriots who

swear their love for the motherland.

But in practice, they loot our

country and move billions abroad,

preparing backup airfields and a quiet

retirement for themselves

and their relatives somewhere far away. And so the

leader of Moscow's United Russia politicians, according to

official documents, is a poor

independent candidate, a servant of the people for more than

twenty years. But in reality he is one of

the richest residents of Moscow—a businessman,

a fraudster, a corrupt official, who

before the election hides behind a zero-profile image.

in his income and asset declarations, while in fact

he owns assets worth hundreds

of millions of dollars. And before we

show you what our United Russia politician has made off with

in his little beak, let’s get acquainted with

all the participants in our journey.

Metelsky’s mother, Eldebita Vasilievna.

Metelskaya. She is 75 years old.

Andrei Andreyevich Metelsky. Yesterday he

turned 26.

And Metelsky’s main friend,

Pyotr Sergeyevich Ivanovsky.

This Ivanovsky, as he is called by

Metelsky, “my longtime friend,” was also

a deputy in the Moscow City Duma, then he became

vice president of the United Russia Support Fund

in Moscow—believe it or not, such a

fund exists. And now he is an adviser to the deputy speaker

of the Moscow City Duma—that is, to Metelsky himself.

He is listed on the website, and that is, basically,

the whole cast of characters that will concern us today,

because the scheme

is primitive to the point of absurdity. Now

let’s move from Moscow, where United Russia politicians

make money, to the notorious Europe

where our party of power loves

to spend it. We’re flying to Austria.

[music]

Welcome to Tyrol.

This is the very heart of Europe—the Austrian

Alps, places of incredible beauty.

Here, right here—not in some

Izmailovo, Metrogorodok, or

Golyanovo—he prefers to live and keep

his money.

United Russia politician Metelsky—his Austrian

life began much earlier than you

might think.

Twelve years ago, in 2007, when there were still no

sanctions, wars, or international

isolation, when Putin had not even yet

finished his second term,

and Moscow’s mayor was not Sobyanin but Luzhkov,

it was then, in 2007, that deputy

Metelsky made a key decision:

to stash everything he stole in Russia

abroad. How, where, and how much?

To answer these questions, we are

setting off on a little...

[music]

We are in an Austrian village called

Serfaus.

An amazing place, very beautiful.

See for yourselves. And it is here that Andrei

Metelsky proves that United Russia

is a party of action. If you found yourself in a place like this,

of course you would walk around, look at everything, and

say, “It would be nice to have a house here.”

But he doesn’t walk around and say it—he simply

goes ahead and buys.

That hotel over there—look how

nice it is: the four-star Hotel Maximilian,

with its own pool and spa area.

Metelsky paid 5 million

euros for it, even though at that moment he

had absolutely nothing to his name except

a deputy’s salary and his mother’s pension.

You can be sure that those five

million were far from the family’s last

savings. We continue our journey through the Metelskys’

Austrian holdings.

Fortunately, we won’t have to travel far—

or rather, we won’t have to travel

at all.

Alexei, where are we going? We already filmed everything in Metrogorodok.

Where are we going, Georgy?

Metelsky is a deputy from that district.

But in fact, we are filming

an investigation into the leader of this party in

Moscow. Do you seriously

think that such an important man

could have only one hotel in this

town? No. Exactly one year after

buying the first hotel, Maximilian, the

Metelskys decided to expand their holdings

with this building: traditional Tyrolean

architecture, a small hotel, and inside it

its own restaurant.

Let’s go in—no need to be shy.

Near the entrance, if you’ve been skiing

or just walking in the Alps and got tired, no

problem: the hospitable Andrei Metelsky

is ready to offer you the terrace of his

hotel restaurant.

He bought it for 3.5 million

euros. Again, it is unknown where he got

the money. But he bought it and enjoys this

property: a magnificent view, you sit there

drinking coffee,

while United Russia politician Metelsky collects the money.

And now let’s look at all this again from above. There,

on that terrace, I was just standing there—that is

the restaurant terrace, and above it

is, accordingly, the hotel.

And if we fly a little farther over

this mountain village, we will see how

close by Metelsky’s other hotel is.

There it is. And here are photos from

the social media of Metelsky’s wife, Tatyana.

They were taken right here, in Serfaus.

