High-Tech Medical Equipment and "Putin's palace"

According to a Reuters investigation a luxurious estate on the Black Sea known as "Putin's Palace," was partly funded by taxpayer money from a hospitals modernisation project. The investigation describes how two associates of Putin made profits by buying high-tech medical equipment through a British company and selling it in Russia at much higher prices.

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