RT | The smear campaign against Putin comes a week after his press secretary
Dmitry Peskov said that the Western media intended to launch a new
slander attack against the Russian president, while he also expressed
regret that reporters’ professionalism is often “sacrificed to political demands.”
“Another piece of spin, which is claimed to be sensational and
objective, will happen in the nearest days. We have received some
excessively-rich requests that, however, in their form were more like
questions at an interrogation,” Peskov said.
He explained
that the letters contained some personal questions about Putin, as well
as questions about the Russian president’s family, his childhood friends
and some businessmen.
“They are repeating themselves. ‘Is it
true that the amount of your personal accumulated wealth is about US$40
billion?’ ‘Is it true that you possess gigantic residences, mega-yachts
and other assets?’
On Sunday, Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung
(SZ) released the biggest leak in journalistic history, posting 11.5
million documents from a Panama law firm online and providing “rare insights into a world that can only exist in the shadows.”
SZ said it received the law firm’s documents a year ago from an anonymous source who “wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else in return.”
The German paper obtained further documents in an investigation that followed, involving “400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations in over 80 countries.”
