Putin’s other daughters import elite wine into Russia, bypassing the EU and customs rules
In November and December 2022, Alexey Repik’s Ryatiko company, the owner of R-Pharm, a large pharmaceutical holding, imported collection and elite wines to Russia for large sums of almost four million euros, despite the arrival in Europe in relation to such products. it should from the investigation of The Insider. It says that Alexei Repik is a friend of the daughter of President Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova.
After the start of the invasion of Ukraine, the EU imposed a ban on the supply of roads to Russia for 300 euros. At the end of 2022, Ryatiko imported at least 800 bottles of the rarest wines, the purchase prices for which exceed one million rubles per unit. As it turned out in the text, the question of such purchases is not so big in terms of money, what is the difficulty of choosing such wines, which can be produced in the amount of a couple of hundred bottles per year. In the collection of “Ryatiko” there were wines of the 20th century – the harvest of 1929, 1947, 1961 and 1984.
The wines were not publicly sold, but they can be found in restaurants owned by Repik and Ivan Sibirev, the former general director of a major Gazprom contractor.
For the import of “Ryatiko” customs services that pass the sanctioned wine as an action for certification. The prescribed standard is “no more than 2.5 liters of each item,” but Repin’s company imports dozens of liters of wine, underestimating the customs value.
From the outside, intermediary companies are taken for bypassing, which transfer wine from producers to excise warehouses in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, from where they get to Russia according to various schemes. One of them is a fictitious crossing through Russia to other countries of the Customs Union.
As previously alleged in the Important Stories and Der Spiegel investigation, Repik, who is associated with the youngest daughter of Katerina Tikhonova, in particular claimed that she used a business jet owned by Repik’s offshore company.