Deputy Defense Minister’s wife was shopping in Paris during the war
While Timur Ivanov was helping oversee the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his wife Svetlana left for Paris to go on a shopping spree, British media The Sun reported. She alone spent 7000 Euros in Italian luxury fashion brand Prada. She also bought a piece of jewelry of her choice from an ultra-exclusive jewelry brand in Paris. Svetlana is accused of shopping and aiding in money laundering with money earned from corruption.
Claimed to spend 5 times more than income
ACF investigators have released a detailed report on the lavish lifestyle and money spent by the couple. It is reported that in 2020 Svetlana alone spent around £1.1 million, while their combined official income was just €260,000. Apart from this, the couple spent a month-long holiday in a huge villa in the south of France. Here he used Rolls-Royce Corniche for his commuting. He once spent £150,000 a month to rent a villa there and paid 82,000 euros to charter a cruise. The couple’s birthday party in Istanbul alone cost 157,000 euros.
Accused of earning billions of dollars through corruption
Investigators say that our investigation proves that this is corrupt money coming from government contracts. He claimed that Ivanov is now earning money by supervising construction projects in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The ACF was founded by Putin’s foe Alexei Navalny, who is incarcerated in a Russian prison after surviving a deadly nerve agent attack. The ACF alleges that Ivanov and his wife own a house in Russia worth millions of roubles. Apart from this, this couple has made billions of dollars in wealth. Among his properties is a huge mansion on the banks of the Volga River.
