Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by e40 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:49AM
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What is known publicly is certainly an indication that he is criminally wealthy. I can't find the reference right now, but there's a Russian bureaucrat close to Putin that makes a small salary, yet he has a large villa in Italy and many other properties, totally many millions of <insert currency> of net worth. There was even a Russian citizen that was documenting and publishing the info and using drones to video him at his Italian villa. I wish I could find that link, it was fascinating.
Ah, found it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/europe/russia-dmitr...
The video, with English subtitles, as almost 24M views:
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by MisterBastahrd on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:30AM
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Putin doesn't need to be personally wealthy. He's got the largesse of the Russian government at his disposal and a populace which has been conditioned for generations to support the person in power.
Nobody has managed to prove Putin is sitting on the claimed wealth and Putin / his circle has denied it. I seriously doubt anyone is going to step forward with the evidence necessary to prove it, for obvious reasons.