Patriarch Cyril, children of Russian officials and oligarchs fly abroad as diplomats - investigation

Among the most famous names who became "diplomats" are billionaires Oleg Deripaska, Alisher Usmanov and Igor Yusufov. Shoiga's daughter also used a diplomatic passport for traveling to Dubai. Friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, FSB Generals, Children of high -ranking politicians, Patriarch Cyril, as well as Russian billionairers have diplomatic passports, which enables them to travel the world as diplomats, and some even awarded the title of "Honorary Consul".

This is stated in the investigation of The Insider. According to The Insider, the daughter of former Russian Defense Minister of Kseniya Shogu flew to Dubai for a foreign passport, whose series indicates that this passport is diplomatic. "The list of persons who have been provided with dipassports is defined by law. In addition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these are ministers, parliamentarians, etc.

The son of the Deputy Security Council of Ilya Medvedev received his dipndories in 2012 and 2017. A few days after the approval of his father in the post. India. Billionaire Igor Yusufov is also the winner of the dipsport. He is considered to be Dmitry Medvedev's "wallet". This year, Yusufov was among the Russians with the highest amounts of dividends. He received 12. 8 billion rubles from Yargeo, jointly with the "novate" of the enterprise for the development of oil Yuda region.

Rosneft head Igor Sechin has been using diplomatic passports since 2013. During this time, he took advantage of a special status for traveling to Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, China, India, Switzerland, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Finland, Norway, and Norway, and Norway, and Norway. Maldives. Also, according to The Insider, the dipassports were published by Rostech's head Sergei Chemezov and the CEO of Rzhd Oleg Belozorov.

There is the right to diplomatic privileges in the head of the Russian Orthodox Church actually received. Patriarch Cyril, according to The Insider, was flying regularly with the event to the event to the event of the West to Germany, Austria and Finland. Dipasports also found the FSB generals: Alexander Bortnikov, Sergiy Consida, Sergey Korolev and Alexei Sedov. Prior to a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, they had time to fly to France and Switzerland. Putin's colleague since working at St.

Petersburg City Hall Viktor Zubkov has also used diplomatic privileges. The expremier is now headed by the Gazprom Directors. Presidential Assistant Andriy Fursenko used a dipassport for traveling to Tehran, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome. "Formally, a dipsport is an official document. It is possible to fly by civil servants exclusively on a business trip, and after returning it is necessary to hand over to the personnel department. But this rule is, of course, not for everyone.

On the trip of particular They looked through their fingers, "a former Russian government official told reporters. Andrei Fursenko has a brother Sergei Fursenko, Vice President of Gazprombank. And he is a diplomat "on the contrary": he wears the title of Honorary Consul of the Republic of Bangladesh in St. Petersburg. The Russian billionairers have loved the honorary consuls: in fact there are no duties, but there is status.

And you can become an honorary consul of any country without even being a citizen. In other words, to perform the role of "inagent". According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the status of honorary consuls also have Putin "wallets" Gennady Timchenko (Serbia) and Yuri Kovalchuk (Thailand). Timerbutat Karimov, Siechin's son -in -law, retains the position of Honorary consul of Italy in Ufa.