'Putin Is Corrupt' Says US Treasury Department

 'Putin Is Corrupt' Says US Treasury Department

The US Treasury Department to investigate the BBC that Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt.

The US government has already imposed sanctions on Putin's aides, but it is believed that this is the first time it has directly accused him of corruption.

His spokesman told the BBC that "none of these questions or issues needs to be answered, because it is pure fiction."

He said last week that the UK public inquiry Putin was "probably" agreed to the murder of former spy Alexander Litvinenko.

Secret Wealth:

 Litvinenko, a former member of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent and fierce critic of Putin, was poisoned in London with radioactive polonium in 2006.

Said Adam Szubin, who oversees the sanctions, the US Treasury Department, the BBC's Panorama Russian President rotten and that the US government has known this for "many years."

He said: "I saw him enrich his friends, his close allies, and the marginalization of those who he is not seen as friends by using the state-owned assets Whether it's Russia's energy wealth, whether it is in other government contracts, managed by those who said he believed that they serve and excludes those who do not it. For me, this is the image of corruption. "

The US government imposed sanctions against a number of insiders in the Kremlin in 2014, and said that Vladimir Putin was the secret investments in the energy sector. However, the Americans did not directly accuse him of corruption at the time.

Sanctions - later expanded to include more individuals and organizations - coincided with a similar EU measures against Russia. It was the trigger them to admit Russia to the Crimea, during the political turmoil in Ukraine.

 

Speaking US Treasury Department Adam Szubin of "the image of corruption."

Officials of the United States government was willing to be interviewed about the wealth of President Putin, but Mr. Zubin agreed to participate in the BBC program Panorama investigation into the case.

Mr Zubin would not comment on the report of CIA secret of 2007 that put Putin in wealth around the $ 40bn (£ 28bn). But he said Russian President may collect secret wealth.

"It is assumed that draws a salary from the state something like $ 110,000 a year, and this is not an accurate reflection of the man's wealth, and he had a long time of training and practice in terms of how to hide the actual wealth."

The Kremlin denies the allegations. In 2008, President Putin delivered personally claims that it was the richest man in Europe, saying: "It's just nonsense they just picked up all of them from the nose of a person and smeared it across their papers a little bit."

 

Offshore company:

 But insiders panorama former Russian who say they have directly from Vladimir Putin, the wealth of secret knowledge occur.

Dmitry Skarga, who used to run the state shipping company Sovcomflot, and says he oversaw the transfer of $ 35M Yacht Putin. Skarga was for Olympia 57m gift from the most famous Russian Britain - the owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich he says.

 

The Kremlin says the allegations against President Putin is "pure fiction"

 "It's a fact that Mr Abramovich, through employee has, and the transfer of a yacht to Mr. Putin," he said. "I was on board the yacht at the end of March 2002, in Amsterdam. There was a representative of Mr. Abramovich ... He said that Roman is the owner of the yacht."

Says Skarga Olympia then given to Russian President through an outside company. Then oversaw the management of the yacht Vladimir Putin and reports prepared on the boat running costs.

He said: "This continued the yacht and paid for operating costs of the state budget."

Skarga says the yacht kept secret because he personally belongs to Vladimir Putin, and not to the state.

Abramovich request panorama for the yacht. He denied claims by his lawyer as speculation and rumors.

President Putin refused to be interviewed for the panorama.