What newspaper described a man who says Villa Sellgren is owned by Vladimir Putin as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most"
Villa Sellgren Villa Sellgren is a house and estate on Lodochny Island in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. It was designed by the Finnish architect Uno Ullberg and completed in 1913. The house was a location used in the shooting of a Russian version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "His Last Bow" in 1986. It was part of national forest reserves until 2012 when it was rezoned to allow construction. According to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the house is owned by Vladimir Putin through friends.
Alexander Smolensky Alexander Pavlovich Smolensky (Russian: Алексáндр Пáвлович Смолéнский ) (born July 6, 1954) was the founder and president of one of the largest private banks in Russia - "Bank Stolichny" (later known as SBS/AGRO) which collapsed in the 1998 Russian financial crisis wiping out its investors' savings. When asked what he owed his investors he replied: "dead donkey ears". In 1999, Russian prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest including charges of embezzlement and money laundering. This warrant, however, was later dropped. He currently controls the newspapers "Kommersant" and "Novaya Gazeta".