Businessman Gregory Bayes, which is a partner of Arkady Rotenberg gave an expensive estate to three women, including Katerina Tikhonova, which the media called the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the relatives of the Deputy of the state Duma Alina Kabaeva.
The message of the action Baevsky published by Reuters. In his article, the journalists indicate that the information transferred to real estate available in the public domain. From these documents, in particular, it follows that the Tikhonov at registration one company has indicated the address of an apartment owned by Baevsky. The Kremlin has called the Reuters materials “one of the information items”, which the Kremlin knew in advance.
According to the Agency, in 2013, Baevsky has transferred ownership of the house and plot of land the assumption in the Moscow region Zatsepilina, which is the grandmother to the Deputy Kabaeva. 81-year-old woman who, according to journalists, recently became the owner of real estate, declined to comment.
Even earlier, in 2009, Bayes gave an apartment in Moscow on the street Veresaeva Laysan Kabaeva, the sister of Olympic champion and state Duma Deputy. Journalists contacted the officials of the company Laysan Kabaeva, but they refused to talk about the origin of the apartment, which recently recorded on their boss.
Nevertheless, the Agency managed to talk to the press Secretary Alina Kabaeva and ask her questions about the relationship of the Deputy of the state Duma with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the transactions between Baevsky and her relatives. “They are all adults, responsible for their actions and live their lives. Alina Maratovna Kabaeva is not related to these issues”, – said the official representative of the parliamentarian.
The journalists found out about another deal involving Bayes. According to their information, last year the businessman has transferred to the possession of another apartment in elite residential complex in Moscow, this time 23-the summer graduate of the Moscow state University Alice Harkaway. The girl became widely known in 2010 when, along with his classmates has released a sexy calendar, making an unusual gift to the Russian President on his birthday, which he celebrates on 7 October.
Two years later, in 2012, Kharcheva again starred in a photo shoot, this time with the cat to wish the President a happy birthday. The images were published on her blog.
On the question of how it so happened that she bought an apartment from the hands Baevsky, Kharcheva in conversation with journalists explained that the deal used the services of one of capital agencies of real estate and personally knows of a businessman. “We bought an apartment in the mortgage and paid her still,” said she.
Thus Kharcheva extremely sharply reacted to the Agency’s question about how could she help her “ties to Putin” when buying an apartment: “no I have never asked such stupid questions”.
The Agency argues that Bayes has long worked as an assistant of a close friend of Vladimir Putin Arkady Rotenberg. Thus journalists note that until recently the name of the businessman, which was one of the first was written by the reporter Roman Anin, the media practically did not appear.
The Reuters reporters point out that in 2006] together with Arkady and Boris Rotenberg founded the cooperative dacha in the Moscow region. These data, as underlined by the Agency, are publicly available.
The Agency also quoted the President’s press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, who denied the possible communication of the businessman with the head of state. “We know nothing about who he is. The President also not familiar with him,” declared Sands.
In response to other questions, the press Secretary of the head of state admitted that in the Kremlin there have been numerous requests from international journalists to comment on the childhood friends of the President and the facts that these people receive government contracts and government contracts. Then Peskov also declined to comment, stressing that the Kremlin tends to treat such materials as a targeted political campaign aimed at discrediting Putin.
Official representatives of Arkady Rotenberg in an interview with reporters, also denied any connection with his boss Baevsky, insisting that the latter does not work on the structures Rotenberg.
Open Russian sources confirm that Rotenberg and Bayes bind or at least tied business relationship. As written in Forbes 2012, CJSC “national chemical group”, registered in October 2011, is owned by the Rotenberg. 100% of the shares of this company belong to JSC “Russian holding company” (RHC), the main shareholder of which is “Alpen Investment limited”, where Rotenberg 50% of the shares. And “Alpen Investment limited”, in turn, is 100% founder of CJSC “RUSSIAN HOLDING COMPANY”, the Director General of which is Baevsky Gregory Savelievich.
The Kremlin and the state Duma is not interested in the investigation Reuters
Russian authorities drew attention to the journalistic investigation Agency, however, is not going to take it seriously, because this publication is one of information disinformation aimed at discrediting the Kremlin. This opinion, in particular, expressed a press-the Secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, reports RBC.
When asked whether the presidential administration to investigate the facts of the transfer of property from businessman Baevsky women, which journalists connect with the President, Peskov replied in the negative.
RBC with reference to a source familiar with the situation, notes that in the presidential administration does not plan to take any action on the results of the Reuters material. Nothing new, they did not say, according to the interlocutor of journalists.
Didn’t show much interest in publications and in Parliament. Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Ernest Valeev, in turn, noted that the Duma and the Committee will examine are set out in article of the facts, because “it’s speculation”.
In “Inpractice”, which is headed by Katerina Tikhonova, asked by journalists about comments asked to make a formal request. In the “National Media Group”, Chairman of the Board of Directors is Alina Kabaeva, RBC stated that it would not comment on the Reuters investigation. “The activities of the holding is irrelevant,” explained a company representative.
Earlier, on Thursday, Dmitry Peskov issued another warning, stating that media attacks on the President of the Russian Federation, which warned the Kremlin will continue, as their authors conceived the whole campaign with the “eye” on forthcoming elections.
According to the head of the Kremlin press service, “we are not talking about a purely journalistic activity, we are talking about campaign-related attempts to destabilize the situation in the country, to discredit the country’s leadership, primarily President”, and “thus have an impact on the situation in the country, and the election processes.” “So, from our point of view and according to the information we have, the authors of such trends, their attempts will not leave”, – said Peskov.
March 28, Peskov said about the preparation of a smear campaign in the media directed against Putin. Press Secretary said that in forthcoming publications we will talk personally about Putin, about attempts “to reach his family information and childhood friends of Putin”. Among these friends of the Sands called the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank “Russia” Yury Kovalchuk, the businessman Arkady Rotenberg and “other”.
