Kremlin spokesman dismisses ‘Putin’s Palace’ investigation and warns against donating to Navalny’s non-profit

In this case, the president is being imputed for ownership of a property that doesn’t exist. All of the president of Russia’s property is declared by him annually and stated by him in a declaration also published annually. This material from yesterday — there’s nothing new presented there. You know that this topic was thrown around three or four years ago. And in fact, in this case here, it’s the same conversation. They’ve already tried to use these insinuations repeatedly. And often without even burdening themselves with some at least minimal attempts to somehow prove something, [or] at least to illustrate it. Perhaps the only novelty is that they’ve used such edited stories here. There in the pool in some palace is a pieced-in shot of Putin, who’s swimming in the Yenisei. Shots that — when Putin swam in the Yenisei — went around the world. 

At the end of this marvelous material there’s an account number with a request to transfer money there. It seems to me that this is probably the main task of materials like this and similar pseudo-investigations. This too is mainly a scam. And we warn all citizens, especially given such a large number of views: think before transferring money to these, for all intents and purposes, crooks. Because these crooks are constantly improving their methods for withdrawing money from the population. Think long and hard.

These are all absolutely unfounded statements. This is pure nonsense and patchwork, and there’s nothing else there.