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Friday, 03/11/2016 12:28:46 AM

Friday, March 11, 2016 12:28:46 AM

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Founder of "Russia Today" Mikhail Lesin, 57, Putin's propaganda channel, died last year in a $240 a night hotel room in Washington D.C., which was slum-like conditions compared with the way Lesin typically lived. Know as 'the Bulldozer' he was key to media falling into line with Putin but had recently found new love and become father with Siberian model, 29. He had previously been Putin's Press Advisor from 2004 to 2009.

After his death was announced, Russia Today said without explanation that Lesin 'had been suffering from a prolonged unidentified illness'.

The Washington D.C. Coroner has now released the fact that Mikhail Lesin died of blunt force trauma to the head.


His presence and death in Washington shocked many Russians. Most elite-level Russians with links to the Putin regime are currently giving the US, and other parts of the West, a wide berth amid fears of arrest.

The one-time close Putin apparatchik is said to have owned property worth $28 million in Los Angeles, a rumored focus of the supposed FBI investigation, and two adult children who live in America.

Lesin's company the Dastel Corporation bought a 13,000 sq ft Beverly Hills home in August 2011 for $13.8 million and a 10,600 square foot property in Brentwood for $9 million in 2012, it was reported.

'For over a year he was living under FBI scrutiny and a total check on his assets,' according to Sergey Parkhomenko.


Former Russian vice premier Alfred Kokh openly asked this week whether Lesin could have been murdered. Questioning why Putin's former media manipulator was in the US capital, Kokh asked in an online posting:

'What's so interesting about Washington? I've been there quite a few times. 'And I'd answer - nothing. At all. It's a boring city without a touch of spice.

Putin with Mikhail Lesin


Kokh spoke amid fears in Moscow that he was ready to trade his inside knowledge of the Putin court for an end to any American investigation into the propriety of his wealth.

Kokh added 'That's where FBI and the Russian Embassy are located. And also the body of a renowned Putin confidant found in a city hotel room, who the FBI was investigating on suspicion of money laundering.

'And Russian Embassy tries to create the impression that it was death by heart attack.

'Maybe they were afraid that Lesin was telling the FBI something in return for suspending the investigation?

'And that's why they had tea? As has happened a few times before.'

'You don't normally go to Washington for medical treatment or for business but to communicate with officials.'


Lesin was also rumored to have played a key role in the creation of a secret tape compromising former Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov.

Skuratov was seen in bed with two women, claimed to be prostitutes, forcing the resignation of a man who was probing alleged corruption in then president Boris Yeltsin's circle.

When he quit Gazprom Media in December, a move seen as a shock, he cited 'family reasons' although there were unconfirmed claims he had fallen out with other influential figures close to Putin.

After his death, President Putin spoke of Lesin's "enormous contribution" to Russian media.



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