New newspaper investigation of Sechin's yacht. Novaya Gazeta talked about Sechin’s wife’s yacht the size of a football field. This is an order
Until today, the owner's name is St. Princess Olga was kept strictly secret. However, Novaya Gazeta discovered photographs from the yacht on social networks published by the wife of one of the most influential people in Russia - Igor Sechin. The details in these photos are very similar to those in St. Princess Olga. Moreover: the places in the photo coincide with the yacht’s route.
"Private party"
Igor Sechin divorced his first wife a few years ago. In June 2016, Life.ru published one of the closed parties at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Igor Sechin received guests at the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve. The head of the state company Rosneft was accompanied by a beautiful girl with blond hair. Novaya Gazeta found the profiles of this girl on social networks Facebook And Instagram. She turned out to be Olga Rozhkova, who, according to sources close to the Rosneft company, previously worked in the government apparatus when Igor Sechin was Deputy Prime Minister. We also managed to obtain documentary evidence that Olga Rozhkova changed her last name to Sechina in 2011, however, in order not to violate the law “On Personal Data,” we cannot publish the document.Olga Sechina works at the state-owned Gazprombank. Novaya Gazeta's source at the bank says that her annual salary could be approximately 35 million rubles. Judging by photographs on social networks, Sechina spends most of her time abroad. Her Instagram account contains many photographs from private jets, but even more from a yacht off the coast of the fashionable resorts of Sardinia and Corsica.
External similarities
On August 27, 2014, Olga Sechina posted a photo on Instagram from a yacht, where she was relaxing with a friend near a round jacuzzi surrounded by white sofas (Photo 1). On July 5, 2015, Sechina published a photo (Photo 2) in which she is sitting on the deck near the pool. On August 1 of that year, she posted a photo from the same deck, by the same pool (Photo 3). |
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Route intersections
On July 13, 2016, Olga Sechina published a photo from a motor boat with the geotag “Ibiza, Spain” (Photo 7). Three days earlier, a photo of the St. yacht was published on Superior Design's Facebook page. Princess Olga from the port of Adriano, in the Balearic Islands, near Ibiza (Photo 8). On July 14, 2016, the day after Sechina published a photo from Ibiza, Instagram user @carolfeith, who was riding in the area of the same Balearic Islands on a motor boat, posted St. yachts. Princess Olga (Photo 9). |
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How much does it cost
Novaya Gazeta interviewed several experts in the world of luxury yachts, and they all said that the exact price of St. No one knows Princess Olga except the manufacturer and the customer. Prices for megayachts depend on interior details and many other factors. But everyone agreed that St. Princess Olga costs at least $100 million. On the websites of companies that sell and rent luxury yachts, there are offers for similar vessels of the same class, the same year of manufacture and similar characteristics. The price for such yachts varies around 150-180 million dollars.Last year, the BBC agency, citing a decision of the Rosneft board of directors, reported that Igor Sechin’s salary with bonuses could be approximately $12 million per year. If these estimates are correct, then the head of Rosneft could hardly afford to buy such a yacht.
Theoretically, Igor Sechin could rent a yacht for his wife. But even with his officially high income, the rent of St. Princess Olga would have hit the family budget hard. Offers for weekly charter of yachts like St. Princess Olga, start at $1 million. And, judging by the photographs, Olga Sechina has spent quite a lot of time on the yacht over the past three years.
The press service of Rosneft did not answer Novaya Gazeta’s questions in substance. “The company does not consider it possible to answer questions regarding the personal life and property of employees beyond the requirements of the law, and cannot afford to create unacceptable precedents. However, your illegal collection and use of unverified and inaccurate information may result in legal liability. We regret that the content of your requests over the past month falls into the context of an obvious custom campaign launched against Rosneft and its leader,” the company said in a statement.
[ : Rosneft press secretary Mikhail Leontyev told RBC that the article in Novaya Gazeta provides a “comprehensive position” of the company. He did not elaborate on the details. - Insert K.ru]
By the decision of the Basmanny District Court of October 10, 2016, the information expressed in hidden statements that the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin is associated with one of the most luxurious yachts in the world was recognized as untrue and discrediting the honor and dignity of Igor Ivanovich Sechin, and therefore subject to refutation. - with the yacht “Princess Olga”; yacht "St. Princess Olga" is the property of Igor Sechin and/or his wife; Igor Sechin hides information about his foreign property; Igor Sechin's expenses significantly exceed his official income and the official income of his family members.
