Kremlin intoxicated critic Alexei Navalny alleges in a new, viral video that Russian President Vladimir Putin owns an opulent $ 1 billion palace that was built with fraudulently obtained funds, according to reports.
The video report detailing the allegations was released by Navalny’s team on Tuesday, two days after the dissident was jailed for 30 days after his return to Moscow. By Wednesday it had already garnered more than 35 million views.
Navalny, according to the images, claims that Putin’s allies, including oil chiefs and billionaires, paid for the construction of the Black Sea palace for $ 1.35 billion, the BBC reported.
“[They] they built a palace for their boss with that money, “Navalny says, according to the report. He added that it was built” with the largest bribe in history. “
The Kremlin fired on Wednesday, denying Putin was the owner of the palace.
“All of these are absolutely unfounded claims,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by the Moscow Times, quoting Interfax. “That’s pure nonsense.”
Peskov said the palace “has nothing to do with either the president or the Kremlin, so we have not the slightest desire to be interested,” according to the report.
The video states that the palace is equipped with a casino and an underground ice rink.
“It has impregnable fences, its own port, its own security, a church, its own permit system, a no-fly zone and even its own border control,” Navalny says, according to the BBC.
“It is a separate state within Russia. And in this state there is only one irreplaceable tsar: Putin, “he says.
Navalny was arrested Sunday night after flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
The Moscow prison service ordered his arrest in connection with alleged violations of the suspended prison sentence in a case of embezzlement insisting he was deceived.
The dissident fell into a coma while traveling on a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow on 20 August. Two days later, he was transferred from a hospital in Siberia to one in Berlin.
Laboratories in Germany, France, and Sweden, and tests by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, established that he was exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent, Novichok.
With publishing cables