“We have identified 6,000 people who we believe have made a significant contribution to the war. These are people who, through their direct and indirect actions, made this war possible – they are key Putin officials, key propagandists or key corrupt officials who support the war and incite to war “. This was stated by the right hand of Navalny Leonid Volkov in an interview for the program “Brussels 1” on Bulgaria ON AIR.
“These people are responsible for the current terrible situation, for the terrible war, and we want them to feel the suffering in the first place. We want them to be sanctioned, to be unable to enter Europe, to lose their assets in Europe. But beyond that, we We believe that the sanctions imposed on them are likely to contribute to more cracks in Putin’s circle, because for the first time our proposal includes not only the top but also the middle levels – deputy ministers, district governors, government officials and middle echelons of government agencies. For them, their house in Bulgaria or their villa in France or their hut in Latvia are not only a way to hide the money they stole, but also their retirement plan, which is their whole life, and they probably stole several million euros. and they have invested in some real estate. The real chance that they will no longer be able to travel and use their retirement money – may affect their judgments, may affect their approach, “he added.
“Putin’s inner circle is made up of his closest friends who have studied and worked with him. They are all around 70, but the middle echelon in Putin’s government is much younger. They have to think. “They need to know about their life after Putin,” Volkov said.
Asked what positions they hold today, he replied: “Key positions in the army, in propaganda, in the system of mass repression. Of course, in the system of corruption. These people have already begun to think what their future will be after Putin. Do they they will be considered war criminals or people who have nothing to do with this regime, many of them will do everything possible to avoid being included in the list of those sanctioned, they will resign, publicly condemn the war, they will leave the country. will make the Russian regime less efficient and less successful. “
He stressed that there are about 1,100 Russian citizens in total in all the lists of those sanctioned.
We are talking about different lists – the European lists under the Magnitsky Act, the Ukrainian lists related to the war, the American lists “Magnitsky”, the Canadian, Ukrainian, British, Australian, Japanese, New Zealand lists. So, in total, there are about 1,100 people, “he explained.
“Putin has a huge but underestimated network of influence in Europe. Gerhard Schroeder and Karin Kneisel are just two very clear examples, but there are many more. Putin has something like a real collection of members and former members of European governments serving his states. companies such as Francois Fillon.The former French Prime Minister is a member of the Board of Directors of Zarubezhneft. Among others is a former Prime Minister of Finland. people who visited Crimea in 2014 and then worked hard to explain to the West that the referendum justifying the annexation of Crimea was perfect and truly democratic. be carefully dismantled and this is a separate big project “, Leonid Volkov commented.
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