Sergei Pugachev - on Putin, Swiss banks, KGB and oligarchs

[@mallafets]

In a nutshell one crook is being squeezed by a bigger crook.

[@jeffarchibald3837]

I'm guessing he stole the money in the 90s.

[@MTMF.london]

He and all the oligarchs plundered the Russian state assets with the help of Putin.

[@Serbinator_Dominator]

Absolutely. Then he sells and tells Putin il never come back, but to Putin that’s treason. I agree with Putin

[@danielweiss4498]

You cant steal what was already Stolen

[@stellabrown909]

Hard to claim that money….they are gonna dance to the end.

[@balsarmy]

Just like Putin?

[@deborahharris2962]

Sergei Pugachev "made most of his fortune borrowing from state banks and bondholders, and not repaying. After ten trials before the UK High and Court of Appeal, eleven British judges judged that Pugachev was a liar, guilty of deceit and dishonesty."

[@randomtux1234]

no need for Uk judges to conclude THAT. just watching this low life creep for like 3 minutes, i concluded all that all by myself, then funnily enough read the same in the comments

[@deborahharris2962]

@@randomtux1234 hilarious. Swiss court did the same. He's a liar and a thief.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

That does not seem to embellish the point the Producers desire. But thanks for that insight. How difficult is it to find someone who is pissed off at Russia Today?

[@birdofprey108]

bot protecting putin?

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@birdofprey108 Putin does not need any extra protection. You do need to offer some proof of your claims. Or are you incapable of forming complete sentences?

[@Oshowski]

Swiss banks always dirty . I really think it’s time to do something about it.

[@stellabrown909]

Yes indeed!!! Remember it’s all stolen money.

[@stephensuddick1896]

Dizzying. Corruption on a dizzying scale.

[@dubinatub1]

Amazing he still lives

[@danielweiss4498]

He lives in a democracy now , where are human rights in place

[@liakayte7734]

@@danielweiss4498 not democracy but corruptcracy ...how you make so much money, if just from doing something illegal.

[@lettucesalad3560]

Hold on.. I'm still trying to shed a tear for this oligarch's sufferings.

[@dancroitoru364]

yes, the poor guy worked hard to steal a port and a few refineries in just 10 years before Putin arrived. how can he survive with only 7.5 billions now?

[@scientifically5812]

What a nice, clean guy....Such a honest....

[@dancroitoru364]

yes but he can't use any chair in his house - all of them are mined - hahahaha

[@Skippernick1957]

Swiss banks need to come clean on Russian money hidden in their banks

[@justaroot4315]

Yes...and the truth about Nicholas II's heirs as well. The massacre story is part ofthis BS. Never found Michael Romanov's body...and allegedly a Peter I descendants bloodline also being used as pawns for these shadow players and their shadow rulers. Vatican very much involved in these games also. So much "capital" business within Vatican and Rothschilds.

[@NadiaSawicki-lt1uf]

It's Belgium that has the most Russian assets.

[@milanradovanovic3693]

This show is idiotic attempt to make Pugachev a victim were in fact no one asked him more important question...How did you came into posession of those assets in 1990s in the first place...Later on Russia at least payed him large percentage of his assets value,at his demand,but he obtained all those assets in 1990s probably for less then couple of millions back then... The show itslef was probably both ordered and payed by Pugachev...Now he wants justice and leagl state when he was becoming a rich man totally oposite was in his favour...

[@d23bw]

Good point.

[@filmawayvlad]

That’s a good one)))

[@silvykara2927]

Just to clear some things up...when the USSR fell, many opportunists, "smart guys" or "the blue eyed" found it easy to buy for nothing state assests that later on were sold at very high prices. This, didn't only happen in fromer USSR/ Russia, but also in its satellite states. Corruption (particularily this kind of system corruption) was the main reason why some eastern block countries took long to enter the EU. Even now, things are not yet cleaned in the state system but in Russia it stayed the same with Putin. This guy is just one of many and most likely the reason he came out was because somebody wanted to get rid of him (like many jumped out the window, died in car crashes etc.). It is good he managed out, because the Russian people deserve to know what happened to their money, why the bolshevics messed them up so badly, why they suffered for so many years.