The secret of "Princess Olga"
How is the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin connected with one of the most luxurious yachts in the world?
Until today, the name of the owner of the luxury megayacht St. Princess Olga was kept strictly secret. However, Novaya Gazeta discovered photographs from the yacht on social networks published by the wife of one of the most influential people in Russia, Igor Sechin. The details in these photos are very similar to those in St. Princess Olga. Moreover: the places in the photo coincide with the yacht’s route.
In 2013, the shipbuilding company Oceanco from the Netherlands launched a luxurious and elegant yacht almost the size of a football field (85.6 meters). The vessel's hull is made of steel, and the above-deck structures are made of aluminum. The exterior of the yacht was designed by Russian designer Igor Lobanov, and the interiors were designed by elite designer from Italy Alberto Pinto. At the stern of the yacht there is a swimming pool, which, if necessary, turns into a helipad; on the upper deck there is a jacuzzi surrounded by soft white sofas for relaxation; There is a SPA room and an elevator inside the ship. After launching, the yacht received the code name Y708. But after it was handed over to the owner, the name was changed to St. Princess Olga (“Holy Princess Olga”). Today St. Princess Olga ranks 72nd in the ranking of the 100 largest yachts in the world. But experts in the world of luxury yachts believe that its main advantage is not its size, but its uniqueness.
"Private party"
Igor Sechin divorced his first wife several years ago. In June 2016, Life.ru published a video from one of the closed parties at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Igor Sechin received guests at the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve. The head of the state company Rosneft was accompanied by a beautiful girl with blond hair. Novaya Gazeta found the profiles of this girl on the social networks Facebook and Instagram. She turned out to be Olga Rozhkova, who, according to sources close to the Rosneft company, previously worked in the government apparatus when Igor Sechin was Deputy Prime Minister. We also managed to obtain documentary evidence that Olga Rozhkova changed her last name to Sechina in 2011, however, in order not to violate the law “On Personal Data,” we cannot publish the document.
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Olga Sechina works at the state-owned Gazprombank. Novaya Gazeta's source at the bank says that her annual salary could be approximately 35 million rubles. Judging by photographs on social networks, Sechina spends most of her time abroad. Her Instagram account contains many photographs from private jets, but even more from a yacht off the coast of the fashionable resorts of Sardinia and Corsica.
External similarities
On August 27, 2014, Olga Sechina posted a photo on Instagram from a yacht, where she was relaxing with a friend near a round jacuzzi surrounded by white sofas ( Photo 1). On July 5, 2015, Sechina published a photo ( Photo 2) in which she sits on the deck near the pool. On August 1 of that year, she posted a photo from the same deck, by the same pool ( Photo 3).
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The details in these photographs - the jacuzzi, the sofas around it, the pool, sun loungers, tables - surprisingly resemble the exterior of the St. Princess Olga ( Photo 4, Photo 5). Other photos from Sechina's social networks show that the yacht on which she spends time flies the flag of the Cayman Islands ( Photo 6). St. Princess Olga is also owned by Cayman Islands company Serlio Shipping Ltd.
Photo 4. “Princess Olga” / yachtforums.com 
Photo 5. Shot by @croyachting 
Photo 6 However, external similarities are not the only evidence that indicates that Olga Sechina uses the St yacht. Princess Olga. Novaya Gazeta analyzed geotags from Sechina’s photographs, as well as the yacht’s routes, and it turned out that in many cases they coincide.
Route intersections
On July 13, 2016, Olga Sechina published a photo from a motor boat with the geotag “Ibiza, Spain” ( Photo 7). Three days earlier, a photo of the St. yacht was published on Superior Design's Facebook page. Princess Olga from the port of Adriano, in the Balearic Islands, near Ibiza ( Photo 8). On July 14, 2016, the day after Sechina published a photo from Ibiza, Instagram user @carolfeith, who was riding in the area of the same Balearic Islands on a motor boat, posted video yachts St. Princess Olga ( Photo 9).
