Putin vineyard claims untrue, top aide says
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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin’s spokesman yesterday dismissed media reports that the Russian leader owns a luxury Spanish villa where he is planting a vineyard.
A report on Thursday on Britain’s Daily Mail website alleged that the 62-year-old Russian president is planting a vineyard to produce his own exclusive wines on the grounds of a multi-million-euro mansion outside Marbella.
The Daily Mail cited its own sources and a report in an English-language news website in Spain, Olive News.
“No, this is not the case, it’s an unoriginal joke,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Echo of Moscow, a popular radio station.
“This doesn’t correspond to reality,” he said, adding that the reports discredited a “respectable publication.”
“Unfortunately journalists lately have not been showing their best side ... and do not demonstrate high professional qualities,” Peskov said.
Putin, who last year declared an income of just over US$100,000 (at the exchange rate of the time) and property limited to a 77-square-meter flat, is regularly reported to have luxury property and a massive hidden fortune, claims denied by the Kremlin.
In 2011, a businessman alleged that a lavish holiday complex was being built for Putin’s private use on the Black Sea coast, although government officials denied this.
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