IHe is one of those who put Vladimir Putin in power. Former oligarch Sergei Pugachev, 59, once head of Mejprombank, shipyards and coal companies, was close to the Yeltsin family in the 1990s. In 2000, it was he who pleaded for Putin’s candidacy to President Boris Yeltsin, then looking for a successor. Pugachev, nicknamed at the time the “banker of the Kremlin”, rubbed shoulders with Putin during his first two terms. But his relationship with the Russian president deteriorates the day Igor Setchine, a close associate of Putin, tries to seize his companies. In 2013, a Moscow court even ordered Pugachev’s arrest.
Refugee in Nice since 2015 and victim of several assassination attempts, he…
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