Estate of Dmitry Patrushev, Putin’s potential successor

2024-08-05 11:14:54

In 2017, Cyprus-based offshore company Pimodo invested 3 million euros ($3.25 million) in 10 residences at the five-star Salinas Sea Resort in the Atlantic island nation of Cape Verde. The money for the investment came from Agrotorg Tulsky, a Russian agricultural trading company. In an article written by the Russian-language research group Radio Liberty “Sistema” and radio employee Sergey Titov, it is said that the company is a branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank – “Rosselkhozbank”, established by the Russian government in 2000. to support it the agricultural sector.

In 2018, “Agrotorg Tulsky” bought “Pimodo” itself. In other words, a bank created to develop agriculture in Russia has become the owner of expensive property in a remote country known for its white sand beaches and which the US government calls “an important transit point for imported South American cocaine in Europe”.

Dmitri Patrushev bought the option?

The Sistema investigation focuses on the Russian deputy prime minister at the center of this Cape Verde acquisition Dmitry Patrushevindicated that he was standing. Patrushev, 46, is a presidential aide and former secretary of the Security Council Nikolay Patrushevthe eldest son of Experts is a 71-year-old president Vladimir Putinthey say he is the leading candidate to succeed him. But there is no sign that this will happen anytime soon.

The most remarkable feature of Dmitri Patrushev as his successor is that he is a “silovik” (translated from Russian as “representative of the body of power” – ed.) and a civilian. Putin’s political adviser and former speechwriter (speechwriter – ed.) Abbas Qallyamov writes that, thanks to his father, the Chekist clan will support him as a “socially close” person, if not completely “theirs”: “After that, his “pogons” will not be afraid of the majority of society, which is tired of the rhetoric of war and the endless hunt of the enemy.”

However, according to him, Patrushev’s disadvantages are the scandals associated with him and the image of “his father’s flower child”.

Nikolay Patrushev, 73, who has known Putin since the 1970s, is one of the most trusted members of the president’s inner circle. He is one of the most militant and anti-Western people in that circle. Patrushev, a KGB and FSB officer, became the professional president in August 1999 Boris Yeltsin When Putin became prime minister, he replaced him as head of the FSB. Patrushev’s two sons – Dmitry and AndreyHe studied at the FSB Academy.

Nikolay Patrushev

In 2000, Patrushev published an article supporting “the arrival of KGB personnel like himself and Putin in the highest echelons of power.” In the article, he claimed that the “expression” of this group is a threat to democracy, and he described that group as “strict pragmatists” who protect the country from external and internal enemies.

The new aristocracy?

He claimed that they are the “new aristocracy” of Russia.

Dmitry Patrushev had a tumultuous career under Putin. At the age of 32, he became the chairman of the Agricultural Bank of Russia, the fourth largest bank in the country in terms of net assets, and the minister of agriculture at the age of 40. This year, aged 46, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the agro-industrial complex and regularly attends meetings with Putin in the Kremlin.

As a model citizen of Putin’s nationalist, anti-Western and isolated Russia, Patrushev spends the New Year holidays not abroad, but in a country house in the Tver region, a few hundred kilometers from Moscow. This house is officially the unofficial wife of Patrushev, a TV personality Marina Artyomyevaor pertaining to. Artyomyeva also owns the Patrushev estate in the Moscow suburbs and two apartments in the “Zolotoy” elite residential complex near the Kremlin. According to “System” estimates, he officially owns $31 million worth of real estate.

Investigating the history of this country house in Tver, “Sistema” revealed a series of deals and manipulations on the way from this property on the banks of the Volga River to the Cape Verde properties close to the Atlantic coast of Africa. All these deals involved the Agricultural Bank of Russia, controlled by Patrushev.

On November 21, 2022, Patrushev, who was still Minister of Agriculture at that time, organized the opening of a poultry farm in the Tyumen region of Western Siberia. Putin almost joined this ceremony, which was also attended by the governor and business representatives. One of the participants he named is the owner of an agro-business called “Agropromkomplektsiya”. Sergey Novikov was

Novikov, 64, started his business empire from a collective farm in the Tver region shortly after the fall of the USSR. At that time, the company started operating with 200 head of cattle and 2 thousand hectares of land.

An area 17 times the size of Manhattan?

Today, that conglomerate has 40,000 cows, 1.3 million pigs and more than 100,000 hectares of land. That’s an area 17 times larger than Manhattan. The same company, which is one of the 3 largest producers of dairy products in Russia, ranks seventh in pork production. Last year, the company’s revenue was about 1.9 billion dollars.

In a 2020 interview, Novikov spoke openly about Patrushev’s unique role in his company’s rapid growth.

In April 2013, about a year before the Agricultural Bank of Russia started providing large loans to Novikov’s company, he left the agribusiness holding “Korovinskoye” and Andrey Aleshkov into the hands of a businessman named Aleshkov is an old school friend of Dmitri Patrushev. “Novaya Gazeta Europe” writes that Patrushev’s bank granted a loan of 1.89 billion rubles ($54 million) in 2016 to Aleshkova to build a residential complex called “Prime-Am” in Moscow.

Korovinskoye, a cattle breeder, had a very beautiful plot of land in the Tver region – on the banks of the Volga River. This piece of land is now where Dmitri Patrushev’s country house is located. In 2013, an area of ​​3 hectares, slightly larger than Red Square, was cleared of trees. According to images taken from Google Earth, construction works were already underway in the area in 2014.

In 2018, a subsidiary of the Russian Agricultural Bank took over the Cyprus-based offshore company Pimodo and its investment in a resort complex in Cape Verde.

This agreement lasted until 2022. After Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it was necessary to hide Russian assets abroad. Just 3 weeks before the February 24th attack, Pimodo was sold to another offshore company called Fiosal Ventures. According to the information taken from the register of Cypriot companies, “Fiosal Ventures” has indirect corporate ties with Novikov’s company “Agropromkomplektsiya”.

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