Italian tax police seized $144 million in art and other assets from the architect who designed ‘Putin’s Palace:’
Italian Tax Police Seized $144 Million in Art and Other Assets From the Architect Who Designed ‘Putin’s Palace’August 4, 2022Italy’s tax police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced that they have seized more than €141 million worth of assets from architect Lanfranco Cirillo, whoCirillo’s lawyer confirmed that his client was the “well-known professional” in Brescia, Italy, who officials accused of tax violations in a statement, but insisted Cirillo was not guilty “of any wrongdoing regarding...
This is not the first time that Cirillo has been targeted by Italian authorities. In February, officials raided the architect’s villa in Roncadelle, near Brescia, for allegedly failing to pay a €50 million tax bill, and subsequently seized a cache of works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Lucio Fontana, Paul Cézanne, and Wassily Kandinsky on the premises.
Digital reconstruction of the courtyard of ‘Putin’s Palace,’ as seen in a January 17 YouTube video posted by Alexei Navalny.that the architect made his fortune in Russia, where he claims he has completed projects for 43 billionaires as well as the high-profile state companies Gazprom and Novatek, and is therefore not required to pay taxes in Italy.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny first brought news of Putin’s so-called “New Versailles,” designed by Cirillo, to light last year the luxurious manse purportedly owned by Putin, and called for protests against government corruption.
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