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canetoad

(17,152 posts)
Mon Jul 23, 2018, 09:24 PM Jul 2018

Couple more Russian links

This OP by Roland99 sets out links between Putin's daughter, DeVos and a couple of other well known players.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210915778

Doing some Googling, here's an interesting article from early February 2016. * Fasssen is Maria Putin's married name.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4877-new-investigation-sheds-light-on-putin-s-eldest-daughter

New Investigation Sheds Light on Putin’s Eldest Daughter
Published: Monday, 01 February 2016 18:03
Written by Stella Roque

The other shoe has dropped, as regards the highly private family of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.

Maria Vladimirovna Faassen, Putin’s eldest daughter, allegedly lives the life of a very wealthy woman despite a career as a medical researcher, according to an investigation published by Russian magazine The New Times.

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Faassen is married to Dutch citizen Joost Jorrit Faassen who came to Moscow in 2006 to work for Gazprom as director of business development. By this time he was already seeing Putin's daughter, according to The New Times, although the public was not familiar with him until an incident in 2010 where he was severely beaten by the bodyguards of banker Matthew Urin after an altercation with them on a highway. The guards were all jailed and three of Urin’s banks had their licenses revoked. The prosecutor’s office also appealed the rulings against them in favour of increased prison sentences. Urin has been sentenced in Russia for bank fraud.

The New Times neither specifies the date of the couple's marriage nor when Faassen adopted her husband's name, although she signs her scientific publications under his name. She has also given birth to a daughter, Mary, according to the report.

Faassen is now head of a charity project known as Alfa-Endo funded by the Alfa Group together with a fund to support the development of philanthropy, KAF, to help children with endocrinological diseases.

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