Dozens of luxury villas and apartments on the Mediterranean coast are owned by people with a connection of some kind to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terrorist regime.
Part two of our investigation demonstrates one undeniable fact. The Russian elite are afraid they could lose their valuable properties in France due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
To avoid this, they are transferring their wealth to family members who are less likely to be sanctioned by the European Union.
Representatives of the Kremlin elite want to carry on earning billions in Russia, so they don’t protest against the war. But they also want to carry on enjoying lives of luxury in France.
So increasingly, their children, parents and ex-wives are becoming the owners of their expensive villas and apartments.
Author: Mykhailo Tkach
Director: Andrii Ihnatenko
Cinematographer: Yaroslav Bondarenko
Sound director: Dmytro Kozyrenko
Editor-analyst: Kateryna Kapliuk
English translation: Sofiia Kohut, Yuliia Kravchenko, Oxana Hart
Translation editor: Teresa Pearce
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