A little house of a gatekeeper. Mikhail Khodorkovsky has bought a two-stories flat in London for 2 million pounds
A little house of a gatekeeper. Mikhail Khodorkovsky has bought a two-stories flat in London for 2 million pounds
The website Prigovor.ru has found in Great Britain yet another house belonging to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On the whole, this finance swindler and collaborationist has in London and its suburbs five luxury real estate units with total value amounting to 24 million pounds or nearly 3 billion rubles.
December 20, 2023, marked exactly ten years since the former main privatizer of the oil company Yukos was pardoned and released from the colony where he had been put because of multibillion fraud and tax evasion. From that time on, Mikhail Khodorkovsky* has started to make himself comfortably at home in London. Naturally, he masterly hides all his assets and purchases. For the last two years, the team of the website Prigovor.ru has managed to find out 4 real estate units of the former oligarch, and now has managed to prove with documents the existence of the fifths (It’s important to know about Khodorkovsky’s real fortune, because, as of today, he is a fraudulent debtor. Over the years, the Federal Bailiffs Service has been trying in vain to recover from him more than 17 billion rubles. (See also the article on the website FLB.ru ‘Fraudulent Tax-Dodger”.)
See the Russian version at: «Домик привратника. Ходорковский* купил двухэтажную квартиру в Лондоне за 2 млн фунтов»
FIFTH ELEMENT. A MAN WITH A POUND STERLING
The website Prigovor.ru has found out that, on July 24, 2020, Khodorkovsky bought in his own name a house in the center of London, in the luxury residential compound St. Edmund’s Terrace worth almost two million pounds. Until now, there has been only rumors about this little ‘nest’ of Khodorkovsky, yet we have managed to determine the address, the price of the apartment and to get an extract from the UK real estate registry. Khodorkovsky’s love for comfort failed him: he wanted to restructure his little backyard, and in the request to the local authorities, his English agent honestly exposed the name of the ordering customer. So, now we can confidently say that 5 luxury real estate units with total worth amounting to 24 million pounds (nearly 3 billion rubles) are in possession of the fugitive debtor Khodorkovsky.
In the book written in co-authorship with Leonid Nevzlin*, his colleague and ordering customer of murders executed in the usual manner of the oil company Yukos, Khodorkovsky presents his real attitude towards Russian people – to the same people that he now promises to load with benefits.
‘Answer, why you outrageously throw hundred thousand rubles and dollars for delicacies? For that matter, it’s outrageous to share earnings with a tramp who is one million percent sure that he will not be allowed to die of hunger”, is written in his book ‘Man with a Ruble’ published in 1992.
A rather disrespectful extract with regard to ordinary citizens who work for a wage or salary and form the backbone of Russian economy. Although, it would be strange to expect real care for a ‘deep people’ from a man who has always been interested only in profit and personal income.
‘Our compass is profit … our hero – His Financial Majesty Capital, as it and only it leads to wealth’, write the co-authors in the same ‘folio’.
In his book, Khodorkovsky defines as ‘a man with a ruble’ a statistically average Russian businessman whose interests, according to the oligarch, is obliged to defend ‘a man with a rifle’, i.e. state institutions, first and foremost, a law enforcement system.
“A man with a rifle is vitally interested in prosperity of a man with a dollar. The Army defended the System which provided and guaranteed the possibility to live in high style’, ruminates Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky. Obviously, he dreams that also in Russia all branches of authorities will someday provide services only to a handful of well-to-do persons who spit upon other citizens.
Having emerged from jail, Khodorkovsky found himself in completely different dimensions. First, he flew to Germany, then to Switzerland, and, finally, settled in Foggy Albion. He transferred here from offshore accounts his fortune siphoned from Russia and started to form a comfortable little nest, while buying for himself, his family and for business purposes expensive real estate pieces. He opened up several companies and started to finance through them Russian opposition and produce films ‘in honor of himself’. Thus, as early as in 2015, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from a sham champion for Russian economy, definitely morphed himself into ‘a man with a pound sterling’
DETACHED GATEKEEPER HOUSE VALUED AT TWO MILLION
We have already written about the private estate Best Beech Place at the cost of 4.7 million pounds in the suburbs of London. (See the article ‘British Luxury of Khodorkovsky’)
We reported as well on ‘the house of Russian opposition’ near Baker Street which had been bought for 12 million pounds to carry out meetings of activists of ‘Open Russia’ and its fellow-travelers. (See also the article ‘The Place of Gathering of ‘Good Russians’)
In general, a whole collection of real estate objects belonging to Mikhail Khodorkovsky has formed in London and its luxury suburbs. Apart from these ‘gathering sites’, there is also a house in Richmond which can be used by Khodorkovsky’s elder daughter Anastasia, as well as a ‘safe apartment’ in the backyard of ‘Open Russia’ – evidently, reserved for overnight stops for retinue.
Now, the website Prigovor.ru has received information about the fifth important purchase of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In the center of London, on St. Edmund Street, 50, is situated a big residential premium compound, and its apartments were sold by the well-known real estate agency ‘Knight Frank’. Inhabitants of this complex have at their disposal a swimming pool, underground parking lot, concierge service, security personnel. This clubhouse consists of three buildings (blocks) with only several dozens of apartments.
Standing apart and located at the gates of this residence compound stays a quadrate two-story townhouse with additional basement floor. It is located literally at the front security gate – near the wicket and entrance gate to be seen by everybody. Perhaps, that is why it has the proper name Gate House. It has no number on it. Its apartments have views of the Primrose Hill, Shakespeare Park and the street of Saint Edmund, protector of Britain.
It’s this ‘gatekeeper house’ that Mikhail Khodorkovsky purchased for 2 million pounds. Nowadays, his real estate collection is worth 24 pounds sterling. How the design of the premises looks like – see on the infographic.
The total floor space of the Gate House is 111.76 square meters. The purchase was made on July 24, 2020, according to British real estate registry. The house stands out from the real estate collection of the oligarch – this is the only asset we know of that Mikhail Khodorkovsky has not hidden in an off-shore, but has registered in his own name.
According to documents, Mikhail Khodorkovsky has become, at least, the second owner of it. The first one was the developer himself who leased the house-apartment in 2015. In 2017, it was bought by the first owner about whom we will report later. Interestingly enough, in 2015 the apartment was estimated at 1.950.000 pounds, but in 2017 it went gown in value to 1.020.000 pounds. Now, after three years that Mikhail Khodorkovsky bought this apartment, it has become more expensive on the market and the price has gone up to 2.822.000 pounds.
In the advertising leaflet of the real estate agency ‘Knight Frank’ we could observe several peculiarities of the inner interior of the premises. Like an observation post, the house is equipped with French windows on all four sides. The upper floor is a studio which is not divided by any inner walls.
The kitchen is on the first floor. On the ground floor are located a master bedroom and a guest bedroom, a boiler room and a really humble in its size bathroom. Also there, on the semi-basement level, are placed two microscopic patio yards measuring 3.5 and 7.7 square meters. The master bedroom has a door leading to the bigger patio, and the balcony of the guest room opens on to the smaller one.