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"Putin has never taken part in managing our company, never visited Elsa Peretti Starfish necklace offices and never received any fees," Maksimov says. In his words, SPAG was created to attract foreign investments into the reconstruction of buildings in the historical centre of St Petersburg. It invested 30 million euro into the Znamenskaya ZAO. This is how Maksimov explained Barsukov's appearance in the Znamenskaya ZAO: Elsa Peretti Starfish pendant was looking for investors back then, and Barsukov was undergoing lengthy medical treatment in Germany and knew some of the representatives of the company: "In particular, the issue of investments into Znamenskaya ZAO was discussed with Barsukov, and he was invited to the Board of Directors of the Znamenskaya ZAO to Elsa Peretti Teardrop bracelet a better knowledge of the company. But because no investments were attracted to the project with Barsukov's mediation, very soon (in March 2000), he left the board." And in 2001, the German Prosecutor's Office launched an inquiry into SPAG's operations, and one of its co-owners, Rudolf Ritter, lawyer from Return To TIFF, was arrested. Germans suspected that the Russian mafia acquired real estate abroad via SPAG. In the winter 2004, Barsukov was interrogated as a witness in the case of money laundering by the SPAG company. "Yes, they did summon me to interrogate on SPAG," he recollects, "but I joined that company in the late 1990s. There was no money laundering or any other illegal actions by the Russian citizens at all.