AFTER ANOTHER SCANDAL INVOLVING PATRIARCH KIRILL, RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES FSB IDEA TO CLASSIFY INFORMATION ABOUT OWNERS OF YACHTS AND PLANES
Portal-credo.ru, 7 October 2015
The Commission on Legislative Activity of the government of the RF on 6 October supported a draft law proposing to classify information about owners of real estate, airplanes, and boats, RBK reports, citing its own sources.
According to the document, besides owners and their representatives, only relevant state bodies will be able to get access to information.
It is noted that the draft law was introduced by the Federal Security Service (FSB). It now should be reviewed at a session of the government, after which it will be sent to the State Duma.
Information from the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate at the present time is publicly accessible. However, according to FSB reports, information from the register can be used for criminal or compromising purposes and for the creation of alternative data bases. It is noted that a similar situation exists also for the State Cadastre of Real Estate, the Unified State Register of the Rights to Aircraft, and other boat registers.
At the end of September there appeared in the press more scandalous photos of the head of the RPTsMP in which he is pictured at the helm of a luxury yacht and in shorts before attempting to dive into the sea. (tr. by PDS, posted 8 October 2015)
PATRIARCH KIRILL SPOTTED IN SHORTS ON ELITE
680,000 EUROS
YACHT—NEWS MEDIA
The social network movement Otkrytaia Rossiia
published on
the Internet photos supposedly from the vacation of RPTs Russian
Patriarch
Kirill on a luxury Azimut yacht that cost about 680,000 Euros.
A photo with a man very similar to the Russian patriarch was
made approximately a month ago by a vacationer.
The elite Azimut yacht, at whose helm was a man who looks
like the church figure, was spotted in the sea between the
villages of
Dzhankhot and Divnomorskoe of Krasnodar territory of the RF in a
place called
Blue Gulf.
By a fortunate coincidence, on that day border guards were
not protecting the "patriarch's rest" and they did not drive
away
excursion boats.
In another picture "a gray-haired old
millionaire,"
similar to Patriarch Kirill, was hitched to a
cable, obviously intending to dip
into the water.
Otkrytaia Rossiia [Open Russia] notes that the
price of a
similar Megellano 43 starts at 440,000 Euros, and this is just
the price in
Europe. In Russia, a Magellano 43 costs 680,000 Euros and more.
The website also recalls that this summer
Patriarch Kirill
was spotted at his Black Sea dacha, which also is located near
the village of
Divnomorskoe. "The story of its construction does not even serve
so much
as a guide to excesses, greed, money-grubbing, and incivility as
much as it
deserves a couple of dozen volumes of a criminal case,"
Otkrytaia Rossiia
notes.
The construction of the dacha, which began during the time
of Alexis II, was accompanied by unlimited lies both on the part
of the RPTs
itself and on the part of state agencies. There was talk first
about a
"hotel for pilgrims," then about a "spiritual cultural center,"
then generally about some kind of fancy health resort, almost a
brothel,"
Otkrytaia Rossiia notes.
However in contrast with his predecessor, Mr. Gundiaev not only is not reluctant to vacation lavishly in Divnomorskoe but also, as local residents describe, is not reluctant even to use the FSB coast guard for security during swimming and sailing adventures.
Journalists sent an inquiry to the RPTs regarding the disclosure of information about the so-called "patriarch's dacha," but no answer was received.
"In general, waiting for an answer from the RPTs regarding the Black Sea dacha requires a very long time. And criminal cases with respect to the seizure of territory of the state forests, blocking the shore with a strong fence, felling of Pitsundsky pines, failure of foresters and ecological inspectors to do their direct duties, and so forth and the like goes yet further," the authors of the article note.
We recall that in June Kirill showed his personal luxury yacht on which he arrived at the Russian city of Ples.
Several years ago journalists noticed another of Kirill's yachts, an exclusive Pallada vessel built in shipyards of the Dutch-Russian consortium Timmerman Yachts in 2003 using the design of the Dutch architect Guido de Groot. (tr. by PDS, posted 8 October 2015)
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