Putin: Roldugin trying to do business, but it’s not billions – RIA Novosti

PETERSBURG, April 7 – RIA Novosti. Cellist Sergey Roldugin whose name appears in the documents of the Panamanian law firm of offshore schemes, “trying to do business”, but it “is not billions of dollars” , said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Now as Sergei Pavlovich Roldugina … very creative person. Many creative people in Russia, I do not know, every second, maybe, if you pay attention, try to do business . as far as I know, Sergei Pavlovich, too “, – Putin said at a media forum ONF, responding to a request to comment on the so-called offshore scandal involving major Russian businessmen, officials and relatives of President of the Russian Federation

“but what is the business he is a minority shareholder in one of our companies, and there is some money to earn, but it is certainly not billions of dollars, nonsense, nothing like some earns..”, – said Putin

The German Sueddeutsche Zeitung published earlier documents allegedly Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, who, according to the newspaper, according to the involvement of a number of world leaders and their entourage to offshore schemes. The authenticity of the documents has not been confirmed. The list in particular featured the names of Russians, allegedly close to the Russian President Vladimir Putin: businessmen Suleyman Kerimov, Arkady Rotenberg, Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev, the wife of the press-secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov – skater Tatyana Navka, cellist Sergei Roldugin. For most of them have already been made refutation by their representatives or by Russian officials.

Despite the fact that no evidence directly to the Russian president was not publications, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the main purpose of the publication of ICIJ, which he called an injection of information, Putin is, especially in the context of the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. On Wednesday, the portal WikiLeaks, which specializes in the disclosure of sensitive information, said that the publication of documents in Panama funded by the US Agency for International Development, and George Soros, and its purpose is to Russia and the former Soviet Union.