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Mar. 16th, 2022 12:54 pm
The Kremlin was once built to a large extent by Italian master builders. Whether that also animated Vladimir Putin is speculation. But an Italian architect is also assigned to him, Lanfranco Cirillo from Brescia. The 63-year-old architect built Putin’s controversial palace on the Black Sea coast. Cirillo lived in Russia for a long time, where he worked for the super-rich. But now Italy has him back – at least in the sense that the public prosecutor’s office in his hometown of Brescia is hot on his heels for alleged tax evasion.
The 63-year-old is said to have steered around 50 million euros past the Italian tax authorities between 2013 and 2019. The financial police Guardia di Finanza recently searched his luxurious property in Brescia and confiscated more than 140 art objects, according to Italian press reports. Among them were works by Picasso, Cezanne, Kandinsky and de Chirico. Cirillo also no longer has access to his helicopter, which he liked to pilot himself.