This New Year holiday, the Metelskys

spent in their Austrian hotel,

as they did dozens of weekends over the course

of the years. Of course, we would like to show you

more of these beautiful views, but we

really can’t linger, because ahead of us

there are still several more stops in

Austria. There’s no time to waste.

Yes, of course, we understand that deputy

Metelsky will tell us, “You know,

I understand, but it belongs to my mother, it belongs to my son.”

Indeed, he registered all of it in the names of his

very elderly mother and his

not-yet-fully-grown son. But the point is

that this is a simple scheme. For this

investigation, we did not need to uncover

any complicated offshore structures or anything

like that. It’s a simple setup there...

Russian individuals linked to Metelsky

set up Austrian companies. These

Austrian companies bought a large

amount of real estate, and the brazen simplicity

of this scheme once again shows the sheer audacity

of United Russia. In other words, he simply

doesn’t even think he needs to hide.

There is a monument on Tyrolean soil

to the little castling move. Remember September 24, 2011,

when Medvedev and Putin announced that

they were switching places and Putin would once again

become president?

United Russia was jubilant, practically squealing

with delight: “Putin is back, Putin is back!”

And Andrei Metelsky was shouting and applauding

louder than anyone else.

And then, three days later, on the 27th, somehow, from who knows where,

he got 7 million euros and bought this

hotel in the Alps—his third one already. We’re

flying over a mountain river and

approaching Metelsky’s third hotel,

Mozart.

It’s a traditional Tyrolean hotel.

At the level of the fifth floor, sticking out of the hotel,

is a strange-looking pipe, and our

theory is that

the other end of the pipe was plugged directly into

the budget of the city of Moscow

to make it easier for United Russia

to siphon money out of the country. Though, of course, it

could also just be a waterslide.

Tennis courts, a football field, a swimming pool—

it’s fun and great here at any time of

year.

I really hope you’re not tired of

Austria yet, because you and I still have

another 600 kilometers (about 373 miles) to go to Vienna, where

Metelsky has yet another property.

[music]

We stopped at a gas station to grab

some coffee because, honestly, we’re

pretty damn sick of driving all across

Austria. If you drove several hundred

kilometers in search of the real estate of a United Russia

big shot, it would be funny if

all Muscovites knew just how much he owns

here, from Tyrol to Vienna.

Though they probably wouldn’t

vote for him after that. So not funny—

fair enough. I hope that many

millions of Muscovites learn about

this man’s real estate from our

video. So if you’re watching it,

share it, subscribe—

and by the way, we can also

drive up to Metelsky’s next hotel,

walk over, and sort of smear something on the

door handle and watch the reaction

of his assorted staff.

We’ll be right here.

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Girl 1

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The hotel and palace here are

a historic building. Now let me

tell you a little about it. Remember how

World War I began? Sarajevo—

the Austrian archduke was assassinated, and the Austrians

presented the Serbs with an ultimatum that was deliberately

impossible to fulfill. They didn’t fulfill it,

and that, essentially, is how the war began.

The famous July Ultimatum was

signed in this very building. It is

historic.

And nearby there’s a staircase; now we’re going to

walk along it. It’s historic too,

known to every resident of Vienna; people have even

written poems about it.

By the way, while we’re heading to the staircase, I

also want to say that this same building

hosted the famous arms-control negotiations

between the USSR and the USA. It’s a very

historic building; so much has

happened here. Naturally, at one time

the palace belonged to members of the royal

family, but now this entire complex—the palace,

the hotel, and the surrounding

grounds—belongs to the Russian aristocracy.

The head of United Russia in Moscow,

Andrei Metelsky, bought all of this

for 13 million euros. Look

at this amusing detail: you know how on

hotel facades they very often hang

different national flags?

This hotel was bought with money stolen

in Russia and taken out of Russia, and yet here we see

here

the American flag, the European Union flag, the French

flag, the Italian one, I think—

but no Russian flag. How can that be, Deputy Metelsky?

Well, Milov promised that we

would fly to Austria, but in the end, for some reason,

only Alexei went there. Well, that’s because you’re

the candidate—you’re supposed to work in the field,

while I took on the hardest part

of the job. Guys, you can’t imagine how

painful, truly painful, it was for me to look at all

these Austrian palaces built with

money stolen in Russia. But let’s

sum up the financial results of this Austrian

story. In total, about 40 million euros were invested

in Austrian hotels.

