They spilled to the ground from the age of twelve. The mat in which to turn each other over with their backs on the "tatami" was that of Judo and Salso, their favorite martial disciplines. Friends for the skin in what was then still Leningrad, later transformed into St. Petersburg. It is in the early 1950s when the two Rotenberg brothers, Arkady and Boris, meet a shy and reserved peer of theirs, Vladimir Putin. The older of the two brothers, Arkady, born in 1951, does not take long to forge a very close relationship with his almost peer, the future Tsar of Russia, born in 1952. They practice "sambo", a martial sport born in the then Soviet Union , as if it were a religious belief: 'self-defense without weapons'. The exact opposite of today's story.

Sardinian dacha dossier

To reconstruct the dossier of the "dacha" in Sardinia, in the secret hermitage of Punta Capaccia in Porto Cervo, to put together the common ambitions and desires of the three boys, it is necessary to take a leap into the past to reunite relationships and acquaintances, business and ties in the story of those boys destined to make a career. The two Rotenberg brothers linger for a while in sport, to the point of making it a springboard for profession and, then, business, lots of business. Vladimir, on the other hand, professes his nature by throwing himself headlong first into the secret services and then into politics. Between them there is a tacit and secret agreement: Putin will take care of state affairs, they, the Rotenbergs, of private affairs. It is difficult even to think that they have put something in black and white, it is impossible to assume that the three have some pact signed by the notary with which to regulate their "very strong" friendship.

Blood pact

Certainly between the three there is a blood pact that is worth much more than any notarial contract. But no one ever dared to say explicitly what they thought of that triangle of friendship, politics and business. In 2014, after the invasion of Crimea, both the European Union and the government of the United States of America raised very heavy sanctions against Arkady Rotenberg, the older of the two brothers, the only one with a Russian passport. The United States of Barack Hussein Obama, having no particular patriotic ties, also subjected the younger of the two brothers, Boris, born in 1957 to sanctions. , they have accumulated enormous amounts of wealth during the years of Putin's rule. " Under accusation are the direct contracts of the Russian administration to friends of the Tsar, including about 7 billion dollars for the construction of sports facilities for the Olympic Games in Sochi. The American indictment, however, never explicitly spelled out the back-thinking of US intelligence. The document merely stated that the two brothers were acting "for or on behalf of ... a senior official" of the Russian Federation.

Money from the Kremlin

In reality, the reports from the Kremlin's vaulted rooms recorded an unprecedented flow of money towards the companies, in clear and dark, of the Judo brothers, the same ones to which the documents trace the exclusive and ghostly villa in the proscenium of the Costa Smeralda. One fact is enough: in 2013, just before the American and European sanctions, one of Arkady Rotenberg's corporate groups received government orders for the construction of a gas pipeline between Russia and Europe with a stratospheric figure of 40 billion dollars.

The Rotenberg system

According to the archives of Mossack Fonseca, the famous Panama accountancy firm cleared of all documents with the Panama Papers scandal, two of the shadow companies, and probably all three, were controlled by Arkady Rotenberg, Vladimir Putin's Judo partner. And it is precisely those documents in the Panama Papers that focus on the very secret relations between Vladimir Putin and the two Rotenberg brothers, considered, among the oligarchs, the closest and most connected to the Tsar of Russia. Alexey Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger at the head of the Russian extra-parliamentary opposition, will break the delay.

Shock video

Without too many preambles he publishes on youtube, unleashing more than 120 million views in less than a year, a shocking video with which he directly accuses Vladimir Putin of having had a castle built in the Crimea on the extreme coast of the Black Sea, a dacha overlooking the sea. for a thousand and one nights. The video of that villa with its gaze turned towards the sea triggers an uprising on social media, so much so that Putin himself has to intervene: that dacha on the Black Sea is not mine. It does not stifle doubts, rather it feeds them, the confession of his Judo companion, Arkady Rotenberg, who declaring the ownership of that building, tries to move the gun barrel on himself, obtaining, however, the opposite effect. For the whole world, that palace belongs to Vladimir Putin. Navalny is poisoned, he is saved, but now he is locked up in the Tsar's homelands.

The ghost of Porto Cervo

In Porto Cervo, however, silence reigns. On that exclusive ghost villa, a bunker from every point of view, hidden from any terrestrial observation among the pink granite of Punta Capaccia, a long shadow rests on the property as secret as it is dark. The reconstruction of the changes in ownership, the cross-referenced documents between those of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism and of the Navalny Study Center itself, puts a seal on our investigation: that castle hidden in the extreme point of Romazzino, among the green meadows that have become roofs, is directly related to the Rotenberg family, Vladimir Putin's shadow brothers.

Sardinian secrets in Cyprus

The circumstances are marked by the document that we have taken directly from CYPRUS CORPORATE REGISTRY, the database of what is not declared a tax haven but which, in reality, is in all respects, starting from the secrecy codes used to cover billionaire capital, companies obscure and excellent names. To understand where the property of the villa immersed in the turquoise sea of Porto Cervo is hidden, it is necessary to reconstruct the direct links between Cyprus and the Rotenberg family. All the offshore of the Judo brothers are "entrusted" to Cypriot secretaries and directors. Nominal de facto subjects, coverage of real property owners and immense assets. All of these companies, including Ferimod investments, are created by the Cypriot law firm Kinanis LLC, its employees and their closest relatives. To trace the owners of the villa that belonged to the magnate Carlo de Benedetti, climbed and classified on the extreme tip of Capo Capaccia in Porto Cervo, it is necessary to set up family and corporate crossroads worthy of a real international intrigue. After all, the Sardinian dacha in the name of the Cyprus company was affected by the first wave of seizures and sanctions in 2014. The excess of corporate complication stems from the attempt, so far successful, to secure the princely residence of Porto Cervo. An attempt that failed on the same access road as Romazzino to the other oligarch Alisher Usmanov who of the three unheard-of luxury villas, bordering the secret hermitage of Putin's playmates, no longer has even one, all of them. three frozen by the Italian state.

The secrets of Punta Capaccia

That the "ghost" villa in Porto Cervo can be traced back to the "Rotenberg system" can be deduced from one name above all, that of Eleni P. Kinani, in fact the CEO of the company that registered the secret villa in its own assets . This is none other than the sister of Christos Kinanis, the founder of the studio who has been following all the corporate practices of the Rotenbergs' worldwide trusts since 2003. They are the ones who handle all the family operations: aviation and shipping, financial services, migration, real estate, courts, taxation, trusts and even - remote gambling. To register the Rotenberg companies use a plethora of relatives and employees placed at the service of the secrecy of the properties, including the one overlooking the turquoise sea of the Costa Smeralda. Behind these operations, the intelligence services even record the compromise of a Cypriot government minister who allegedly worked to block any investigation into the Rotenberg study. Meanwhile, new revelations are gathering on the villa in Porto Cervo, including the far from remote hypothesis of underground tunnels dug into the rock directly connected to the sea. In the Russian dacha the powerful shadow of Vladimir Putin is lengthening more and more, from the Black Sea to the Costa Smeralda.

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