Putin's secret palace has a casino, slot machines

Publicly, Russian President Vladimir Putin has an aversion to gambling. But according to leaked images allegedly depicting the president's palace on the Black Sea, his personal feelings may be quite different.

The images are part of an investigation published Tuesday on YouTube and on the Russian opposition leader's blog Alexei Navalny. They seem to show that the $1 billion luxury palace includes a casino, a strip club and a game room with slot machines and arcade machines.

According to Navalny, a Kremlin critic, the palace was paid for with funds stolen from the Russian state by Putin's inner circle. In his two-hour YouTube video, which was viewed 3 million times within two hours of publication, Navalny called it "the biggest bribe in the world.

Falsified charges

An anti-corruption activist was arrested on his return to Russia from Germany over the weekend. Navalny accuses Putin of ordering to poison him with Novichok nerve agent in August - an attack he barely survived.

On Monday, a Moscow judge sentenced Navalny to a 30-day jail term for violating the terms of his parole for embezzlement, which could now lead to years in prison. Navalny says the charges are trumped up and politically motivated.

At the same time, huge sums of money were being used to build the Black Sea Palace, according to an open letter in 2010 to then-President Dmitry Medvedev from exposing businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, who now lives in exile.

According to the letter, this was private investment money intended to fund health care contracts and other projects.

Private town

Navalny's images show an ornate casino room decorated with board games. The mansion also has a theater and an underground ice rink, and there are vineyards and even a church on the grounds.

“There are impregnable fences, their own port, their own guards, a church, their own permitting system, a no-fly zone and even their own checkpoint at the border. It is a completely separate state within Russia, ”Navalny says in his video, which was recorded before his arrest and then published.

“This is the most secret and guarded facility in Russia,” he adds. "This is not a country house or residence - this is a whole city, or rather a kingdom."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency on Tuesday RIA Novosti, that all of Navalny's claims are untrue.

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