The secret life of the Dutchman who is said to be Putin’s son-in-law
In the first weekend of March, residents in the Duvendrecht neighborhood of Amsterdam fenced a plot of land Ukraine flag and “AveMariaPutin” written sticker and They were surprised to see a text in English.
“About 2,000 kilometers from your place of rest, your father is destroying free There is a country. It is impossible to convey our message to him… Please listen to your heart that, you will find your way to your father’s heart and you will stop this meaningless suffering. We beg you, Maria Putina, “the text reads.
The owner of the land was a 42-year-old Dutch citizen. Yorrit Faassen In an interview with the Dutch research website Follow The Money, a construction engineer named has not returned to his homeland for 16 years and Moscow said he lived a happy life. His Moscow The reason for his existence is the woman he is married to (or has been married in the past). We are talking about Putin’s eldest daughter Maria Vorontsovagoes from.
Kremlin Maria and hid his younger sister Ekaterina Tikhonova from the public. They are the daughters of Lyudmila, Putin’s ex-wife, whom he divorced in 2013.
In recent years, the media has shown great interest in these women. This week in the US and Europe The union’s sanctions have finally reached them and their photos graced the front pages of newspapers.
There is a lot of information about Tikhonova’s marriage to the son of one of Putin’s close associates. But the same cannot be said of Maria.
Current Time and “Medusa” Faassenin Moscow He learned that he lived in a luxury apartment complex near the Kremlin. But Faassen and Although Maria read the questions sent by journalists via Telegram, they did not answer them.
In an interview with a Dutch newspaper, Faassen denied that he was married to Putin’s daughter. But he is married to a Russian woman and said he had children.
An official close to Putin’s inner circle told Current Time and To Medusa, Faassen is now, in a way, trapped and He said he could not return to the Netherlands.
Maria, who holds a medical degree from Moscow State University, has published scientific papers under the name Maria Faassen. Now she uses the surname Vorontsova. USA and The name has also been included in several EU sanctions.
It is not known exactly where the Vorontsova surname came from. Her sister’s surname, Tikhonova, is the surname of Lyudmila Putina’s mother.
2010It was reported in Russia in November that, A Dutch citizen named Yorrit Faassen is fast in Moscow car in the case of falling in the way Matthew Urin was severely beaten by a banker named. A few hours after the incident, Urin and bodyguards Putin and He was detained by the Federal Security Service, an elite security service serving high-ranking government officials.
Urin was detained for more than eight years. Its network of banks went bankrupt. Urin’s driver and Each of the bodyguards was given a job for 2-4 years.
When Russia The press presented Faassen simply as one of Gazprom’s executives. Until 2016, no news item mentioned her name in connection with Putin’s daughter. In 2016, for the first time, Novoye Vremya magazine wrote about this connection.
Uri’s driver’s lawyer told reporters about the strangeness of some procedures.
“… It was immediately known that, [Faassen] not an ordinary person. It was said that he had people in the FSB “– said the lawyer.
In 2011, Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper reported that he was a real estate management specialist at Gazprombank-Invest and later vice president of another Gazprom-owned company, Stroytransgaz. Newspaper Faassen 60 square meter office and He also wrote that he had been given a personal Lexus.
A person familiar with Putin’s inner circle is Faassen and Maria says she spent several months each year in the Netherlands until July 2014. That same month, Russian-backed separatists stormed the East Ukraine They shot down a passenger plane belonging to the Netherlands. Of the 298 people killed, 198 were Dutch nationals.
To the words of the person who did not want to be named according toafter this incident Putin of his daughter and insisted that his grandson always live in Russia.
“If Faassen returns to Europe, the situation will not be exactly good. He has been dragged into Putin’s inner circle. Articles are written about him, journalists tell him and call family members. That’s it according to it is impossible for him to return to the Netherlands “– said the person.