Russia's youngest billionaire has allegedly fled the country to Dubai with the wealthy daughter of an FSB general amid sanctions facing oligarchs in Moscow.Sanctioned Kirill Shamalov, who staged a lavish party for his 40th birthday in the UAE, was formerly married to Katerina Tikhonova.
The 35-year-old is the Russian president’s high-kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ acrobat dancing second daughter. The pair wed in secret in 2013 and stayed together for five years.“While everyone in the country is tightening their belts, and business and industry are entrusted with key roles in saving the economy, Vladimir Putin's former son-in-law, billionaire shareholder of Sibur [petrochemicals giant] Kirill Shamalov, is burning his life,” reported VChK-OGPU Telegram channel.
Shamalov's new partner is reported as Anastasia Zadorina, 33, daughter of a powerful secret services general in the FSB, playing a key role in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
She hosted his lavish 40th birthday party at the Burj Al Arab tower in Dubai, far from the sanctions gloom in Moscow according to reports.
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