In mid-March, two men entered the Alta Mira villa in Biarritz and unfurled a Ukrainian flag there. It must be said that this luxury mansion, located on the seafront, belongs to Kirill Shamalov, a Russian businessman who is none other than the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova, the youngest daughter of President Vladimir Putin. But also the son Nikolai Terentievitch Shamalov, very close to the master of the Kremlin who is nicknamed “Putin’s banker” and whose name appears on theblacklist of russian oligarchs covered by the European Union.
This house, built under Napoleon III, has just joined the list of frozen property and assets of Russian oligarchs by the French tax authorities, indicates Nice morning. A large part of these luxury accommodations are located in the Alpes-Maritimes, the Var or even in Courchevel.
It is neither seized nor confiscated, but its owner can temporarily no longer have access to assets and economic resources, this villa can neither be rented nor sold. In mid-April, Bercy had indicated that the freezing of real estate assets of relatives of the Kremlin was estimated at more than 570 million euros.