Photo 7. Olga Sechina 
Photo 8. Yacht in the port of Adriano 
Photo 9 On July 19, 2015, the wife of the head of Rosneft published a photo from Venice ( Photo 10). According to the portal vesseltracker.com, which tracks the movements of ships, exactly on the same day, July 19, 2015, the yacht St. Princess Olga ( Photo 11). (Portals like vesseltracker.com use data from AIS, an automatic identification system installed on ships, in their analytics.)
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Photo 11 On May 4, 2015, Olga Sechina posted a photo from the island of Capri on Instagram ( Photo 12). And again on the same day, May 4, the AIS system showed that the yacht St. Princess Olga was located near the same island of Capri ( Photo 13).
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Photo 13 On June 14, 2014, Sechina published a photograph of a picturesque rocky coast ( Photo 14). Her Instagram follower asked in Italian: “Where are you?” “Corsica,” Sechina replied. And again exactly on the same day, according to the AIS system, the yacht St. Princess Olga was near Corsica ( Photo 15).
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Photo 15 In total, we were able to find six unconditional matches in terms of publication time and geotags of photographs from the social networks of Igor Sechin’s wife with the yacht’s route. And these coincidences did not occur in one year, but continuously over the past three years. Moreover, we took into account only those cases when everything coincided - both time and place. But there were examples when the geotag from the photo and the location of the boat coincided, but the time differed by several days or a week. This may be due to the fact that Olga Sechina did not publish photos on social networks immediately, but later.
How much does it cost
Novaya Gazeta interviewed several experts in the world of luxury yachts, and they all said that the exact price of St. No one knows Princess Olga except the manufacturer and the customer. Prices for megayachts depend on interior details and many other factors. But everyone agreed that St. Princess Olga costs at least $100 million. On the websites of companies that sell and rent luxury yachts, there are offers for similar vessels of the same class, the same year of manufacture and similar characteristics. The price for such yachts varies around 150-180 million dollars.
Last year, the BBC agency, citing a decision of the Rosneft board of directors, reported that Igor Sechin’s salary with bonuses could be approximately $12 million a year. If these estimates are correct, then the head of Rosneft could hardly afford to buy such a yacht.
Theoretically, Igor Sechin could rent a yacht for his wife. But even with his officially high income, the rent of St. Princess Olga would have hit the family budget hard. Offers for weekly charter of yachts like St. Princess Olga, start at $1 million. And, judging by the photographs, Olga Sechina has spent quite a lot of time on the yacht over the past three years.
The press service of Rosneft did not answer Novaya Gazeta’s questions in essence. “The company does not consider it possible to answer questions regarding the personal life and property of employees beyond the requirements of the law, and cannot afford to create unacceptable precedents. However, your illegal collection and use of unverified and inaccurate information may result in legal liability. “We regret that the content of your requests over the past month falls into the context of an obvious targeted campaign launched against Rosneft and its leader,” the company said in a statement.
The Basmanny Court, following a claim by the head of Rosneft, ordered Novaya Gazeta to refute the information contained in the article about the yacht St. Princess Olga. The publication will appeal this decision, said the newspaper's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov.
President of Rosneft Igor Sechin (Photo: Bloomberg)
The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Monday fully satisfied the claim of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin against Novaya Gazeta, recognizing the information in the article about the yacht St. as untrue. Princess Olga, which became the reason for the lawsuit, reports RIA Novosti. According to the court decision, the publication must publish a refutation in the printed version of the newspaper and on its website.
Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov told RBC that the publication will appeal the decision of the Basmanny Court. According to him, the decision was “unexpected” for the editors.
“This is a bold, comprehensive decision, but we will appeal it. I would never risk writing seditious lines in Novaya Gazeta that Igor Sechin is not an influential politician, which were cited as an argument for Rosneft. I would refrain and think hard and advise others,” Muratov said.
