Peskov, after the question of sanctions, recalled where Putin keeps money Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Peskov

US threats to freeze the assets of high-ranking Russian officials are not painful for them, but politically destructive, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, TASS reports.

Asked about calls in the United States to freeze "Putin's assets," Peskov confirmed that the president still uses the Rossiya bank account, where his money is kept, to receive salaries.

Peskov recalled that Russian law already prohibits officials from having foreign assets, so US sanctions are meaningless. “U.S. congressmen and senators who do not quite know this topic talk about freezing assets of representatives of the Russian leadership, bank accounts, real estate, and so on, but this, apparently, is due to the fact that they do not have sufficient expert knowledge ... The point is the fact that according to our law it has long been prohibited for representatives of senior leadership and officials, ”he explained.

Bank Rossiya, whose main shareholder is businessman Yuri Kovalchuk, came under sanctions in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea. Then Vladimir Putin promised to open an account in this bank. In 2019, Peskov confirmed that Putin ordered that his salary and military pension be transferred to the Rossiya bank card.