SPA, resorts and trips to Zelensky: Putin's daughter is accompanied by a security detachment - the media
Having studied it, journalists published a study, which tells how the family of President Vladimir Putin was guarded during the trip to Munich in 2016-2020. About ten SBP officers were involved in the trips. In Munich, they usually stopped at Hotel An Der Oper, settling in two numbers, trying not to attract attention. The choice of the hotel is explained by the proximity to the Bavarian State Opera, whose ballet from 2016 to 2022 was managed by Putin's son -in -law, Russian dancer Igor Zelensky.
Accordingly, the security was accompanied by the younger daughter of President Kateryna Tikhonov in these trips. The presidential daughter flew to Munich separately from the crowd of guards on a luxurious business jet. Given the documents in the e -mail of Skripchak, assigned to Kateryna Tikhonova, she used to use the SBP on her entertainment trips. For example, at the end of May 2016, Alexei Skripchak booked for the Tikhon Room at the Hotel Continental Relax & Spa in the Swedish city of Galmstad.
On the eve of her arrival, seven security officers arrived at the next hotel, and three more SBP staff arrived with Tikhonov. In March 2017, Tikhonova went to London for two days, where she was accompanied by nine presidential staff. However, most often she went to her husband to Germany, sometimes there was only a few days between the trips. Probably, it was assumed that the presence of so many guards should protect Putin's daughter from trouble.
However, according to Der Spiegel sources, a group of young, tight Russians with diplomatic passports namozoiced their eyes to the German special services, as a result, they began to follow both them and Tikhonov. In general, from January 2016 to January 2021, Skripchak has arrived hotels for Kateryna Tikhonova's guards almost 100 times. Only a third of the reservations came to the Russian cities, more than 40 - Germany, and it often flew to Austria and Italy.
Journalists point out that according to Russian laws, members of the President's family have the right to state protection if they live with him or accompany him on trips. Yes, the constant involvement of SBP officers in its protection while traveling is a violation of the law. Tikhonova's trips were not cheap. Only hotel reservations on a large group of guards during the trip to Munich in April 2018 cost more than $ 25,000.
There was no data in the Skripchak archive who paid for these trips, but it is obvious that the SBP employees' business trips were paid from the budget. The Gulfstream G650 aircraft with the onboard number LX-SIX, which at that time was Tikhonov, belongs to the Russian direct investment fund-a state-owned company, headed by Kirill Dmitriev, a longtime friend of the presidential daughter.
Dmitriev also shared with her previous husband Kirill Shamalov confidential information about future major operations of the Fund, including the entry into the capital of companies trading on the stock exchange. This information can bring a wealth to its owner, criminal punishment is entrusted to its disclosure. Kateryna Tikhonova also used the Bombardier Business jig with M-Fine. This aircraft belongs to the offshore company of Russian entrepreneur Alexei Repik.
Its pharmaceutical company is one of the largest recipients of the State Contracts for the supply of medicines in Russia. The cost of renting such business jets is 7-10 thousand euros per hour. The Skripchak archive has no data on who paid for the rent and whether he paid at all. We will remind, in May there was information that Vladimir Putin considers the opportunity to put his younger daughter headed by the party "Unified Russia".