2016-01-26 — independent.co.uk
From their exiles around the world, they spoke to the BBC for a Panorama investigation into the alleged corruption of the most powerful man in the world. Here's what we learned.
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Sergei Kolesnikov told the programme he worked for the Kremlin to collect money from the super-rich, which they believed was to be spent on healthcare, but which was ultimately used "to help build a $1 billion palace for Mr Putin on the Black Sea coast".
Corruption is by and large how business gets done in Russia and much of the world (yes, even more than in the U.S., possibly), but we suspect these are overblown allegations. And why just now, with Russia under assault from the West for not toeing the line in Ukraine and Syria, rather than, say, four, or eight years ago?
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