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Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is a fan of the Courchevel resort, and in winter holidays often there. This year was no exception - he spent the New Year holidays in the French Alps in the company of models, but this time he changed the traditions a little: he did not rest in the Tremplin restaurant, as usual, but in a private salon in the highlands, writes lifenews .

A whole company came to Le Cap Horn restaurant beautiful girls, later Prokhorov himself appeared. The celebration was attended by Leonid Yarmolnik, who left the party, leaving on skis. Prokhorov himself skied down to his chalet worth 100 million euros, and minibuses arrived for the girls.

2012, for example, Prokhorov too - for this, as the New York Post wrote, a chalet worth $ 45 million, designed for 25 people, was rented. The article also stated that favorite dish Prokhorov, which takes 24 hours to prepare, was planned to be cooked for him by the chef Wout Bru.

A vacation in the Alps in early January 2007 made Prokhorov the hero of the world tabloids. The billionaire was detained in France for delivering seven young women from Moscow to a resort. The French police detained Prokhorov on suspicion that he brought prostitutes from the Russian capital, the billionaire himself said that he had brought the girls because he loves the company of smart, beautiful and young companions. The prosecutor claimed that Prokhorov took on all the expenses of these girls, he paid for the hotel, restaurant, entertainment in the evenings, clothes, and this seemed suspicious to the French authorities.

As the billionaire noted then, the police treated him correctly, but the attitude of the authorities towards his guests did not suit him at all. “I wonder why the French treat Russians like that: every man with money for them is a bandit, and a woman is a prostitute,” Prokhorov said in an interview from that period.

He had to spend some time at the police station, where the law enforcement officers even fed Prokhorov and his guests at their own expense, because the billionaire had no money with him.

"I was too visible. For 10 years I went to this resort, because I really like it there: tracks, air, food. And I always arranged holidays for my friends there. I never hid behind closed doors like others curtains down: I hate double standards both in business and in my personal life," the businessman reasons for his detention.

According to him, Prokhorov spent the winter holidays of 2008 not in Courchevel, but with friends on Bahamas where did you work water sports sports. By the way, then Prokhorov was done - friends bought and closed the disco where Prokhorov held his annual Courchevel parties.

As a result, representatives of the French authorities apologized to Prokhorov for the 2007 incident, and even in 2009. The award is given for special services to France - in the case of Prokhorov, such a merit was the activity of the charitable organization he created, the main goal of which is to support the culture of the Russian regions and its integration into the global cultural space. He sponsored a number of events within the framework of the "Year of Russia" in France and the "Year of France" in Russia, in particular, the festival of contemporary Russian art"Unknown Siberia" in Leon and the Krasnoyarsk Book Fair, where France was a special guest.

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In the Prokhorov Chalet, worth over 100 million euros, located in one of the most prestigious places in Courchevel, life is seething every evening. During the day, the oligarch rushes along the local slopes in a whirlwind, after which he prefers a different, but no less active form of recreation. After eight in the evening, minibuses arrive in columns at the billionaire's house, from which, one after another, the beautiful guests of the 48-year-old politician flit out.

It is easy to confuse the living room in a businessman's chalet with an expensive restaurant - elite wines flow like water here, well-trained servants delicately serve the table, and the girls sit at it in skimpy evening dresses.

The owner of the house at this celebration of life looks like a king - he prefers to sit at the head of the table, and the attention of the "concubines" is relentlessly drawn only to him. The businessman occasionally walks around his property, endowing elegant girls with unambiguous signs of attention: the oligarch hugs someone and gently strokes his face with his palm, while others get more intimate touches.

Fortunately for Mikhail, none of the beauties is against it. The guests patiently wait for their turn and look with a contemptuous smile towards their potential rivals, and as a rule there are quite a few of them in the house. Some of the girls, apparently visiting the oligarch not for the first time, dine at sportswear like Prokhorov himself. But there are those who saunter around the house with evening make-up and hairstyles, as well as high heels.

The billionaire's friend Leonid Yarmolnik does not share the politician's hobbies: the actor prefers male company and spends the evening talking with friends.

The party dragged on until late at night - those present began to disperse from the table only at three o'clock. Only those girls who were left without signs of attention from the politician continued the feast until the morning.