[@peterhewitson]

"And what about the war in Ukraine? - That's not Russian affairs that's world affairs!" - Such hypocracy!

[@c2225]

He meant that he is watching it! He said he is not interested in what happens with Russia, not that he doesnt care about the war.

[@paololuckyluke2854]

What’s the point of having fancy furniture if nobody can sit in it?

[@irokoolajide7432]

😂😂

[@dominicrooney5638]

Greedy and despicable old man wont have his money in the grave ☠️

[@webMonkey_]

This man is a crook and should be in jail. However it’s likely he is an asset of the French.

[@geraldkniendl1105]

I financed the Kremlin with my own money end of quote😂 and 😂

[@tokyo.peking]

First second and i hear "MY ASSET OF 20 BILLION" !!! My ?? After that i read wiki and "Pugachev borrowed 5500 roubles from his colleague Egorov, promising to buy a new car. According to Pugachev, his father had the opportunity to buy the car. Egorov saw neither the car, nor the money. The day after the sentence was pronounced, Egorov was attacked by unidentified persons" What a character,ha ?

[@c2225]

LOL

[@louisvalois3863]

This man is a failed money-hungry oligarch, even in his eyes you can see that he is lying to protect his own interests and billions. What sins could he have that he won't tell on camera?

[@poohoff]

Not as many sins as any politician like Biden

[@janstapaj9689]

​@poohoff I guess Biden get so many sins but Trump is such good man .....😂😂😂

[@aachoocrony5754]

​@@janstapaj9689true, on a scale of 1 to 10 for corruption, Trump is a 1, Biden is a 7 or 8.

[@birdofprey108]

bot protecting putin lol

[@aachoocrony5754]

@@birdofprey108 your school sucks. Should transfer to a new one.

[@kaminip]

Great interview. An eyeopener and cryptic for sure. Why did he want to be interviewed? That is the question.

[@scarletred8888]

I'm not sure he wanted to be interviewed, they never even sat down

[@pedrocoentro2009]

a man that doesn´t have anything to loose, or doesn´t mind loosing it...

[@MTMF.london]

@@scarletred8888 He certainly did not walk away. He talked, and talked, and talked for someone who didn't want to be interviewed and it was a long talk. He was even showing his residence around - right, no interview then. 🙄

[@dancroitoru364]

@@scarletred8888lol

[@NadiaSawicki-lt1uf]

Obviously he's peeved with someone.

[@rumin528]

I've listened his interviews with the Ukrainian top journalist Dmitry Gordon. He shared a lot of insight info on Puttin's character and modus operandi also about on the structure of power that Puttin had created.

[@christopheryellman533]

You listened to lies.

[@rumin528]

@@christopheryellman533 Why do you think you know better?

[@vijjreddy]

This is the story of a thief whose money was stolen back by those who are more powerful... sad story, though comical

[@cindiheaton1048]

👍 I thought that before even got to the end of this.

[@ibn6743]

Yes, I believe

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

Stolen from people they abused and killed and transferred to where they probably still have access and stole my inheritance and patents and ancestry records.

[@brianbozo2447]

Pugahev seems to be living in an apartment / mansion in NIce that must have cost millions yet he is a victim?

[@filmawayvlad]

Nice, Côte d’Azur is nice place to visor and long-stay. Like it all right there

[@davidtrindle6473]

Where there is a fortune, there is a crime.