During the court hearing, representatives of Igor Sechin stated that the information published by Novaya Gazeta “does not represent any public significance,” and the reason for publication was “idle interest,” Interfax reports. Sechin’s lawyer Elena Zabralova also stated that the defendants “did not provide reliable evidence of the widespread information that Sechin is associated with one of the most luxurious yachts in the world, Princess Olga, registered in the Cayman Islands, that Igor Sechin is hiding information about his property, and his expenses exceed the official income and income of his family.”
In turn, the representative of the defendants stated that the information that became the basis for the lawsuit was presented in the article in the form of assumptions, questions and conclusions, and not statements. He also noted that Sechin is “an influential politician, a high-ranking official in the past, the head of the largest oil and gas company, a large stake in which belongs to the state.” “Such a person should be more tolerant of the press representatives’ interest in him,” noted a representative of Novaya Gazeta.
Igor Sechin and journalist Roman Anin in mid-August. The top manager’s complaints were caused by Anin’s article published in Novaya Gazeta under the title “The Secret of “Princess Olga.” How is the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin connected with one of the most luxurious yachts in the world? The material stated that the wife of the head of Rosneft, Olga Sechina, was vacationing on the yacht St. Princess Olga worth $100 million. The journalist referred to data from an Instagram account, which, according to him, belongs to Sechina.
The press service of Rosneft commissioned the article. In his lawsuit, Sechin demanded that the information in the article be recognized as untrue and discrediting his honor and dignity. Initially, the press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Yuno Tsareva, said that Sechin also demanded that the newspaper’s circulation be destroyed. Later, the deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Sergei Sokolov, said that there was no requirement to destroy the circulation in the lawsuit. “In the lawsuit, the applicant demands that the material be removed from the site and a refutation published,” Sokolov said.
Lawsuit against Novaya Gazeta and Sechin’s wife Olga. She demanded that this material be removed from the newspaper’s website and the entire circulation of the August 1 issue in which the article was published destroyed. However, the Basmanny Court of Moscow in early September accepted her claim for consideration.
In mid-September, the court, following a lawsuit by the head of Rosneft, ordered Vedomosti to destroy all available copies of the July 20 issue with the article “Sechin is building a nest in Barvikha” and remove the material from the site. The material alleged that the head of Rosneft bought a plot of land near the clinical sanatorium of the Presidential Administration of Barvikha and was building a house there. The company's press service also stated that, according to its assumption, the article was ordered, and Sechin was suing. The court's decision has not yet entered into force. The newspaper's editor-in-chief Tatyana Lysova said that the publication would appeal against it.
In turn, Rosneft filed a lawsuit against RBC over the article “Sechin asked the government to protect Rosneft from BP.” The material was published in April on the website and in the RBC newspaper, information from it was also announced on air on the RBC TV channel. The defendants in the oil company's lawsuit were the founder of the RBC newspaper - BusinessPress LLC, the authors of the article Maxim Tovkaylo, Timofey Dzyadko and Lyudmila Podobedova, the RBC TV channel and presenter Konstantin Bochkarev.
Initially, Rosneft only demanded a refutation of the information from the article. At the end of September, the company made a new claim in court, demanding to collect 3.124 billion rubles from the defendants jointly and severally. “as compensation for reputational damage.”
According to the newspaper, in 2013, the shipbuilding company Oceanco from the Netherlands launched a luxury yacht almost the size of a football field - 85.6 m.
The ship's hull is made of steel, and the above-deck structures are made of aluminum. The exterior of the yacht was designed by Russian designer Igor Lobanov, and Italian designer Alberto Pinto worked on the interiors.
At the stern of the yacht there is a swimming pool, which, if necessary, turns into a helipad, and on the upper deck there is a jacuzzi. Inside the ship there is a SPA room and an elevator.
After launching, the yacht received the code name Y708. But after it was handed over to the owner, the name was changed to St. Princess.
As the publication writes, all this time the name of the owner of St. Princess Olga was kept strictly secret. However, Novaya Gazeta discovered photographs from the yacht on social networks published by the wife of one of the most influential people in Russia, Igor Sechin.
The details in these photos are very similar to those in St. Princess Olga. Moreover, the media claims, the places in the photo coincide with the yacht’s route.
