John Helmer — Mortal Blind Catch – How The Concluding British Investigative Journalist Turns 1 On Russia

What Private Eye has failed to investigate is how Chernukhin has been able to import together with invest a fortune inward the UK, amongst the imprimatur of the British Government, fiscal regulators, together with banks – a fortune whose rootage when he was a terra firma official inward Moscow Chernukhin declines to explain....

On the ascendence of Kasyanov together with Kudrin, Chernukhin supervised VEB’s takeover of virtually Russian pension fund contributions; administration of Soviet-era debts owed to Moscow past times states similar Czechoslovakia together with Vietnam; together with bail-out loans for companies designated past times Kasyanov, Kudrin, or Putin every bit politically valuable; these included terra firma media companies. When Kasyanov began to threaten Putin amongst political competition, he was dismissed from the prime number ministry building inward 2004. At the same fourth dimension Chernukhin was fired from the chairmanship of VEB. He together with then moved to London.

The High Court papers together with media reports bespeak that he took amongst him together with and then spent at to the lowest degree £150 1 K one thousand acquiring personal together with commercial assets. As he did that, Chernukhin was sheltered past times the British Government which granted him British citizenship. In 2006 Moscow reporters were yell for inward impress where Chernukhin’s coin had come upwards from. “Why”, wrote Semyon Goncharov of KM.ru, “don’t the British government inquire the Russian oligarchs the question: where, thank you lot to what, together with at the expense of whom did they larn their fortunes?… As for Vladimir Chernukhin, the British government may conduct keep been embarrassed to inquire him where the one-time deputy Minister got 135 1 K one thousand dollars to purchase the component edifice of Midland Bank, because his official salary is clearly non plenty to collect such money.”

Chernukhin was asked terminal calendar month to clarify the appearance of this discrepancy together with to concern human relationship for the rootage of his wealth inward business amongst the electrical flow British statutes. He refused to reply....

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PRIVATE BLIND EYE – HOW THE LAST BRITISH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST TURNS ONE ON RUSSIA
John Helmer