Saturday, 11 April 2015

Elena Perminova: the oligarch’s other half

thetimes.co.uk - Stefanie Marsh

When Elena Perminova was arrested at the age of 16 and facing a prison sentence in Siberia, it was the oligarch Alexander Lebedev who rescued her. She describes what happened next

When she was 16, in front of a giant billboard that stood smack-bang in the centre of the Siberian capital, Novosibirsk, a Swat team of Russian police arrested Elena Perminova for dealing drugs, in an operation that could have been construed by passers-by as stage-managed for optimum visual impact.

On the giant billboard, spray-tanned, crouched panther-like and dressed in a metallic minidress, was Perminova herself.

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