Another Secret Putin Villa Revealed: Money Wasted Because He Wasn’t Interested In Fishing
It turned out that the $3.2 billion villa built in Finland for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, exposed to successive Western sanctions with the invasion of Ukraine, was abandoned.
According to the Businnes Insider story based on the Russian press, the money and efforts spent on the luxurious villa that a close friend of Putin built for Putin in a fishing village on the shores of Lake Saimaa, Finland, were in vain. It was claimed that the construction of the three-story villa with a wine cellar, billiards room, swimming pool, sauna and 8 separate bathrooms was left unfinished after it was understood that Putin was not interested in fishing in Finland.
“Vladimir Putin’s billion-dollar villa awaits him in Finland, but he’ll probably never use it,” Business Insider said.
The reporter Sergey Kanev of the Russian site The Insider, who captured the construction plan of the villa, visited the luxury residence with the door open and saw the rooms full of construction materials. According to the news, Finnish workers, whose wages are not paid regularly, also left work on the villa unfinished, and some did not want to work on the construction of the house built for Putin.
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The person who built the villa was alleged to be Viktor Kemarin, a close friend of Putin’s from Leningrad State University and married to the Russian leader’s cousin. It was noted that Kemarin, who is the head of Russia’s largest hydroelectric company, had the villa built to spend more time with the Russian leader, spending thousands of dollars on construction and security.
The newspaper reported that Kemarin backed out of the plan when he learned that Putin, a fan of nature sports, was not interested in fishing in Finland, and that there was no buyer for the unfinished villa.
Opposition media in Russia had previously claimed that Putin had hidden luxury residences in different countries, including Russia and Finland. Last week, images emerged of the secret bunker attached to Putin’s luxurious residence on the Black Sea coast.