The controversial mysterious palace on the Black Coast has recently attracted worldwide attention, and the $1.4 billion palace-like wilderness, which Russian opposition leader Navalny accused of covering an area of 18,000 square meters and worth $1.4 billion, belongs to Putin, according to the Global Network. Putin, on the other hand, openly denied it, saying that the house did not belong to Putin or a close relative of Putin, calling it a slander against him.
After the video of "Palace of the Black Sea" produced by Navalny was uploaded to the Internet, it became very popular, and has now been viewed more than 200 million times, and has triggered protests and demonstrations in many parts of Russia.
This 74-hectare luxury villa features a glittering Italian classical design that resembles the Palace of Versailles in France. It has separate vineyards and a helipad, as well as a circular theatre, indoor cinema, swimming pool and gym, and much more. The interiors are beautifully decorated: gold-encrusted ceilings with intricate and classical Rococo textures, beds decorated with layers of draperies, sophisticated antique furniture and frescoes. The number of double-headed eagle badges per square meter in this villa is enough to show that except for the residence of the Tsar or president, everyone else is over-regulated.
But the specific owner of this house, The Russian official has not been clear. Until the weekend, Russia's new oligarch, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, stood up and appeared to debunk the rumors, publicly "claiming" in the face of the media, claiming that he was the owner of the palace and was currently carrying out resort business. He claimed to have purchased the palace two years earlier. Rotenberg said that at that time the property rights of the villa had a rather complicated arrangement, with many creditors, and he managed to become the ultimate beneficiary. He did not disclose further financial details of the acquisition or how the acquisition funds were raised.
The "Black Sea Palace" incident began 10 years ago, on December 21, 2010, a St. Petersburg businessman named Sergei Kolesnikov wrote an open letter to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, exposing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's construction of his secret villa on the Black Sea, while revealing a large number of financial details. According to the data, the Construction of the Black Sea Villa began as early as 2005, when the Russian government allocated more than 70 acres of protected forest land to the villa. The construction and security of the entire villa is the Responsibility of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), and the road to the villa is built by the federal government.
By January 2011, the exact location of the villa appeared on Magnum's Google satellite maps. In February 2011, five journalists and environmentalists tried to enter the construction site in the villa area and were immediately arrested by the FSB. Immediately after this incident, the Black Sea Villa was sold to several offshore companies registered in Cyprus. Immediately after the news was announced, the Russian presidential office denied it, and President Putin's press secretary, Peskov, said that there was no such thing.
This is the luxury villa of the former president of the Russian Railways. In fact, in Russia, it is very common for the magnates to build a villa for themselves. Especially in the warm southern Black Sea to build villas. The Russian desire for holiday villas in the south is incomprehensible Chinese.
The large villa built by Russian Defense Minister Shoigu is an antique Chinese-style building, built since 2010, and the property rights of the land belong to his daughter, a large antique Chinese-style building. After this matter was exposed by the media, it once became one of the hot topics of Discussion among Russian netizens in 2015.
Rotenberg, the owner of Russia's largest infrastructure construction company, built bridges and gas pipelines, and amassed a fortune through lucrative contracts with Russian state-owned enterprises.
The most famous project built by Arkadi Rotenberg was the Crimean Bridge that directly blockaded Ukraine in the Sea of Azov and connected Russia with the Crimean Peninsula. The bridge was built urgently after Russia recaptured Crimea, with a budget of more than $3 billion, and Putin personally presided over the opening ceremony of the bridge.
Another dazzling project of Alcaj Rotenberg is its participation in the infrastructure of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. According to media estimates, Rotenberg's earnings in contracts for projects related to the Sochi Winter Olympics are as high as about $7 billion.
By the way, Alkati Rotenberg is Putin's "hair small", a Leningrad native, who met Putin as a teenager, graduated from St. Petersburg State Sports University, and is also Putin's judo and Sambo sparring partner. Their common judo initiation teacher was the famous Russian judo master Rahrin, who died of illness in August 2013. In 2013, Arkadi was elected executive member of the World Judo Association. He has close ties with Putin and often has private meetings.
After the new century, Arkady Rotenberg quickly became the boss of the "Russian Gas Construction and Installation" Group (SGM), Russia's largest oil and gas pipeline and power supply line construction company, and by the end of 2021, his personal assets were about $3 billion (he also had an older brother Boris Rotenberg who jointly controlled SGM, and his brother was worth $2 billion). The Rotenberg brothers are also among the 24 relatives and friends of Putin who were sanctioned by the United States and the European Union in 2014. From this incident, the Russian people understood a truth: we must not underestimate the physical education teacher.