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    Questions over lifestyle of Putin's aide and his wife's $10m property empire

    Exclusive: Revelations revive concerns over couple’s wealth and potential benefits of close relationship with Russian president
    by Luke Harding and Jon Swaine in New York Feb 06, 2019 5 minutes
    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Tatiana Navka, a former ice dancer. Research suggests the couple’s assets are far greater than previously reported. Photograph: Valery Sharifulin/Tass

    The wife of Vladimir Putin’s press spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has accumulated a property empire worth well over $10m (£7.7m) and is designing a riverside palace on an exclusive Moscow estate, the Guardian can reveal.

    The project is being overseen by a Russian tycoon who has previously done business with Donald Trump, documents show.

    The disclosures are likely to raise fresh questions about Peskov’s wealth and how he and his wife, Tatiana Navka, seem able to afford a super-affluent lifestyle.

    Russian opposition leaders have repeatedly criticised Peskov’s lifestyle since his celebrity wedding in 2015 to Navka, a champion ice dancer who won gold for Russia in the 2006 Winter Olympics. A Russian citizen, she lived and trained for more than a decade in the US.

    Though wealthy in her own right, research led by , together with the Guardian, suggests the couple’s assets and spending are greater than has been

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