By Metelsky himself,

his pensioner grandmother, a 19-year-old young man, and

some deputy who, at that

time, let’s say, was earning maybe two

million rubles. And by the way, from the financial

statements we learn that later

Metelsky and company poured another 12 million

euros into this business—that is, they effectively took money out of

Russia and invested it in Austria.

Well, we’ve already looked at Austria, but if anyone

thinks that Metelsky wasn’t also trying

to make money off construction and real estate in Moscow,

they’re mistaken. And now you’re going to see

the most astonishing part of our

investigation,

from which you’ll learn how Metelsky and his

his mother receives hundreds

of millions into her accounts. Here we are flying over a huge

plot in central Moscow, in Zamoskvorechye

right on the embankment of the Moskva River — prime

land not far from Paveletsky Station.

In 2014, they decided to build here

a hotel and serviced residential apartments.

As you can clearly see, there is no hotel at all, but

according to the plan, by 2021 buildings will be erected here

with a total area of 14,500 square meters

(about 156,000 square feet), and by that time it will all be completed.

By then, the nearly 80-year-old mother of the deputy

Metelsky will be the owner of this land.

Right now we are standing by the construction

fence. Behind it is a huge area where

at first glance, right now

absolutely nothing seems to be happening. From the standpoint

of the hotel project,

that is completely true. Development plans for

this site appeared in 2014.

They even began demolishing a building to clear the site,

but over the next several years, nothing

happened. Now the deadlines have been pushed back significantly.

On the Moscow City Hall website, you can

find the project listing for this construction site and the new

deadlines.

The new completion date is 2021. The developer listed there

is OOO Manor. This company formally

belongs half, but in practice entirely,

to

Lyubov Metelskaya. This company is what opened for us

a portal into the inexhaustible wealth of the

Metelsky family. We will definitely talk about

that a little later, but for now let's

see what else is here. We have reached

the only clearly functioning

building on the entire site: Kozhevnicheskaya

15. This building has great historical

value. It is included in nearly all

lists of Moscow constructivist landmarks.

Moscow.

That is thanks to this round frieze made of

majolica tiles, on which

Soviet ideals are depicted: harvesting,

athletes, and bathers. This used to house

the

Kozhevniki baths, and now it is a fitness center.

The historic building itself belongs

to Lyubov Metelskaya's company.

This is also the company's registered address.

Altogether, behind these fences there are 12,000

square meters of land ready for development. I

think many of our viewers are asking:

why was the hotel never built?

Why has a hugely valuable plot in central Moscow

been sitting idle for five years already, and

why will it remain idle for at least three more years

until 2021? I have an answer to that question,

and it is an astonishing example of how United Russia members

make money. In fact, Lyubov

Metelskaya takes money for the hotel

project, and then simply keeps that money

for herself. Listen, let's stop

talking about this unfortunate 75-year-old

woman. It's obvious to everyone that she has

nothing to do with this scheme. It's simply that

Metelsky brazenly and shamelessly

transferred everything into his elderly mother's name,

incidentally exposing her to serious legal

liability — effectively throwing her under the bus.

Practically anyone else in her place, if not for the fact that

Lyubov Metelskaya's son is a United Russia politician and

deputy, would already be in prison on economic-crime

charges. If you type into any search engine

the name

Lyubov Metelskaya — you don't even need the surname,

just type in "Lyubov" — then

you will find links to dozens of rulings by the

Moscow Arbitration Court. We

studied them carefully. These documents are unprecedented

in their content. The essence of the case

is simple: the "businesswoman"

Lyubov Metelskaya

decided to build a huge hotel in

central Moscow. But she chose to do it

not with her own money, but with money

from outside partners and attracted

investors.

They all invested large sums in her company

Manor, and then she simply took that money and

stole it — transferring it to her own personal account,

to the personal account of her son, deputy Metelsky,

and, as is classic in such cases, a large share

was moved offshore. Helping her do this

was Manor director Vyacheslav Kapustin. I would not

have mentioned him if not for

one amusing detail: he is Metelsky's neighbor

on the same stairwell, and also the son

of another Moscow City Duma deputy from Izmailovo,

Andrei Kapustin. And by the way,

Metelskaya's business partners

were, to put it mildly, not very pleased

with what was happening. Hence the numerous

court filings, and thanks to those

filings, we know this entire scheme in documented detail,

down to every account number

and every transfer.

