Arkady Nikolayevich Ponomarev he is the richest of the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian region of Voronezh. A member of United Russia, Vladimir Putin’s party, and founder of Molvest, one of the country’s largest dairy products companies, Ponomarev declared last year a net worth of 199.49 million rubles – about 2.6 million euros a year. current exchange- and various real estate properties, including three apartments of 151, 155 and 178 square meters in Spain.
Ponomarev is one of the seven Russian politicians and businessmen with properties in Spain who have been sanctioned by the European Union for his ties to the Kremlin. As revealed by the newspaper El País, the deputy appears linked to four properties in Alicante that he has been unable to access since April 23 for having voted in favor of the resolution with which Russia recognized the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent. , the two areas that make up the Donbas region in which, since the end of March, Putin has focused his war efforts on Ukraine.
A few weeks ago, Arkady Ponomarev himself acknowledged in the Russian media Daily Storm that he had been affected by the EU sanctions that prevent him from having his homes in Spain. Despite everything, and according to this newspaper, the deputy and businessman did not seem too worried.
Ponomarev, he told the Daily Storm, did not even know the condition of the “three apartments” whose ownership he declared to the Voronezh Duma. He claimed that he acquired the property from him only two years ago, so, according to this media outlet, it didn’t bother him to be without them if the Spanish government finally “expropriated” them.
“Any similar apartment in Moscow or Sochi is much more expensive,” Ponomarev told the Daily Storm. “And even if we assume that I will have this loss, I will continue to vote the way I voted. This is not a vital issue for me. It is almost Even if something breaks or my car has an accident, well, that’s a shame, but so what?
According to the same information, there are three other properties blocked by the Spanish authorities in Alicante, which is the second province with the most assets affected by sanctions on their Russian owners. The province with the most blocked properties -eleven- is Gironaeight of which belong to the stepdaughter of Sergei Chemezov, director of the Russian state arms corporation.
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Alicante, and the Costa Blanca in particular, is one of the favorite places for Russian citizens to settle in Spain. In fact, in the province there are about 25,000 citizens of this country registered. This can be seen in luxury developments such as Altea Hillsan urban conservation entity in which it is estimated that around 25% of the residents are of Russian nationality.
Among his neighbors is an important official of the most important gas company in Russia and the daughters of the former Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2019 a television program discovered that the very president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, chooses a home in this area to spend the summer months.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.