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police shooting sparks a murder spree
and a new investigation in silent

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witness in half an hour but first on
bbc1 panorama

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is the world leader accused of
personally approving murder on the

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streets of London the conclusion that
the Russian state was probably involved

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in the murder of Mr Litvinenko is deeply
disturbing but his the president

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implicated in an assassination also
responsible for theft on an

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extraordinary scale

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his family of things that almost no
billionaire and the West would have

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Vladimir Putin has been accused of
looting his old country

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today Putin behaves like a czar tonight
we investigate the truth about president

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Putin's riches while because it's
belongs to put him to the state and for

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the first time the Americans say what
they really think about the Russian

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President Vladimir Putin in our view yes

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there is like Vladimir Putin

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and ruler of Russia Vladimir Putin
previous 34 tracks from Ukraine to Syria

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Vladimir Putin's influence is being felt
he's faced countless accusations of

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corruption but still has record approval
ratings in russia what do you think of

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Vladimir Putin

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president Putin's around $100,000 and
yet he lives like the super rich he has

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a collection of expensive even his
design a tracksuit dollars he has a

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level of living that is far in excess of
anything anyone in the west would have

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even the very richest that kind of level
that we see from Saudi princes

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so how rich is Vladimir Putin

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will get maybe one of russia's best kept
secrets but one journalist came up with

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a figure stanislav velkoff ski claimed
Putin had secret shareholdings in some

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of Russia's biggest companies I met him
in moscow I've got this information from

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a confidential sources did you come up
with flooding near Putin's wealth of

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forty billion of dollars in assets not
in cash of course I'm still just men

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Europe one of the richest men in the
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Putin himself dismissed the forty
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secret CIA report agreed with Bell cost
is figure in their view Putin was worth

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around forty billion dollars did you
tell the CIA the details of your 40

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billion figure out how I think CIA and
FBI have good information

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separately without my assistance

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russia's role in the Ukrainian conflict
has led to closer scrutiny of Putin's

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finances many of his inner circle have
faced financial sanctions from the

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Americans and the European Union now the
USS won't publicly confirmed the forty

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billion figure but they have told
panorama what they think about Putin's

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wealth I'm not in a position to give you
figures but what I can say is that he

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supposedly draws a state salary of
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thousand dollars a year that is not an
accurate statement of the man's wealth

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and he has long time training and
practices in terms of how to mask his

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actual well as Vladimir Putin corrupt in
our view yes how long is the united

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states known that Vladimir Putin was in
your words corrupt figure

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for many many years dismisses this sort
of talk is not since but the fact that

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the americans are finally labeling Putin
as corrupt shows how bad relations have

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become so what's the truth about Putin's
money has russia's President be making

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billions on the site and if he has it
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I've come to estonia to meet a man who
says he knows about some of Putin's cash

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he fled Russia after falling out with
kremlin insiders are contact help Putin

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collect money from the super rich they
also thought it was to pay for health

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Kolesnikova says some of the donated
cash was diverted and ultimately used to

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help build a billion dollar palace for
Putin usually regrettably these funds

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which were supposed to be invested in
decent investment projects to a

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significant extent ended up being spent
on a palace on the Black Sea coast and

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here it is

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President Putin says the palace is
nothing to do with him

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but we've seen documents linking
Vladimir Putin to the palace at the time

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it was built they show a secret money
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heart of it

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documents from one of the offshore
companies that diverted millions of

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dollars to the palace and according to
collect the owner of this company was

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Putin himself the offshore company was
overseen by Kolesnikova and his business

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partner a Kremlin insider called nikolai
Sharmila Sharmila of said that he was

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taking 96 shares 96% keeping to free
himself and he would be giving 94 to

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Putin and there's more evidence Knezevic
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were recorded apparently discussing four
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investments belonging to Putin

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they referred to Putin using a nickname
Kremlin insider and in that recording he

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was discussing Putin secret fortune is
not easy he used to run Russia's

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intelligence service he knows how to
hide secrets

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but panorama has tracked down one who
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five companies in the south of France to
meet him

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hotel we're about to be picked up and
taken to the interview location but the