[@456inthemix]

SERGEY PUGACHEV THE UKRAINIAN WAR THAT IS NOT RUSSIAN AFFAIRS, THAT'S WORLD AFFAIRS "Europe needs to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems. But the world's problems are not Europe's problem. Dr. S, Jaishankar

[@davidwright5094]

And then when a European politician dares to comment, even in passing, about any event outside Europe, the very same guy reverses tack and begins complaining about their "interference" allegedly being evidence of a "colonial mindset". --I.e. when European politicians are not failing by ignoring a problem, then they must be failing by interfering in a problem.

[@fidia_temple]

Anglo-american affairs...

[@Oshowski]

You obviously don’t understand how much this conflict affects the world. Grain shipping from Ukraine fed people from all around the world. Russian Oil and gas and its direction has complicated the situation for everyone. And there is the small item of theoretical nuclear winter.

[@MTMF.london]

Russian invasion is stopping Ukraine wheat/grain from reaching the rest of the world. And funnily enough too, the world's mass of poor are washing up ashore at Europe's beaches. What does your Dr S Jaishankar have to say about that? 🙄🙄

[@andrewnaumD]

Pugachev should be behind the bars not giving interviews

[@thegreatujo]

After Pootler. Yes. There's a hierarchy of criminality.

[@crocolagerfelden6142]

Typical Russian oligarch interior lol You can't buy good taste. His not supporting the war does not mean he is not a crook!

[@baqaqipekhebi7148]

Not the flag was thrown on the statue at the back of the house, just for the cameras 😂

[@John414]

This man is lucky 🍀 to be alive. And he might not be alive so much longer. 💀

[@TPath3]

Where are the Scripals ?

[@annacronk8872]

What a poor 😢 life of super rich person. All the money he had stolen from Russian people wouldn't be able to buy the freedom for him. He would be leaving in fear for the rest of his life

[@ivanson4522]

He has already lived an incredible and successful life, already a part of Russian history due to his former closeness to mister P.

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

@@ivanson4522And does not have a picture that was online of them selves wearing a name tag that says Beth of themselves wearing a black swimsuit and hooded with men in Skull and Bones masks holding a knife and human skull and stole my property and destroyed my phones and computers and server.

[@cashiskingCineLover]

A billionaire dissident, what kind of arrogance, hubris and hipocrisy on his part and the swiss...propaganda should be done with a little more taste in my opinion.

[@nikolaforzane2285]

LMAO .. "He [Friedman] has to bring his phone with him to calculate how much he spends and where" .. OH THE HORROR 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PatriciaPalmer-o3e]

Despite his wealth, he's surviving albeit in fine style, not living.

[@1mukulmukul]

He is most probably being protected by the host country and he has most probably comply with wishes of host country

[@MTMF.london]

@@1mukulmukul I bet a few million euros were "donated" to the host country's various charitable sectors.

[@JuliaCherdantseva]

His wife said in an interview that he did not give a penny to their children since they divorced many years ago. Pugachev is disgusting🤮

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

Unless his children did some very bad action against him , he should have at least given some monthly support payments to his children ; also , if his wife did no very wrong action against him , he should have given at least some small monthly payments to her .

[@servettaz]

His wife has her goals and agenda. Who can guarantee she is not lying?

[@katealison6087]

They weren't married but he's the father of her three children. She's a victim of domestic abuse. Just like Putin this man has narcissistic personality disorder.

[@ungarlinski7965]

Since she won't let him see them, he shouldn't. Let them live with him and she can give him money.

[@EdwardOlive]

Elegant gentleman

[@nabiabi3991]

A whole 26 mins of very poor journalism. Everything is prejudice

[@chaseschneier1076]

How can you tell if a Russian is lying?....

[@baqaqipekhebi7148]

Just watch him open his mouth and hear the sound that comes out!

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

He rushes his words 🤔

[@dancroitoru364]

Why do they stand while talking? Are they afraid the chairs might explode? -)

[@tourezaina5963]

😂😂😂

[@steveagola9317]

😂😂😂😂

[@dancroitoru364]

just kidding - they want to show that he did not order and paid for the interview. she just showed up spontaneously and he's "on the run" and not really happy to receive her. some idiots might believe that

[@syon600]

He is really not endearing to himself when he says he doesnt care about ukraine war, dismissing it as world affairs. No empathy for others plight.

