A former Russian deputy prime minister who resigned from Putin’s ministry and fled the nation due to the invasion of Ukraine has been spotted in Israel, where he has ‘obtained citizenship’ following a poisoning scare.
Anatoly Chubais, 67, once the Kremlin chief of staff, is the highest-ranking official to have defected from Putin and was first photographed in Tel Aviv.
During the summer, after departing Russia, he was hospitalized in Sardinia due to a poisoning fear that surrounded him.
After renouncing Putin and resigned as the Russian leader’s ambassador to international organizations in March, Chubais became ill with severe numbness in his arms and legs after leaving the country.
Chubais, a former Russian deputy prime minister, was hospitalized in Sardinia due to a poisoning scare in the summer after fleeing Russia over the Ukraine conflict.
Chubais is the highest-ranking official to abandon Putin. Left is Chubais and right is Vladimir Putin.
His ailment was subsequently identified as the rare neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome, but Italian secret services allegedly continued to examine the case amidst allegations that Putin’s agents had poisoned other ‘enemies’
Independent Russian media site ‘We Can Explain’ has stated that both Chubais and his 53-year-old film director wife Avdotya Smirnova got Israeli passports.
According to the study, this entitles them to travel and reside in Europe without visas.
In March, Chubais resigned as the Russian leader’s representative to international organizations and departed the country.
According to sources, both Chubais and his 53-year-old film-maker wife Avdotya Smirnova got Israeli passports.
Chubais has been observed in Italy, Turkey, and Cyprus since leaving Russia. Additionally, the couple visited Israel in the spring.
A post from the anti-Putin General SVR Telegram channel claimed that Putin’s draft hit list included Chubais, but provided no evidence to support the assertion.
The list allegedly contained enemies of Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian security council and a close associate of the president.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Chubais played a crucial role in privatizing the Russian economy.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Chubais played a crucial role in privatizing the Russian economy. Chubais, left, and Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation from 1991 until 1999, are shown.
Chubais was eventually diagnosed with the uncommon neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome, but Italian secret services allegedly continued to examine the case amid allegations that Putin’s spies had poisoned many ‘enemies’
Putin’s 41-year-old ‘goddaughter’ Ksenia Sobchak is also known to have received an Israeli passport since the beginning of the war.
Until 2020, he led the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation for 12 years (RUSNANO).
Lithuanian mother Raisa Sagal was the source of Chubais’s Jewish ancestry.
Putin’s ‘goddaughter’ Ksenia Sobchak, 41, a popular TV personality and past presidential election candidate, is also reported to have gotten an Israeli passport since the beginning of the conflict.
She used the passport to leave via Belarus to Lithuania in the European Union, but returned after receiving assurances that Putin had not issued an arrest warrant.
Ms. Sobchak has known Putin since childhood, when her father, the then-mayor of Saint Petersburg, named the ex-KGB agent as his deputy.
In August, she reported for the first time that Chubais had developed acute numbness in his limbs and legs
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