VLADIMIR Putin has arrested the journalists who uncovered his “solution adore little one” right after an alleged affair with his cleaner-turned-millionaire lover.
The crackdown will come after Russian media outlet Proekt named Svetlana Krivonogikh as the mom of Putin’s illegitimate daughter, 18-year-old Luiza Rozova, also recognised as Elizaveta Krivonogikh.
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The opposition news web-site very first posted the bombshell claims in November very last calendar year.
It claimed flight logs showed how Krivonogikh, now 47, often joined Putin on planes in the late 1990s, which includes for the duration of the period of time when he headed the feared FSB counterintelligence services.
And the media outlet consulted Hassan Ugail, a visual computing specialist at Bradford University, who concluded Elizaveta “bears a phenomenal resemblance to the Russian president”.
Confront-recognition software package allegedly showed a 70.44 per cent similarity among Putin, 68, and the teen.
The Russian strongman has hardly ever acknowledged Elizaveta as currently being his daughter, after her existence was first reported on past yr.
But cops raided the households of Roman Badanin, the editor of Proekt, and Maria Zholobova, another journalist, on Tuesday and taken out desktops, telephones and flash drives from their flats, The Instances reports.
Mikhail Rubin, Proekt’s deputy editor, was also arrested as he arrived at Zholobova’s house.
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In accordance to The Situations, Badinin, 51, shouted “Russia will be no cost!” as he was detained for questioning by police.
Badanin’s legal professionals stated he was taken in for questioning in relationship with a defamation case involving Ilya Traber, an alleged criminal offense boss with documented back links to Putin, through a documentary which was released on-line in 2017.
Cops confirmed the raids had been connected to allegations of defamation – but gave no other information.
The Kremlin denied that the law enforcement raids were revenge for Proekt’s investigative journalism.
“There are reputable grounds for these kinds of steps,” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, explained.
Putin grew to become near to Krivonogikh in the late 1990s, at the time his profession was on a steep upward trajectory, Proekt claimed.
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The Russian president’s alleged previous mistress had the moment worked as a “cleaning girl” and lived in a shared flat in St Petersburg.
But soon after meeting Putin, she moved into “the most elite housing that a St Petersburg resident could wish for” and now owns a nightspot that includes “erotic reveals”
She is regarded to be shut to his longtime oligarch friend Yury Kovalchuk, the most important shareholder in Lender Rossiya, which was sanctioned by the West after Russia’s 2014 military services annexation of Crimea.
Krivonogikh’s business and house portfolio is worth an believed £75million right now, in accordance to Proekt.
Questioned about Putin relationship’s with Krivonogikh very last calendar year, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I have been requested about this last identify.
“But I’ve under no circumstances listened to anything at all about it and I really do not know just about anything.”
The romantic relationship is claimed to have ended all over the time Putin commenced to be romantically connected to Olympic gold medallist Alina Kabaeva, 37, now head of a significant pro-Kremlin media enterprise.
Putin has two grownup daughters Maria, 35, and Katerina, 34, from his relationship to previous Kremlin very first woman Lyudmila Putina, which ended in 2013.