[@machiradmachirad4597]

Good morning, happiness and roses scattered in English were a pleasure to apply

[@admiralbenbow5083]

Why dont they sit down? Maybe he has piles?

[@dancroitoru364]

he told her he doesn't want to get in trouble if a chair rapes her ...

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[@admiralbenbow5083]

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[@thegreatujo]

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[@marykay7878]

ive seen pugachev in a documentary about jeltzins election and a documentary about him and his ex-girlfriend and mother of his three youngest kids called the countess and the billionaire, and i gotta say, i find him super interesting and insightful. obviously i never know how honest he is when it comes to his own involvement and wrongdoings, but i find him very pleasant to listen to.

[@CindyKalbakdalen-zs9us]

The ruzian mobsters.

[@ArnyHoen-ml6xu]

😮 and your still alive bro 😅 thanks 🙏 the LORD ❤

[@DonnaCsuti-ji2dd]

Well he's alive now and he's old enough he doesn't have much life left anyway and he lives in luxurious style

[@k.1701]

Thanks for the interesting interview! This man is not supporting putin’s criminal war against Ukraine and this alone deserves respect.

[@John414]

So you support the USA 🇺🇸 ZOG ✡️ proxy war on Russia 🇷🇺? Why don’t you go to the front yourself. 🐷

[@amandarickets5448]

Ukrainian are Nazis. The US provoked Russia.

[@aachoocrony5754]

It's a US proxy war, another one in the long list of hundreds of coups and wars. Probably at least a dozen within the past year. Good morning.

[@MTMF.london]

He's as much a crook like other Russian oligarchs, made wealthy by plundering the Russian state with the help of Putin. He can say he isn't supporting the war because Putin has taken away most of his wealth and he's now in exile (and more or less safe).

[@clarettanijhuis8345]

You’re joking right?

[@kingkemet2527]

Bout to be an intriguing interview

[@yp3424]

I don't understand what kind of an interview is, from a standing position. So many chairs & sofas available in the luxury Nice villa, though no seat was offered to the beautiful journalist by the owner!

[@mtb5778]

This was an interesting interview but I found myself distracted by the beauty of Elena Servettaz.

[@christophercole8877]

…and how was Pugochev able to acquire all these former Soviet assets?

[@paulblack8887]

For a man who obsesses over Potemkin's bones, the name Pugachev must strike a chord.

[@filmawayvlad]

Cool shirt but quick words… in Chinese way to put it

[@akojejeko4838]

THAT IS this is a disgusting feeling to throw up

[@djkobusmusicsa3590]

Is she interviewing him on leading him on?

[@BillWoodillustrator]

Well that’s great- why don’t you show everybody where he lives? 😅

[@eurasiexpress5035]

Pouvez vous mettre le lien avec la version originale en russe пожалуйста

[@servettaz]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpy1dGWYbrKlq6s

[@swissinfo]

Here's the link to the original video in Russian: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpy1dGWYbrKlq6s

[@swissinfo]

You can now watch the video with the original audio by going to Settings->Audio Track->Russian

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

Sat 23 Sep 2023 : Mr. Pugachev ~ There is no such thing as an individual , private law claim in a French court against the government of Russia 🇷🇺 . No such animal .

[@NadiaSawicki-lt1uf]

Not yet.

[@user-rl3iv2jk9q]

@@NadiaSawicki-lt1uf Al-Hijrah , Ramadan / 18 March 2024 AD : Recently , Macron has lost his brain . I vote against NATO troops in ukraine. France , like the U.S. , is collapsing . The UK is gone .

