If Russia had taxed these companies instead of giving 50% of the profits to Putin there army may have had a chance in Ukraine. Putin is more interested in money than human life.
But officially he will always be poor as all his money is on other people's names and in offshore constructions. If these people try to steal his money they have a few options:
- they will fall by accident out of a window of a skyscraper
- they will be caught for drug trafficking, fraude or any other crime set up by the FSB and go to jail for lifetime
- they will be poisoned
- they will just disappear.
The four children he has with the old gymnast Kabaeve have not his name and even have Swiss nationality.