mo4ch:>Russian prosecutors claim corrupt official secretly owns record $150 million worth of property | Mo4ch News

The Russian general prosecutor’s office claimed that a Moscow region official, who is being investigated for embezzlement, is secretly a record-breaking multimillionaire. His attorneys claim the report is nothing but a smear.The prosecutors intend to ask a court to seize and confiscate the property of Aleksandr Shestun, which it estimates is worth 10 billion rubles ($150 million), they said on Wednesday. The wealth allegedly owned by him through a complex network of dupes and intermediaries, includes 565 land plots, 111 houses and apartments, and 22 cars, according to the spokesman for the office, Aleksandr Kurennoy.The Russian anti-corruption law allows seizing the property of officials, who cannot prove legal ownership. If confirmed and authorized by a court, Shestun would break the record in terms of how much gets confiscated. The current record – or rather anti-record, considering its nature – is held by Dmitry Zakharchenko, a disgraced interior ministry official, whose family las…