[@lovagszent728]

What is the currency, when talking about those numbers: 20 billion, 200 million - EUR, UDS or rubel? - difference is significant

[@kayadelarenta4554]

Good question

[@pernilsson9749]

"Expropriations of assets"!! In now sitting second, we the peoples of the northern parts of Sweden, are the victims of the same seizing of our assets by the swedish state and its companies.

[@jamesfohare]

He listens he is quite aporachable.

[@МаринаБольшакова-ф1ф]

Ему нельзя не быть оллигархом среди мировых оллигархов иначе он не сможет вести с ними равноправный диалог как президент.Я абсолютно уверена и видя и наблюдая этого человека что для него дома,яхты,дачи-это лишь внешняя атрибутика.Перед собой,своим народом и совестью-это прежде всего президент своей страны своего народа.А в его плотном графике у него даже нет времени чтобы всеми этими материальными благами пользоваться.Люди не меняются с возрастом а всего лишь накапливают опыт и знания.Это русский российский человек бросившийся спасать русский народ на территории другой страны.Среди других президентов есть хоть один такой смелый и сильный человек который бы имея все бросился защищать русский мир во вне страны а не бросил на произвол судьбы?это равносильно тому что мужчина бы прошел мимо когда обижают женщину или бьют ребенка.Это мужественный и очень порядочный человек и мы должны ему верить и поддерживать его в трудную минуту и помочь в решении задач,иначе какие же мы русские?бросающие своих!?

[@jairenesereno4519]

Very interesting. He is just like yeah everyone is corrupt.

[@kylle9224]

Oh I wish subtitles was used. Hate voiceovers😡

[@swissinfo]

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[@swissinfo]

We've now added the russian original track so you can listen to the original without voice over by going to Settings->Audio Track->Russian

[@kylle9224]

@@swissinfoStill voice over, I prefer to listen when they speak Russian!!!!

[@servettaz]

@@kylle9224 in russian kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpy1dGWYbrKlq6s

[@lizanderson1669]

😅😅😅😅😅 Get him Vlady Daddy

[@telluwide5553]

These oligarchs crack me up. They rob the country blind under Yeltsin in the 90's through bribes, kickbacks, etc. When Putin does it to them, they cry foul.😢 Please! These guys just should be happy to be alive, living in the West and still enjoy lives of luxury.... In other words, cry me a river Seriozha...😅

[@DS-zr8pw]

Translation of Pugachev's last sentence: "I'm apolitical".

[@baqaqipekhebi7148]

Classic Russian line!

[@servettaz]

and that's why his has a Ukrainian flag in his house

[@cosmiceye9357]

This guy has no morals.

[@blisssing8449]

He has the reasoning and eyes of a sociopath. One day his children will learn he chose to fight for money rather than them. I'd have walked away from it all to be with my family and rebuilt from scratch. None of it was actually really his anyway.

[@angelevstatiev8522]

Здравейте никой не съм карал да си превръща финансовите потоци във долари 2023😊

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

focus on divine central authority

[@matsfrommusic]

The song that is playing is great, what is that?

[@swissinfo]

It's an instrumental version of this song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXq9Z3-QhLmeick

[@matsfrommusic]

@@swissinfo Thank you! 👍👍

[@Heavy_Distortion]

8:32 he points to fake bookshelf that slides open to a panic room. Very James Bond.

[@marlon_88]

He looks like Vladimir Lenin. 👀😅

[@Kabcmjsh_jsdk_18]

Это не могло быть построено им. Это имущество СССР. Дядечка его приватизировал и решил уехать. Ему имущество не отдали. Все ок.

[@balsarmy]

Какое СССР, его нет уже 30+ лет

[@pclairoot]

Poor little Pugachev ! Wasn't he the banker of the Russian Orthodix Churhc? How much moeny has he stachted away in Switzerland, Monaco and tax havens?

[@akojejeko4838]

That is a Bullshot TEATHRE!! That- HE IS a RED RUZZIA GAUNER!!!!

[@vovaboo5018]

Pugachev : here is an advise... Putin: how about an investment?

