Igor Putin is a first cousin of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
20 Facts About Igor Putin
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Igor Putin is the Chairman of Igor Putin Fund, an investment company supporting and developing the industry in outlying regions of Russia.
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Igor Putin was born in Leningrad to the family of a Soviet military officer Alexander Putin, a younger brother of Vladimir Putin senior, father of the Russian President.
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Soon the family moved to Kovrov and then to Ryazan, where Alexander Putin served as an instructor in Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School.
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Igor Putin graduated from Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1974.
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In 2005, Igor Putin moved to Samara to become the chairman of the Samara Reservoir Plant.
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In October 2006, Igor Putin changed his political affiliations from the United Russia to A Just Russia political party, but his political uplifting was halted by his cousin who did not want to develop nepotism within the government.
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In September 2010, Igor Putin became Vice President of Master Bank.
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Still, Igor Putin held the vice president position only a few months and retired in December 2010.
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Igor Putin was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Igor Putin's retirement coincided with a criminal investigation in which over 30 million Russian roubles was allegedly stolen from the bank by its employees using IT technologies.
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In March 2011, five days after conclusion of the investigations Igor Putin returned to the bank as a director.
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Igor Putin keeps his position as a director of the AvtoVAZbank.
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Igor Putin was director of the Board of the bank at the time of the scandal, and had previously served as Vice-President.
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Igor Putin was a director of Land Bank, and declared to Forbes Russia that he quit this position when he grew uncomfortable about the suspicious activities of the bank.
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The UK company Lantana Trade LLP, owned by Igor Putin, was the company that triggered the attention of the whistleblower Howard Wilkinson who broke the story after he noticed Lantana Trade was filed dormant in the UK while millions of dollars were going in and out of the company's bank account in Estonia.
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The Russky Zemelny Bank, in which Igor Putin was an investor, shut down that same year for suspicious activities related to a 20-billion money-laundering affair.
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Igor Putin resigned from the Board of Directors of the Russkiy Zemelny Bank, Promyshlenny Sberegatelny Bank and the construction company Yakut.
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Igor Putin's son is Roman Putin, a businessman who set up the Russian firm Putin Consulting in March 2014, and launched the Russian Railways corruption scandal the following month.
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Igor Putin has a niece, Vera Putina, sometimes erroneously referred to as the niece of President Putin.