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truth is we have no idea where we goin
simply don't have anything like an

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address and the reason is probably
because the man that we're on our way to

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interview is in the room

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he was one of Russia's richest and most
important men but he fled his homeland

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and says he can't go back

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his driver has brought me to a secret
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this is Sergey put off

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he says he helped Putin become president
they were friends their children place

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again I had a very close relationship
with Putin Putin consulted me Boonton

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confided in me

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took Putin to see one of the
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of course this was an absolutely new
world new life and of course he was

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astonished by it in that first term as
president what was Putin's attitude to

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money I think that Putin was preoccupied
with the issue of wealth from the start

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I think the Putin this was an important
factor we talked about it he didn't hide

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it he knew he wanted to leave office as
a wealthy person glad Amir Putin has

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come a long way

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he wasn't born rich man to understand
him we need to go to his home city in

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Peter's room

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on the fifth floor Putin's family had
one room in a shared apartments no hot

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water and I shared kitchen in the
corridor Vladimir Putin grew up in

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poverty but it was in st. Petersburg
Vladimir Putin first tasted power

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back in the nineties not long out of the
KGB Putin became a deputy mayor on his

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watch millions of dollars disappeared
from public funds to a company called

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20th trust the detective who
investigated says Putin was one of those

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who benefited

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he says Putin ended up with a property
in Torrevieja Spain 20th trust is

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building a villa for Putin in Torrevieja
is this Putin personally receiving the

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money or not in my opinion the answer is
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the criminal case was closed after Putin
became president says he was forced into

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retirement

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the Kremlin has denied the claims but
Spanish investigators revealed the

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details of wiretapped phone
conversations between russians who have

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been linked to organized crime they can
be heard discussing Putin's property in

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space

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Putin's house isn't on the same Spanish
towns the Crawford identified it looks

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like she was right

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Putin got a house in Spain

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how to profit from power he also built a
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they came with him

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the men closest to Putin have been with
him for years they with him here in st.

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Petersburg and they stayed with him ever
since and this is the group that he

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trusts and that he rewards this is the
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became president and then Prime Minister
of Russia his former deputy also served

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as Prime Minister the chief of staff at
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anti-drugs agency

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his former assistant now runs the
biggest oil company in the world

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and his former economist now runs the
biggest gas company in the world

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of them worked with Putin in this
building

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they rose up together they went with him
to moscow and they have been a very

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stable elite this whole group who
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the russian economy they all work
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in st. Petersburg President Putin was at
the center of this new release he had

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power and access to this super rich you
can see how Putin use this by looking at

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his relationship with Britain's most
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Abramovich now he unwittingly donors to
Putin's palace he thought all his cash

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would be spent on health care and he
gave more than two hundred million

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dollars his role was rather simple he
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dollars so were these oligarchs
effectively just paying tribute to

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Vladimir Putin I think this is exactly
what they thought

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and other wealthy Russians are expected
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hosting the 2018 World Cup

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minimum wage to Chester read them and
will be organized in which we have been

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told about a gift that can't be
explained away is good for anyone other

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than dragomir Putin a thirty-five
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who managed

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with the Kremlin he's a wanted man in
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Demetrice karges says he helped oversee
the transfer of the boat from Abramovich

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to Putin I was at the end of March 2002
there was a representative from Mr Brown

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words given to an offshore company but
the real owner was President Putin

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definitely no doing so she was
maintained wait for any costs from state

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budget why would he be kept secret
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state we've seen documents that appear
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his lawyers said the claims were
unsubstantiated little more than a

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rehash of speculation and rumors but
they didn't specifically deny that he

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had given President Putin a yacht

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you can hardly blame Abramovich for
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standing up to him

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can be dangerous publicly challenging
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and this is where he ended up

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he was jailed for tax evasion and
embezzlement his business was taken by

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the Russian state that beauty of the
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according to the old adage from my
friends everything from my enemies the

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law that Putin chose to send to all of
them was that I can put you in prison

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for anything I don't need to have a
watertight case so that is the genius of

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the system

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claims he lost his business he started a
multi-billion dollar compensation claim