[@RoyTra-d1w]

Well lets start with ship building company how much its worth 10 Billion well yake from u for 7.5 😂😂😂😂 Putin a Beasts

[@ronniechauvin]

The Greed💯Very Sad💯

[@foleymark4563]

Oh really! And all the other world leaders are not lining their own pockets! Putin is just wiser than his counterparts, and still making mother Russia prosperous!

[@MTMF.london]

Mother Russia prosperous?? 🤣🤣🤣 Only the family, friends and cronies of Comrade Putin are prosperous (by stealing from the state) 🤣🤣🤣

[@videos_not_found]

Why are they always standing? On the run?

[@dancroitoru364]

it's a gimmick for idiots: to pretend the interview was impromptu as if he never expected her visit and he's "on the run" and not really happy to welcome her in. that only shows the opposite: that the piece was totally ordered and paid by him.

[@swissinfo]

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[@michaelholder3933]

He didnt have any complaints until his ability to steal was stopped. No credibility.

[@stellabrown909]

They just move money around like a handball…who scores here? Yo!!!! This is crazy

[@douglaslillifield2917]

so nice to see the self-serving meet their Karma......lying and stealing among' friends'. He probably got his enormous assets for a dime in the '90's when the USSR's assets were distributed among the connected like mr. Pugachev.

[@rev.philthyphil6839]

Don't fall out a window 🪟 psycho

[@danielmaia6135]

Maybe this man is totally innocent and somehow made his money 1 million percent legitimately..... But this man is so guilty and the fact that he thinks that he could simply sell all his assets and walk away from this....

[@MTMF.london]

No, he's not innocent and did not make his money legitimately. He and all the oligarchs plundered the Russian state assets and just because they had the complicity of the President (Putin) and his cabal does not make it legitimate.

[@Fineword]

Pathological thief, stealing from the people. Never enough money, endless greed. I have no sympathy at all with him. Served him well.

[@judyweeks1480]

Seems he keeps his options open with POOtin. Don't trust this guy as far as I can spit. Could the Ukrainian flag be any smaller? Better be careful going to POOtin's dacha, ask Prigozhin.

[@mithunkartha]

Out crooked by a bigger crook 😂

[@DonnaCsuti-ji2dd]

Hmm I don't think I'll ever trust a Russian agency agreement bank etc etc after watching this

[@iii9237]

its not only putin lol. all the people who have power and money include we know all

[@dukeandkathyify]

How did he make so much money? Just for this lavish lifestyle? He did not work for it but rather stole it!

[@irokoolajide7432]

How can I know Putin and be his boy😂. Putin can make one rich in a Day

[@RainierArtist]

This stuff somhow algorythmed i to my youtube feed. Ive never heard of an oligarchs or what they do. I dont study on Ruusia. Ukraine any of it i think the USA needs to stay out of it.

[@stephen2975]

What country would put up with individuals fleetingly their county! A least Putin is a patriot!

[@MTMF.london]

Putin's a patriot for sitting on his pile of stolen billions and sending other people's sons and daughters to fight his dirty wars? 💩💩💩

[@Людмила-к1я2у]

Откуда его банк взялся

[@halitosis75]

Don't give him any oxygen

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[@halitosis75]

@@swissinfoHAVE YOU READ THE COMMENTS? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME . GET A LIFE

[@pernilsson9749]

Seams as this fellow suffers some uncertainties and suspecians?

[@Heegooat]

he is no cobra!

[@aushev]

Сливной бачок чей-то, затаскали по интервью френчи

[@colinbeck1285]

Nothing destroys wealth accumulation quicker than a nasty divorce or a good Philadelphia lawyer. [ Donald De Mouse ]

[@khairulnaeim756]

Today KGB full of spoiled brats, become a world joke 🤣

[@zoya_11_65]

"Моих активов".. Всё понятно..

[@tabithawanjiru8570]

Hey