We know the whole scheme, and by the way, these

details are very interesting. In total,

more than 1.4 billion rubles

(about 1.4 billion rubles) passed through Manor's accounts over time.

Of that amount, 270 million rubles were transferred

to the personal accounts of Lyubov and

Metelsky under various

investment agreements and loan

contracts. Another 305 million was transferred

personally to deputy Andrei Metelsky. Thus,

a total of 575 million rubles

ended up in the accounts of Moscow's chief

United Russia politician.

This is unbelievable. Am I understanding correctly that with

an official deputy's salary of 5

million rubles, Metelsky, together with

his mother, borrowed from their own company

nearly 600 million rubles, but

would have to repay it over 120 years

and would only finish repaying it in 2133? And let me remind you that

not a single kopeck of these hundreds of millions

rubles

Metelsky did not disclose this in his declarations.

He was moving enormous sums of money around, while

telling voters that he was an honest

deputy.

that he had nothing besides his salary. And here it is important

to emphasize one more thing: court

rulings have effectively confirmed that

these loans were fictitious and non-market, that they

were unsecured, and that the interest rates

on them were many times below market rates—and you would never

be able to get loans like that. And in fact,

the repayment terms were impossible to meet, and so essentially

the Moscow court—not even us,

but the court itself—effectively ruled that the chief

United Russia figure in Moscow

But that is not all. The remaining money

that was not siphoned off into fictitious

accounts by Metelsky was transferred to

a Cypriot offshore company—that is, $22 million

dollars, which comes to about 750

million rubles.

It was sent to accounts belonging to the family

on a Cypriot offshore account. And in court,

the director of Manara—the same neighbor of Metelsky

from the same landing in their apartment building—stated that

the money was moved to Cyprus allegedly in order

to purchase a neighboring plot of land.

But that is actually a lie, because

that plot was already in their

ownership. Or rather, not exactly that word—earlier, in fact,

this asset

to whose account the

$22 million was transferred at that very moment

owned the Venice hotel that Alexei had told us about,

and this whole transfer of $22

million looks very much like

Metelsky was, let's say it plainly, trying to steal

money from his partners. This should go straight onto

campaign leaflets. It should read something like:

"Sign for our candidate—he

borrowed 570 million and never paid it back.

United Russia—the party of real deeds.

An excellent candidate, a true

—or an independent candidate, of course.

An independent candidate backed by United Russia.

Friends, we've gotten so carried away with this

hotel story that we still haven't told even half

of it. Let's move

on. We took a close look at what else

belongs to Metelsky. We simply took

the legal entities register and looked through it,

made a list of all

directors, partners, nominees, and other

people involved in organizing this

underground business empire. The scheme

turned out not to be very complicated. These companies

that had at one time or another belonged to Metelsky—

he transferred them to two people, because formally

he is not allowed

to engage in business. These people are Flama

and Metelsky's friend and adviser in the Moscow

City Duma, Pyotr Ivanovsky. This is very

easy to discover and prove. We

took a list of 12 companies that

had at some point belonged to Metelsky

as property.

In 7 of them, the stake—down to the exact percentage—

was transferred to Metelskaya.

In 5, the stake was registered to Pyotr Ivanovsky.

There are simply no other people involved. Most

of their companies were registered at three

addresses, and all three premises belong

to Metelsky and his associates. Listen, it really looks like

they are not trying very hard to hide.

And it is enough simply to study

the combination of addresses and their owners to

learn a lot more interesting things. Behind

me is a huge construction site. Here they are

building the Lefortovo transport interchange hub.

Lefortovo.

These kinds of hubs are places where

metro lines, suburban trains, buses, and

trolleybuses all come together. And these transport

interchange hubs have become a signature

personal project of Sobyanin for Moscow. In

such places it is very profitable to develop

businesses: shopping centers are built here,

park-and-ride lots, because

the enormous passenger flow—hundreds of thousands

of people every day—guarantees huge

profits. So this particular

Lefortovo hub

is being built by the Metelsky family. We rise above

the impressive construction site. This is strange,

because Moscow Deputy Mayor Khusnullin

claimed that the hub would open in 2018,

but here we are in mid-2019,

and you can see everything for yourselves. The development rights were

bought from the Moscow city government at auction for

100 million rubles—money that, as we already understand, is

laughable by Metelsky's standards.

