Russia: Deputy PM Owns US$ 18 Million Flat in London, Navalny Says

17:46, July 24, 2015

Igor Shuvalov, Russia's deputy prime minister, owns a posh apartment in central London worth £11.44 million (US$ 17.7 million), says corruption activist Alexei Navalny. 

According to an investigation by Navalny's Fund for the Fight Against Corruption, Shuvalov turned two flats into a 500-square-meter luxury apartment, located in Westminster borough, an extremely affluent area of the British capital. 

Shuvalov's anti-corruption declaration for 2014 shows he was renting a flat in London, but Navalny says the documents he obtained from the British land registry shows Shuvalov owns the property, and his claims that he is only renting are "fictitious."  Read more... (375 words)

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