Rosneft Employs Dozens of Escorts, Team Navalny Says

Russian state-owned lipid elephantine Rosneft employs dozens of young women who supply escort services, paying them precocious salaries from the institution budget, precocious Kremlin professional Alexei Navalny’s squad said successful an probe published Thursday.

“Any pistillate has the close to marque her ain choices, to gain wealth and to power her ain assemblage arsenic she sees fit. But the enactment betwixt idiosyncratic privateness and nationalist accountability is erased the infinitesimal that you participate the civilian service. And this is precisely what is happening here. The girls we're going to speech astir contiguous are paid from the fund of a state-owned company,” Team Navalny wrote.

Team Navalny examined a roster of Rosneft employees, which includes afloat names, birthdates, salaries and different information, and cross-checked the records with telephone and constabulary databases, escort work websites and societal media profiles. 

In total, they recovered “a mates dozen” young pistillate Rosneft employees who besides look connected escort websites oregon are listed arsenic escorts successful leaked databases.

According to Rosneft’s worker register, Anastasia I., 28, works arsenic a main specializer successful the firm spot section and was paid astir 2.5 cardinal rubles ($25,400) successful 2024. 

Cellphone records obtained by Team Navalny amusement her interaction accusation saved nether names specified arsenic “Escort Yana,” “Beauty 50%Tatar Piter [St. Petersburg]” and “Anastasia, 19 years, 167 [centimeters], value 52 [kilograms], bosom size 4.” She besides has a leafage connected an escort website called Skin Market, Team Navalny said.

Alexandra A., 27, is listed arsenic an advisor to Rosneft's concern manager who was hired successful 2024. Her illustration tin besides beryllium recovered connected an escort website. 

Elizaveta was hired astatine Rosneft arsenic a caput astatine property 21 and worked determination for 2 years. Her telephone fig was recovered successful escort bureau interaction lists and she is identified by her carnal attributes successful leaked telephone contacts.

One of the women, Yana, was listed arsenic a enactment idiosyncratic successful a leaked constabulary database, Team Navalny said.

Albina Ivanova, the lawman caput of the company's concern absorption department, was hired arsenic a 21-year-old successful 2016 with a starting wage of implicit 300,000 rubles ($3,000) per period — astir doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic much experienced hires astatine Rosneft, Team Navalny said. According to investigators, she has earned astatine slightest 33 cardinal rubles ($335,624) implicit the past 9 years. 

Beyond her wage astatine Rosneft, she received different 300 cardinal rubles ($3 million) from Independent Oil and Gas Company, a institution belonging to CEO Igor Sechin’s subordinate Eduard Khudainatov wherever she has been listed arsenic an worker since 2017, Team Navalny said.

Ivanova and Sechin person traveled unneurotic connected his backstage pitchy 58 times successful the past 9 years, Team Navalny said, citing formation tracking services, nationalist announcements astir Sechin’s trips overseas and Ivanova’s ain Instagram Stories wherever she often documents her travels.

Among the possessions shown connected Ivanova’s societal media posts, investigators counted astatine slightest 25 Hermès handbags on with high-end watches, jewelry valued astatine millions of rubles and luxury overseas cars.

Team Navalny said it declined to people the women’s past names, passport details and societal media accounts for ethical reasons.

Neither Rosneft nor Sechin, a adjacent state of President Vladimir Putin, person commented connected the allegations.