“When I got the apartment, I cried,” the former teacher, Mina Yuditskaya-Berliner, recalled nearly a decade later when she recounted the story to an Israeli newspaper. Putin does not appear ever to have addressed the purchase.Except that the money for the apartment purchase did not come from Putin. Instead, newly uncovered financial records show that the true source of the funds was an offshore account secretly controlled by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not directly respond to questions about Putin’s role in the transaction or whether the Russian leader had enlisted Abramovich, who is Jewish, to pay for the apartment. Instead, he referred questions about the matter to the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, saying that “any charitable work in Israel would have been done by them.
Explaining her link to the Russian leader, she asked whether she might be allowed to see Putin from the fringes of one of the events on his calendar. Instead, Yuditskaya-Berliner, then a widow well into her 80s, got far more. Yuditskaya-Berliner made no mention of Abramovich or any other benefactor in her retelling. But the documents provide deeper visibility into a transaction that she may not entirely have understood. She diedThe deed is dated June 29, 2005, two months after Putin’s visit to Jerusalem. It lists her as the recipient of a $245,000 sum transferred that same day by N.P. Gemini Holdings Ltd., a Cyprus-based shell company.
rhonda_harbison No matter how much he pays you, you cannot re-brand this war criminal and dictator as a good guy. Putin is pure evil.
Imagine you did this level of journalism on the Biden family
gregpmiller This Putin can’t speak German, though. 🤔
gregpmiller Word is also that Hitler loved puppies. One deed does not erase the other.
'The receipts add to the impression of an arrangement that both men have long denied — that Abramovich’s vast wealth, originally derived from the post-Soviet sale of state assets, came with strings that Putin could pull.'
The corrupt democrat WaPo got caught again lying to the American people ! Fact: Soros = a 1 million dollar campaign contributions to DA New York Bragg ! TRUTH
It's all Putin's stolen money. He uses his oligarchs to move the money around.
Better run go charge Putin with something, DOJ. 😂 WP, did you need a space filler? Who cares? Pppfftt