Mikhail Prokhorov brought several dozen girls from Russia to his $100 million home in Courchevel and rocked them with Leonid Yarmolnik (photo, video)

In Prokhorov's chalet, worth more than 100 million euros, located in one of the most prestigious places in Courchevel, life was seething every evening. During the day, the oligarch swept like a whirlwind along the local slopes, after which he preferred a different, but no less active form of recreation. After eight in the evening, minibuses arrived in columns at the billionaire's house, from which, one after another, the beautiful guests of the 48-year-old politician flitted out.

It is easy to confuse the living room in a businessman's chalet with an expensive restaurant - elite wines flowed like water here, well-trained servants delicately set the table, and the girls sat at it in skimpy evening dresses.

The owner of the house at this celebration of life looked like a king - he preferred to sit at the head of the table, and the attention of the "concubines" was tirelessly turned only to him. The businessman occasionally walked around his property, endowing elegant girls with unambiguous signs of attention: the oligarch hugged someone and gently stroked his face with his palm, while others got more intimate touches.

Fortunately for Mikhail, none of the beauties were against it. The guests patiently waited for their turn and looked with a contemptuous smile towards their potential rivals, and as a rule there were quite a few of them in the house. Some of the girls, apparently visiting the oligarch not for the first time, dined in sportswear, like Prokhorov himself. But there were those who sauntered around the house with evening make-up and hairstyles, as well as high heels.

The billionaire's friend Leonid Yarmolnik did not share the politician's hobbies: the actor preferred the male company and spends the evening talking with friends.

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Mikhail Prokhorov can rightly be called the most devoted admirer of Courchevel. In early January, the politician and businessman again went to the snowy slopes of the French Alps. As usual, he took with him cheerful company- a string of young girls.

In the favorite restaurant Tremplin, located in the heart of Courchevel, on a slope with a mark of 1850 meters, you will no longer meet Prokhorov - now the oligarch is conquering new heights. A private salon with a huge terrace, located in the highlands, attracts politicians much more than the crowded Croisette street.

As soon as the 48-year-old oligarch appeared on the horizon, all the attention of onlookers around the entrance focused on his tall figure. Everyone knows Prokhorov there: from waiters to the owner of the establishment, restaurateur Eric Tournier, who personally met the Russian guest.

For two and a half hours, the girls danced to the most popular Russian songs. By order of Prokhorov, the hit of the Freestyle group “Oh, what a woman” sounded that evening. Which of the many beauties the composition was addressed to is unknown, it seems that everyone at once - the businessman was dancing in a dense ring of flirtatious fans.

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Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who on Friday interrogating the police Lyon, was detained in France for the delivery of young women from Moscow to the Alpine resort of Courchevel. The French police suspect Prokhorov of having brought girls of easy virtue for his wealthy friends, but the oligarch himself claims that he brought the women because he loves the company of smart, beautiful and young companions, writes The Times.

During the raid on Tuesday, police detained several Russian women in their 20s, but all the girls were soon released without charge. Eight Russians were brought to Courchevel last week and eight this week, said Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richaud, who is leading the case. On Friday, a decision will be made whether to charge Prokhorov with the delivery of prostitutes.

“According to Prokhorov, he likes the company of smart women, he met these women in restaurants and nightclubs in Russia and brought them back, but neither he nor his friends had sexual relations with them. He took all the expenses of these girls: he pays for a hotel, a restaurant, entertainment in the evenings, clothes. The question is whether they should give something in return," the prosecutor said.

"Prokhorov tells us:" To stay young, you must be surrounded by youth and beauty. "According to Richaud, it has been established that these women were not professional girls on call and did not work for an agency supplying services to prostitutes, notes The Times. (Full text of the article on the site InoPressa.ru.)

Prokhorov, 41, CEO of mining giant Norilsk Nickel, is a regular among Russian millionaires traveling to Courchevel for New Year. A large number of young Russian women come to share their holiday with moneybags, which culminated this year on the weekend. These women attracted the attention of the French police. Investigators suspect that many of them received payment for sex in the form of expensive gifts from the chic boutiques of the Alpine resort, writes another British newspaper Daily Telegraph.

The French Office of Territorial Surveillance (analogous to the British MI-5) has been investigating for at least a year the possible connection of the resort with an international network of prostitution. According to the Lyon newspaper Le Progres, an Austrian tour operator firm called V.I.C. is at the center of the investigation. Travel, which "specializes in organizing luxury holidays." According to the publication, together with Prokhorov, citizens of Germany and Austria were also detained in Courchevel. One of the detainees is a representative of an Austrian travel agency that organized a trip to Courchevel for a large retinue of a Russian billionaire.

