Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was forced to move to rented accommodation after the publication of Transparency International was published the address of his apartment, reports RNS with reference to one of the friends of Deputy Prime Minister.
According to the source, Rogozin had to move into rented accommodation for security reasons. “Deputy Prime protected person. And to ensure his safety in this apartment now is very difficult. It was therefore decided to relocate the family to a more peaceful place that is easier to protect”, — the interlocutor told.
The interlocutor of the edition told how Rogozin appeared flat, which caught the attention of Transparency International. According to him, he received it as a result of the exchange at no extra cost, giving their privatized apartment in the Big Tishinsky lane. There the future Vice-Premier lived after his return from Brussels, where until 2011 he was Ambassador of Russia to NATO. “He singled out this apartment as the official of the highest level,” the source explained. Then the apartment, he said, was privatized.
Rogozin himself in his blog in the social network Twitter has denied allegations of corruption and said that he has no income except those that were specified in the Declaration. He also asked “who you” not to give interviews to journalists, after the media published information about his move: “thanks, of course, all sorts of “friends”, for giving me an interview with the media, but I’ll deal with it”, — said Rogozin.
Previously on the website of Transparency International had published an investigation about the apartment of Dmitry Rogozin, the cost of which, according to rough estimates, is supposedly about 500 million rubles. It is ten times more family income Vice-Prime Minister for four years.
