Lap of Luxury: German Firms Spruced Up Yanukovych's Villa

[unhappycamper]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-959222.html



Among the companies that benefited from lucrative contracts to furnish the luxurious villa of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was a Bavarian firm. Although the commissions from the ex leader were in the double digit millions, the firm has since gone bust.

Lap of Luxury: German Firms Spruced Up Yanukovych's Villa
March 17, 2014 – 04:59 PM

Shortly after he fled Kiev, reporters descended on the lavish mansion of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, calling the villa everything from a show of "crazy luxury" to a "grotesque monument" to his vanity. It turns out that some of the more opulent detail work at the Mezhzhirya estate was carried out by German companies, SPIEGEL has learned.

Documents secured at the property by journalists include numerous invoices from German companies. Among the details found in the documents is that a Bavarian firm called Butzbach supplied the door used for a helicopter hanger located on the property. An interior design firm called Brunold Innenausbau und Design apparently provided the "installations in the master and madame's bedroom to on the third floor" to the tune of €4.5 million ($6.25 million).

Another document lists the fittings in the pool room, including "half columns" and a window sill with marble insets.

Despite the generous commission, the firm Brunold has since gone bust. According to the company's bankruptcy administrator, the value of Brunold's total work at the villa was in the double-digit millions. The documents can be viewed on the YanukovychLeaks website, which was created with the help of Berlin-based programmers Friedrich Lindenberg and Stefan Wehrmeyer.


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You can take a virtual tour thru Yanukovych's Villa: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/360-degree-panorama-of-luxury-villa-of-viktor-yanukovych-a-959205.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Must be nice

Wonder how large his family is . . . Easily 6000 square feet if not more.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. that virtual tour is quite clever...and jaw dropping.

I can't believe his digs were such a surprise to folks...