“Did the services of this firm go beyond providing a flight from Moscow to Geneva, and then a helicopter to a ski resort, as well as reserving luxury hotels and restaurants? That is the problem of this case, where justice will have to draw the line between the rampant revelry of billionaires spending their holidays and criminal behavior," the newspaper writes.

In turn, the French newspaper Le Figaro cites the words of the prosecutor of Lyon, Xavier Richaud, that the young women who were among those detained in Courchevel, at this stage of the investigation, "are not considered as call girls or prostitutes, but as students and models." "The detained girls claim to be models and say they were seduced by the opportunity to spend a fully paid vacation in Courchevel. So far, this is not very similar to the actions of an agency that sends" call girls "at the request of Russian businessmen," prosecutor Richaud quoted the publication as saying. .

The newspaper Le Figaro also writes that the actions of the French police caused a negative reaction among many in Courchevel. She cites the words of an "angry businessman who owns a luxury boutique" to confirm: Courchevel. And if they no longer come back here, but go to Switzerland or Austria, we will find ourselves in a difficult position. In any case, in all countries, these businessmen travel with girls. They also opened the moon for me, "says the owner of the boutique.

Denis Zanon, head of the Courchevel tourism department, speaks in approximately the same spirit, RIA Novosti reports. "The police landing at the resort is not to be liked. Our Russian clients come here for a relaxing holiday, so this is an unfortunate incident, which I hope will not have consequences," Zanon said.

Some Russians living in France have expressed the opinion that the police are naive, automatically considering young women who crowd around rich men as prostitutes. "These are girls who have a good time and have a good time," one Russian living in Paris told The Times.

The court of Lyon refused to consider the complaint of Russian women detained in January 2007 in Courchevel together with Mikhail Prokhorov. The girls demanded that their detention be recognized as illegal and that the damage be compensated. The French authorities insist: police operation in Courchevel passed within the law. Prokhorov himself still cannot achieve the termination of the prostitution case, of which he is the main defendant.

On Wednesday, a Lyon court denied three Russian women who were detained in January 2007 at ski resort Courchevel in the French Alps, in a review of the legality of their arrest.

The girls arrived in Courchevel to spend the New Year holidays there in the company of businessman Mikhail Prokhorov and his friends. But on January 9, 2007, Prokhorov and 25 other persons, among whom were Russian entrepreneurs and seven women accompanying them were detained as part of the investigation in a criminal case “on organized prostitution”. Some suspects were released immediately, while others spent more than two days in the pre-trial detention center. The French authorities never filed any charges against anyone.

Later, three Russian women, certain Anastasia F., Marina G. and Irina S., filed complaints with a French court about “illegal deprivation of liberty”. However, on Wednesday, the Lyon court refused to re-interrogate the Russian women's lawyer to interrogate the police officers who carried out the arrest. At present, the investigation into the girls' complaints has been completed, and the Lyon prosecutor's office intends to close this case. Ssoren Margyulis, a lawyer for the three Russian women who wanted to “defend their honor,” told the French press that the prosecutor’s office said that “the detentions were legal and, therefore, there is no need to look for the one who ordered the detention.”

According to Margyulis, the refusal to re-interrogate "demonstrates an unwillingness to investigate this case properly." However, the lawyer is not going to stop and intends to file an appeal with the Court of Chambery. According to Margyulis, his clients were offended by the actions of the French police. The girls were returned the things seized from them during the arrest: jewelry, furs and money, but they did not compensate for the damage caused for the illegal, in their opinion, arrest.

The fact is that, according to Margyulis, the authorities who allegedly investigated the case of an international prostitution network, in fact, did not ask the detainees a single question during interrogations regarding their belonging to this network. Moreover, according to the defender of Russian women, it is generally strange to suspect girls of prostitution. The lawyer is sure that Prokhorov’s girlfriends are not involved in the service of elite prostitutes, says their “rather high social status”: one has a degree in biology, another in law, and the third studied as a hotel manager a year ago.

The stay of Russian women at the resort consisted only in visiting various recreational activities and nothing more, RIA Novosti cites Margyulis's statements.

The lawsuit of Mikhail Prokhorov, who demanded to close the case, of which he is a defendant, is in the court of Lyon to this day. The businessman also continues to wait for an official apology from representatives of the French police.

No decision has been made on the suit, and Prokhorov retains the status of an assistant witness, which, according to French law, is intermediate between a witness and a suspect. [...]

Grigory Tumanov