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against the Russian state but the
Russian authorities accuse him of

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stealing billions of dollars from a bank
he used to own

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there is no court in russia that's why I
went to the International Court I am

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convinced that I will win the Russian
state says that you effectively looted

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your bank after it was bailed out by the
russian central bank did you do that of

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course not absurd accusations not
substantiated by anything we don't know

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who's telling the truth about you but
the allegation is clear

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Putin controls the super rich in Russia

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people who possess a fortune a large
business in Russia realize that they do

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not own this because everything depends
on Putin they depend 100% on his mood

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those who've been in Putin's

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the benefits have been immense

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cellist godfather to Putin's daughter
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bank

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a neighbor as an even bigger stake

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another neighbor ended up running the
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childhood friend has made of choose from
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and his brother is made even more

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the Americans saying this is how Putin's
Russia works

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we've seen him in reaching his friends
his close allies and marginalizing knows

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who he doesn't view as friends using
state assets whether thats Russia's

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energy wealth whether it's other state
contracts redirect those to whom he

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believes will serve him and excludes
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and if you want to make money in russia
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greatest riches are in oil and gas
exports well over a billion barrels of

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oil a year and here to Adam a Putin has
been accused of taking a cut for himself

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system where high-ranking officials
actually want to control vital strategic

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assets what we have now are a bunch of
shading barely appear in public and

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control vital businesses linked to the
state which makes one thing and wonder

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whether they are real beneficiary or
somebody Super Bowl for was really

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behind them

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I've come to New York to meet a man who
says Putin took a slice of his own

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business

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he's yet another Russian fled abroad

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he says his life has been threatened
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freed since started his business in st.
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Putin gave him a monopoly to supply to
the local airport but he says the help

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came at a price I know from my business
partner that Putin ask for a share in

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the business initially they were asking
for 15% he called them greedy bastards

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he managed to talk them down 24 percent
obviously this wasn't registered in any

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official papers the Kremlin says maxis
stories on true

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the americans have highlighted another
energy company that they say Putin has

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links to its called good

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according to the Americans Putin had
secret investments in the company

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we believe that it's a place where he's
toured money and how much money would

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you say I can't give you an estimate on
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were illogical and preposterous
conspiracy theories and that President

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Putin does not and never has had any
ownership in the Americans insist

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they're right but they haven't provided
any evidence

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it's important because it's made big
profits and nearly half of the company

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was owned by this man gennady team
Chango of Putin's friends he's now sold

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his stake it said he's worth 10 billion
dollars and he's on the UN sanctions

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list the Americans claimed his
activities in the energy sector have

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been directed by President Putin has
been holding wealth I don't know if I

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would put it exactly that way in terms
of holding his well I can say that he

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has been tremendously enriched
personally by Vladimir Putin as have

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another handful of people in the inner
circle and of course their allegations

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suspicions that he holds tremendous
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Tymoshenko his lawyers said the U S has
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claims were propaganda in which our
client is a collateral target Mr

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Tymoshenko categorically denies that
President Putin has ever controlled his

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assets or enriched him

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two of our sources say Mr Tim Chang ko
was very much under the control of

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Vladimir Putin himself that sometimes
you could just pointing out the box and

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everything is controlled by mr. Putin
from the very start treating understood

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that money which Tymoshenko is managing
one way or another without any doubt

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belong to Putin it was never a secret
sources are not credible and may have

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axes to grind

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President Putin denies all the
allegations in this program is spokesman

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declined to answer absurd questions
because the issues we had raised

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pure fiction

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this matters because President Putin is
one of the most powerful people on the

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planet but he's been accused to be using
that power to enrich himself on a vast

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scale Sportage I started arguing with
Schimmel oh and he said to me who do you

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think you are you're a surf bizarre he
often called Putin bizarre Bazaar made a

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decision

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your job is that of a surf to deliver

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some say Putin can demand anything he
wants to almost any figure for his

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wealth is meaningless considers
everything within the territory of the

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Russian Federation everything that can
be converted into cash to be his own how

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would you describe that kind of well

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Putin has been accused of corruption on
an extraordinary scale the moderns

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wounded his own empire