A trivial sum.

But a great deal will be built here:

there will be an ice rink, a renovated movie theater,

restaurants, and of course commercial

real estate for shops. And most

interesting of all, we fly a little away from the site and

see a brand-new, attractive residential

complex.

The Lefort residential complex: two buildings have already been completed,

a third is being prepared, for a total of 600 apartments.

It has its own infrastructure, underground

parking, shops, and landscaped

grounds. You probably think that I am

about to say that the Metelskys have

a luxurious penthouse in this building

or that the Metelskys bought 10

apartments in this building.

No—they own this entire residential

complex.

They are the developers; their company built all of this,

and now they are selling it. Now look:

the official developer of the residential buildings

at Lefort is the company

Inter Flora. According to an announcement

on the Moscow city government's website, they are also

the builder of the transport interchange hub.

of the hub at the metro station, this is an absolutely

unknown developer. Before this, they had not

built anything in Moscow at all. So let’s take a look

carefully at who these developers are, who seem to have come from nowhere

at all. Until 2015, the company

was entirely owned by the same

Lyubov Metelskaya. Then she transferred her share, according to the scheme we mentioned,

to

Ivanovsky. The director is a familiar figure to us — a neighbor

of the Metelskys on the same stairwell landing.

Kapustin — and let me remind you, he is also the director of

another Metelsky company, the one building

a hotel near Paveletskaya, which they

deliberately bankrupted so they would not have to

return the investor’s money. We have already

talked about this. In other words, these are all the same

old faces — not a single new surname,

of course. And in the end, our modest Izmailovo

deputy turned out to be one of the biggest

property developers in Moscow. Considering

the number of apartments, their approximate

value, and the actual figures for apartments already

sold by Metelsky’s companies,

they stand to make — attention —

around 1 billion rubles (about $10–11 million). But that is not

all. Using the same principle of overlapping

directors and addresses, we can find even

more assets.

Even more businesses. Let’s just do a quick

blitz run-through. For example, where

Metelsky owns a 30 percent stake

in Obukhov car service centers. Yes, Obukhov,

Obukhov, Vladimir — yes, yes, we are talking specifically about

the Obukhov centers. All of us have seen them

a million times, and if someone owns a car

like a Volvo, they probably get it serviced there. Here

is a list of seven legal entities connected

to the Obukhov auto centers, and in each of them

our old lady Metelskaya has a stake.

The combined annual turnover of these

car centers is more than 3 billion

rubles (about $32 million).

Let’s continue. Hotels in the Moscow region

— Foresta Festival Park is also one of their firms,

registered under Ivanovsky’s name, but managed

by the younger Metelsky. Don’t stay there

for vacation, don’t vacation there, don’t get your car repaired

at Obukhov.

Don’t use Lefortovo metro station either.

It is becoming harder and harder to live

in Moscow without accidentally paying

Deputy Metelsky. Don’t eat sushi at

Tanuki restaurants either, because there too

there is a high chance of handing over your

money to the Metelsky family. They own a number of these

restaurants. For example, they own one in

my southwestern district — actually, two of them,

located in my electoral district, on

Profsoyuznaya Street, and another in Zyuzino

on Balaklavsky Prospekt. And these two restaurants are owned by

Lyubov A.

Metelskaya.

And don’t go steaming away at the Vostochnye Baths in

Izmailovo either.

That is Metelsky too. In general, in

Izmailovo you start to feel somewhat

uncomfortable, because it creates

the impression that the Metelsky family

has decided to buy up absolutely all the

real estate there, residential and commercial alike. Metelsky

has a property of almost 500 square meters

on 15th Parkovaya Street.

And in this building in Izmailovo, the basement

and the first floor belong to Verdi Bit and

Metelskaya. And in my electoral

district, the Metelskys also own property.

They bought themselves a huge mansion

worth nearly 300 million rubles (about $3.2 million)

near Chistye Prudy (a historic central Moscow neighborhood). I even

visited it recently. There it is, that very mansion

that belongs to the Metelsky family.

Just look at that beauty: three floors, an attic,

a very nice, comfortable veranda

upstairs where you can rest and relax,

an armchair, a little sofa. Right now there is

an office here, and the land is expensive,

the rent is expensive, and the profits are very good

for a modest deputy of the Moscow

City Duma. Metelsky has done quite well for himself.