“Judging by photographs on social networks, Sechina spends most of her time abroad. Her Instagram account contains many photographs from private jets, but even more from a yacht off the coast of the fashionable resorts of Sardinia and Corsica.
In total, the publication managed to find 6 “unconditional matches in the time of publication and geotags of photographs from the social networks of Igor Sechin’s wife with the yacht’s route.”
“And these coincidences did not occur in one year, but continuously over the past three years. Moreover, we took into account only those cases when everything coincided - both time and place,” the publication stated.
In addition, Novaya Gazeta interviewed several experts in the world of luxury yachts, who explained that the exact price of St. No one knows Princess Olga except the manufacturer and the customer. The fact is that prices for megayachts depend on interior details and many other factors.
However, all experts agreed that St. Princess Olga is worth at least $100 million.
On the websites of companies that sell and rent luxury yachts, there are offers for similar vessels of the same class, the same year of manufacture and similar characteristics. The price for such yachts varies around $150–180 million.
The press service of Rosneft responded to questions from Novaya Gazeta as follows:
“The company does not consider it possible to answer questions regarding the personal life and property of employees beyond the requirements of the law, and cannot afford to create unacceptable precedents.However, your illegal collection and use of unverified and inaccurate information may result in legal liability. We regret that the content of your requests over the past month falls into the context of an obvious custom campaign launched against Rosneft and its leader.”
Let us remind you that in July, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, purchased a plot of land near the Barvikha sanatorium on Rublyovka and is building a new house on it.
According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the area of the site is 3 hectares, and the cost is expected to be $60 million.
MOSCOW, October 10 – RIA Novosti. The Basmanny Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, against Novaya Gazeta and ordered the editors to refute the article that he allegedly owns the yacht “Saint Princess Olga,” a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.
Novaya Gazeta is appealing the court's decision in Sechin's lawsuit over an article about a yachtEarlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow upheld Igor Sechin’s claim against Novaya Gazeta and ordered the editors to refute the article that he allegedly owns the yacht “Saint Princess Olga”.“The claims must be satisfied,” judge Galina Grabovskaya announced the decision. According to the court's decision, the editors must publish a refutation on the website and in the printed version of the newspaper.
Sechin's lawyers asked that the information that he is allegedly associated with one of the most luxurious yachts in the world, that he allegedly hides information about foreign property and that his expenses allegedly exceed the official income of his and members of his family.
Representatives of the newspaper insisted that this publication was a journalistic investigation on a socially significant topic, and the plaintiff’s position in society required him to be more tolerant of criticism in the media. The conclusion that the plaintiff’s wife spends a lot of time on a yacht similar to the yacht “Saint Princess Olga” was made by the author based on photographs from social networks, geotags and a program that tracks the routes of yachts. At the same time, the wife allegedly posted photos from the yacht in Instagram.
“The article does not state that the yacht belongs to Sechin. The fact that the plaintiff’s wife was vacationing on the yacht does not indicate that it is his property. The author of the article expresses doubts that the yacht is the plaintiff’s property,” explained the newspaper’s lawyer Yaroslav Kozheurov .
Sechin's representative Elena Zabralova said that the article, despite the streamlined wording, used the technique of a “hidden statement.” “The author uses special techniques to present information, the words ‘possibly’ and ‘presumably,’ but, in fact, this is a form of statement,” she said.
“Immediately after the publication of the article, odious publications began to appear in other media and blogs, where the information was presented as a fact. We want to show how negatively this information was perceived and interpreted,” added Sechin’s lawyer.
This article by Novaya Gazeta was also disputed by Olga Sechina, but her claim was not accepted due to shortcomings in its drafting. Earlier, the Ostankino court in Moscow upheld the claim of the head of Rosneft against the Vedomosti newspaper and ordered the removal of an article about his house on Rublyovka from the site, as well as the destruction of the remaining circulation at the editorial disposal.
In early August, it became known that the head of Rosneft decided to file a lawsuit against Novaya Gazeta, the Dozhd TV channel and other media outlets involved in the dissemination of materials that, according to Rosneft, contained false information. The corporation stated that “the campaign launched in the media against Rosneft and its management is obviously ordered.”