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What is the heritage of

Lyudmila

, the ex-wife of

Vladimir Putin

?

Like all relatives of

Vladimir Putin

, the ex-wife of the Russian president, 64, tries to avoid leaks about her private life.

Even

Artur Ocheretny

, her husband 20 years her junior and whom she married in 2015 after 30 years of marriage to Putin whom she divorced in 2013, has not drawn much attention so far.

However, a long Twitter thread by

Maria Pevchikh

, head of the

Navalny Foundation

's investigative unit , has uncovered the love story financed by

Putin

to find a husband for his ex-wife, which exposes the corruption of the

Kremlin

.

Maria Pevchikh

reveals the discoveries of the

Nalvany Foundation

around

Lyudmila

and her 'love story':

two apartments in Marbella

, valued at 2.2 million euros;

a flat in Switzerland

, in Davos, worth 3.7 million euros;

and

a villa on the French Atlantic coast at Anglet, near Biarritz

, surrounded by a 5,000 square meter park, valued at €5.3 million.

How has

Lyudmila managed

to get around the sanctions imposed by the West for the war in Ukraine?

Lyudmila

registered all her assets in the name of her new husband.

As Pevchikh

explains ,

"In the old days, it was common for the bride's parents to arrange a dowry: something valuable, such as money, expensive cloth, or jewelry to 'increase the value of the bride.'

And Putin took care of that.

"He literally has provided a multimillion-dollar dowry for his ex-wife," says the researcher.

Putin appointed

Lyudmila

director of the NGO

Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications

(

CDIC

), until in 2010, three years before the

Putin-Lyudmila

marriage ended , her current husband

Artur Ocheretny

took over .

Lyudmila

and

Putin

's 'love'

ended in 2013. Putin announced the end of the marriage in a state television broadcast while the two attended a ballet performance together.

Navalny

's anti-corruption investigators also revealed

Lyudmila

and

Ocheretny

's high-flying lives of

Russian oligarchs.

Putin's ex-wife and her husband.@pevchikh

"

Artur Ocheretny

and

Lyudmila Putina

(now officially Lyudmila Ocheretnaya) have no money of their own. Everything they own has been stolen by Vladimir Putin like a

reverse Robin Hood

: Putin steals from the poor to give to the rich." says

Pevchikh

.

Navalny

's team's investigation

also found several luxury apartments located in Europe, whose ownership the FBK has been able to ascertain belongs to the

Otsheretnys

.

According to research by the

Navalny

Foundation , the funds to acquire the apartments came from Putin or his oligarch friends, and the money ultimately came from the pockets of Russian taxpayers.

The couple are also avid travelers.

Both were frequently seen in France, while

Artur

participated in several Ironman triathlon competitions that are held throughout Europe.

The

Center for the Development of

Interpersonal Communication additionally allegedly pays the fees to his personal sports trainer Ivan Tsheprasov

.

Navalny

's investigative team

found evidence that at least 6 million rubles, which is about

100,000 euros

, had gone to the media center's accounts for coaches' fees.

"We urge the governments of

France, Switzerland and Spain

to put the Ochertny family on their sanctions lists immediately, freeze the properties they own and investigate the origin of their funds," Pevchikh tweeted.

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