Metelsky, I’m watching you. And

by the way, let’s talk about where

Deputy Metelsky and his family live.

The good news is that they do not

spend all their time in their Austrian

palace and do still sometimes show up in Izmailovo.

But that is where the good news ends,

because there is a lot of this real estate,

it is worth insane amounts of money, and of course it is not

listed in any declarations. Let’s go on. In the same

building on Pervomayskaya Street that we already

showed, Verdi Bit and

Metelskaya own apartment No. 28 — 280

square meters — and apartment No. 2,

129 square meters, and one more

apartment of 173 square meters.

That apartment belongs to grandmother Lyubov;

she got it from Pyotr Ivanovsky. And these three

apartments together form a kind of mega-penthouse

with an area of 600 square meters. Well yes, that probably

would not have looked very good in a

deputy’s declaration. Izmailovo

voters would hardly have appreciated that.

Next, the deputy’s son also has

another apartment in his ownership,

possibly 115 square meters, on

Izmailovsky Boulevard.

From the property extract for it, we learn the name of

his mother — that is, Deputy Metelsky’s

apparently former wife. Right here, in the neighboring

128-square-meter apartment, lives the director

of most of the deputy’s companies, Kapustin. Let me remind you, he is

the son of another deputy

of the Moscow City Duma from United Russia (the ruling political party),

another fixture in the deputies’ seats. So, as for

the younger Metelsky’s mother, in

her ownership there is also a separate

residential property, again in Izmailovo,

288 square meters. House neighbors...

We’re well familiar with Pyotr Ivanovsky, and also

do you know who Mikhail is? The nephew of none other than

by the way, the deputy for Koltso, and for

the Gazprom management board as of last year, and

of course, two neighboring dachas on Rublyovka (an elite suburban area outside Moscow), in

the very center of the village of Razdory, and for

the sake of completeness, let’s add

an apartment near Patriarch’s Ponds and a house in

the Kaliningrad region, which also do not appear

in any declarations. Friends, let’s

sum it up. Once again, for clarity

and contrast, let’s pull out the declaration

of Metelsky: here there is only a deputy’s

salary and no real estate at all. But

let’s list what should be there.

Let’s do it.

Austria: 4 hotels and a palace, with a total

value of about 40 million euros

— that’s almost 2.5 billion rubles.

Real estate in Moscow: 600

million rubles. Land for a hotel

in Moscow: at least 1 billion rubles. On that land

there are already two buildings; their cadastral

value is at least another

And five apartments in the Izmailovo district

with a total area of 1,000

square meters, and a value of 200

million rubles. Two dachas on Rublyovka, three

houses — 400 million rubles.

A dacha in Kaliningrad: 25 million rubles.

And also an apartment near Patriarch’s Ponds: 12

million rubles. In real estate alone, for

the leader of Moscow’s United Russia members, we

counted 5.7 billion

rubles. And all this real estate, this crook

is hiding from his voters. And this

crook and thief has spent 20 years sitting in the Moscow

City Duma, passing laws that

you are required to obey. But now

tell me yourselves: after all this, is it possible

to give United Russia even a single vote?

Of course not. They are liars, hypocrites, and thieves. But

surely United Russia leader

Metelsky couldn’t have openly built his

business for years

in violation of his status as a deputy without

anyone knowing about it. After all, it is plainly

spelled out in the rulings of the Moscow

courts.

Of course everyone knows. Of course they know. And

Sobyanin knows, and Putin knows, and absolutely

all the other United Russia deputies

know it too. Nevertheless, they elect Metel-

sky as their leader, and he is running again

in the elections with his empty declaration. And

the most terrible thing is that they will be elected again

if they are not stopped. And personally, you — no one

else can do it. Each of these

candidates

needs your signature to be nominated, right

now, right this minute. Urgently go

to the video description — there are instructions there

on how to sign in support of the person running from

your district.

There are 4 days left — hurry. After that,

sign up for Smart Voting, and

on the eve of the election, wherever you live — in

Moscow, St. Petersburg, or another region — we

will send you

the name of the person you need to vote for. And on September 8

you will need to go and

vote.

Doing all this is very simple. If we

do it, we will defeat United Russia, the party

of crooks and thieves.