The TASS agency reports that the journalist and presenter has left Russia after her home was robbed this Wednesday over an alleged case of extortion
The journalist and television host Ksenia Sobchak, goddaughter of Vladimir Putin and daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoli Sobchak, who was the main mentor of the Russian president, is said to have fled Russia and is a refugee in Lithuania, a country where she arrived via Belarus. This was reported by the TASS news agency, stating that the events took place after the actress’s home was raided last Wednesday in an alleged case of extortion involving the commercial director, Kirill Sujanov.
The aforementioned media outlet indicates that there is no procedural order against Sobchak, although she is wanted by Russian authorities following the arrest on Tuesday of her colleague Sukhanov, who was taken to the main directorate of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs after opening of a trial against him for an alleged extortion of 11 million rubles from Sergei Chemezov, executive director of Rostec and very close to Putin.
According to investigators, Sukhanov demanded this amount in exchange for the removal of a negative message on a Telegram channel from former Tatler editor-in-chief Arian Romanovski, who, according to unofficial data, has also been charged in the case. “Obviously this is a raid on my editorial office, the last free office in Russia, that had to be suppressed. I hope it’s all really a misunderstanding,” the journalist said earlier on Telegram.
On September 12, Russian police checked one of Sobchak’s Telegram channels looking for “LGBT propaganda” after an interview with Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina, who this summer revealed she was a lesbian.
Although the late mayor of St Petersburg Anatoli Sobchak was the political mentor of the current Russian president, his daughter Ksenia has been involved in liberal opposition politics for several years and ran against Putin for the presidency in 2018. The Telegram station The Journalist, which regularly broadcasts critical reports on politics in Moscow, has 1.4 million followers, but she continues to generate controversy among critics of the regime, as some accuse her of having ties to the Kremlin.
Source: La Verdad
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