Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman on Monday dismissed a report that alleges close friends of the president hid some $2 billion dollars in offshore accounts.
The report, dubbed the “Panama Papers,” links hundreds of political leaders and celebrities to offshore companies set up through a Panama-based law firm called Mossack Fonseca.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the report does not have any relation to Putin. He said Putin appeared to be targeted because of Russia’s coming elections and what he deemed ‘Putinophobia.’
Peskov denied also that his own wife, former figure skating champion Tatiana Navka, had ever owned an offshore company …read more
Source: Voice of America
