Mishustin awarded the journalist of “Kommersant”, who called the prime minister’s billions legally acquired

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin presented the government’s media award to Dmitry Butrin, deputy editor-in-chief of Kommersant, in honor of Russian Press Day. Representatives of the Kommersant newspaper became laureates for covering the economic situation in Russia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.

One of Butrin’s materials was text on the financial condition of Mishustin, which is published under the heading “The Prime Minister as a Conservative Investor”. In the material, Butrin writes that the new prime minister made his finances legitimately on deposits, the bulk of his cash income is the result of conservative investment over the past ten years of income earned before 2010 in the computer business and in the management of structures now controlled by Deutsche Bank.

Butrin’s article came out three days after the Anti-Corruption Foundation published a text about the wife of then newly appointed Prime Minister Mishustin, who “earned” almost 800 million rubles in some mysterious business. Mishustin has headed the Federal Tax Service since 2010, and during this time his wife Vladlena Mishustin declared 789 million rubles, while not a single legal entity was registered to her.

“It’s impossible to find anything about her on the Internet. But every year she regularly earns a million dollars, then two, then four. On what? How? Mystery shrouded in darkness wrote authors of the investigation.

Three weeks after this material, the FBK published a large investigation about how Mishustin actually made a billion dollar fortune and became the owner of a huge amount of luxury real estate for almost 3 billion rubles – of course, on Rublyovka, as well as in New York.