In Latvia, several dozen real estates belong to Russia and Belarus – countries ruled by aggressive dictators. These are historic houses, plots of land and apartments worth many millions of euros.
Baiba Kļava: “Do you happen to know who lives in apartment 44?
Neighbor no. 1: I don’t know…”
There are sanatoriums in our country that belong to both the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and his close ally Alexander Lukashenko. In addition, Latvia has paid benefits to one of them.
Iveta Strupkāja, Acting Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia: “We did not have any legislative norms that would prevent us from paying the specific sums of money to the hotel “Belorusija”.
Meanwhile, the country has so far taken possession of only one property belonging to Russia.
Beāte Livdanska, researcher at the Institute of Foreign Policy of Latvia: “It’s not just property, it’s the activities that are carried out there that need to be looked at.”
What properties in Latvia belong to the dictators of Russia and Belarus, who rule in increasingly aggressive neighboring countries? And why did the responsible authorities transfer benefits from our taxpayers’ money to a sanatorium owned by Alexander Lukashenko a few years ago? We are investigating it Open fileu in half an hour.
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