The investigation claims that his other wife owns inexplicably expensive property.
Sergei Lavrov has been foreign minister since 2004. He is now a candidate for parliament, suggesting he will no longer be a minister after the election.
Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption fund, which became particularly famous last year for its investigation into Vladimir Putin’s castle in Gelendzhik near the Black Sea, has published a new investigation. It deals with the secret life of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who currently heads United Russia’s list for the parliamentary elections that began today. Lavrov, 71, has been Russia’s foreign minister since 2004.
During the election campaign, Lavrov spent more than a week on a yacht with a woman called his secret wife, Svetlana Polyakova, the investigation said. Polyakova accompanies him on business trips on the state plane, and sometimes Lavrov takes her daughter, her mother and her niece with him. In addition, Polyakova’s daughter rested at the villa and yacht of billionaire Oleg Deripaska in Sardinia.
Lavrov spent 11 days from late July to early August on the Saluzi yacht in the Mediterranean, near Bodrum. Investigators cite tweets from a Turkish blogger with photos of the yacht and allegations that Lavrov was on it. The path of the yacht is also monitored with a tracking platform.
In addition, Svetlana Polyakova, a former Foreign Ministry employee, owns a 260-square-meter home in central Moscow, and her daughter, Polina, has rented a 9.4-year-old apartment in the Kensington area of London for £ 4.4 million. . On Instagram, Polina posted a photo of herself removing Saluzi from the deck of the yacht sailing from Bodrum. Investigators also have information on how and when Svetlana Polyakova arrived and left Bodrum Airport on a business plane. The rent for the yacht costs $ 480,000 a week.
For the last 7 years Polyakova has traveled with Lavrov’s official plane together with him 60 times. At some of the events they traveled to, they were photographed in public. Svetlana is engaged in film production. She also starred in a cameo role in the movie “Hero” with Dima Bilan.
In 2014, Polyakova flew planes owned by Oleg Deripaska in Austria, Germany, Montenegro and Sardinia. In Montenegro is the villa of Overseas Assets Management, connected to Deripaska. And a villa in Sardinia, reconnected with the billionaire, Polyakova calls her second home.
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lavrov’s wife’s name is Maria. Each year, the foreign minister declares the family’s annual income, which averages 8-10 million rubles (1,000 rubles is about 12 euros). According to an investigation by the website Insider, the official property of the family amounts to 600 million rubles, but this is nothing compared to the property of Svetlana Polyakova.
“The creators of this pseudo-investigation do not hide their goals – to destroy and annihilate,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Goebbels’ propaganda. A little truth is taken, a lie is added and it is pushed to the truth. Third, no one disputes Sergei Lavrov’s professionalism, not even his vicious opponents. “
