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Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft utilizes dozens of young women who supply escort services, paying them high wages from the business budget, late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalnys team said in an examination published Thursday.Any female has the right to make her own options, to generate income and to manage her own body as she chooses.
The line between individual privacy and public accountability is erased the minute that you go into the civil service.
And this is precisely what is taking place here.
The women were going to talk about today are paid from the spending plan of a state-owned business, Team Navalny wrote.Team Navalny examined a roster of Rosneft employees, that includes full names, birthdates, salaries and other information, and cross-checked the records with telephone and cops databases, escort service websites and social media profiles.In total, they discovered a couple dozen young female Rosneft employees who also appear on escort websites or are noted as escorts in dripped databases.According to Rosnefts employee register, Anastasia I., 28, works as a primary expert in the corporate residential or commercial property department and was paid almost 2.5 million rubles ($25,400) in 2024.
Mobile phone records obtained by Team Navalny reveal her contact information saved under names such as Escort Yana, Beauty 50%Tatar Piter [St.
Petersburg] and Anastasia, 19 years, 167 [centimeters], weight 52 [kilograms], breast size 4.
She also has a page on an escort website called Skin Market, Team Navalny said.Alexandra A., 27, is noted as a consultant to Rosnefts service supervisor who was hired in 2024.
Her profile can also be found on an escort website.Elizaveta was worked with at Rosneft as a secretary at age 21 and worked there for two years.
Her contact number was discovered in escort firm contact lists and she is determined by her physical attributes in dripped phone contacts.One of the women, Yana, was listed as a sex worker in a leaked police database, Team Navalny said.Albina Ivanova, the deputy head of the businesss organization management department, was hired as a 21-year-old in 2016 with a beginning wage of over 300,000 rubles ($3,000) per month about twice as much as more knowledgeable hires at Rosneft, Team Navalny said.
According to investigators, she has actually made at least 33 million rubles ($335,624) over the past nine years.Beyond her wage at Rosneft, she received another 300 million rubles ($3 million) from Independent Oil and Gas Company, a business belonging to CEO Igor Sechins associate Eduard Khudainatov where she has been noted as an employee given that 2017, Team Navalny said.Ivanova and Sechin have actually taken a trip together on his personal jet 58 times in the past nine years, Team Navalny said, pointing out flight tracking services, public announcements about Sechins trips abroad and Ivanovas own Instagram Stories where she typically documents her travels.Among the ownerships shown on Ivanovas social networks posts, private investigators counted at least 25 Herms bags in addition to high-end watches, precious jewelry valued at millions of rubles and high-end foreign cars.Team Navalny stated it declined to publish the womens last names, passport information and social media accounts for ethical reasons.Neither Rosneft nor Sechin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, have actually discussed the allegations.





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