Jorrit Faassen Explained

Birth Name:Jorrit Joost Faassen
Birth Date:24 February 1980
Birth Place:Leiderdorp, Netherlands
Children:1

Jorrit Joost Faassen (born 24 February 1980) is a Dutch businessman. He was allegedly the husband of Maria Vorontsova and the son-in-law of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Biography

Faassen was born in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands,[1] the elder of two sons born to Jozef Faassen and Felicitas van de Stadt. His father was a naval officer in Willemstad, Curaçao until 1986, a colonel in the 1990s and then a head of department in the Royal Netherlands Navy.[2] Faassen is a nephew of the Dutch painter Casper Faassen.[3]

He studied architecture at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2004.[4] [5]

In 2005, Faassen met Maria Vorontsova at a costume party at De twee heeren ("Two gentlemen") in Maastricht.[6]

On 15 April 2006, he moved to Moscow where he had been a director at Stroytransgaz but left that post to take a top posting in 2007 at Gazprombank,[3] [5] [7] where he no longer works. He was the deputy chairman of MEF Audit, a Russian consulting group, until mid 2015 when MEF Audit removed his name from their website.[5]

Faassen married Maria Vorontsova, the eldest daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin,[8] in summer 2008 in Wassenaar in the Netherlands.[9]

On 14 November 2010, along the Rublevskoye Highway (Russian: Рублёвское шоссе) near Moscow, Faassen was beaten by four bodyguards of the Russian banker Matvey Urin, the co-owner of Trado-Bank (Russian: АКБ «Традо-Банка» (ЗАО)), previously the head of Breeze Bank (Russian: «Бриз-Банк») and associated with four other Moscow banks, all six of which subsequently went bankrupt.[3] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Half an hour after this occurred, Urin was detained and later incarcerated at Butyrka and subsequently lost his wealth and vast holdings.[15] Urin received an 8.5 year sentence and was released in September 2018.[16] After the beating, Faassen allegedly stated that he never wanted to set foot in such a gangster country again and both he and Masha took a vacation to New Zealand.[6]

Faassen and Vorontsova have a son, born in August 2012 in the Netherlands.[6] [9] In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten;[4] [3] they lived in the Crimea district (Dutch; Flemish: De Krim) of Voorschoten with neighbors fearing for their safety following what had happened with Matvey Urin.[17] In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukraine.[18] In 2015, they were reported to be living in Moscow.[8]

In 2022, it was reported that Faassen and Vorontsova are no longer married.[9] [19]

Notes and References

  1. Sterkenburg. Nikki. 28 September 2011. Nederlander mag 'pa' tegen Vladimir Poetin zeggen. Quote. nl. Dutchman can say 'pa' to Vladimir Putin. 27 February 2022.
  2. Web site: Wie is Jorrit Faassen, de Nederlandse schoonzoon van Vladimir Poetin?. Daalder. Jan. Ubbens. Charlie. Bracht. Marthe-Geke. 12 March 2022. Follow the Money. nl. https://archive.today/20220312081818/https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nederlandse-schoonzoon-poetin-jorrit-faassen. 12 March 2022. live. registration.
  3. News: Familie van Poetin woont in Voorschoten . Putin's family lives in Voorschoten . nl . . . 8 April 2013 . 11 December 2020 . 8 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130408131814/http://www.leidschdagblad.nl/regionaal/metropool/article21698683.ece/Familie-van-Poetin-woont-in-Voorschoten?lref=vptop . live .
  4. News: Spokesman Denies Putin Wanted to Visit Daughter in Dutch Village . The Moscow Times . 9 April 2013 . 26 January 2021 . 12 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130412152050/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/spokesman-denies-putin-wanted-to-visit-daughter-in-dutch-village/478338.html.
  5. News: Канев . Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) . ПЕРВАЯ ДОЧЬ СТРАНЫ . FIRST DAUGHTER OF THE COUNTRY . ru . . 31 January 2016 . 26 January 2021 . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121043601/https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/107214.
  6. News: Канев . Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) . На чем ездят дочери Путина, теща Пескова и сын конюха Кадырова . What do Putin's daughters, Peskov's mother-in-law and Kadyrov's groom's son drive? . ru . МБХ Медиа (mbk.sobchakprotivvseh.ru) . 3 September 2018 . 18 November 2023 . 7 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180907055519/https://mbk.sobchakprotivvseh.ru/rassled/na-chem-ezdyat-docher/. Alternate archive.
  7. News: Harding . Luke . Sergei Roldugin, the cellist who holds the key to tracing Putin's hidden fortune: The Russian president's best friend portrays himself as a modest musician, but leaked documents reveal his role in a secret money-go-round . . 3 April 2016 . 13 October 2023 . 13 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231013162742/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/sergei-roldugin-the-cellist-who-holds-the-key-to-tracing-putins-hidden-fortune.
  8. Web site: Grey. Stephen. Kuzmin. Andrey. Piper. Elizabeth. 10 November 2015. Putin's daughter, a young billionaire and the president's friends. Reuters. https://archive.today/20190618185049/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/russia-capitalism-daughters/. 18 June 2019. live. 27 February 2022.
  9. News: Soshnikov. Andrei. Reiter. Svetlana. 8 April 2022. The Secretive Life Of The Dutch Man Who Was Believed To Be Vladimir Putin's Son-In-Law: An Investigation. live. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. https://archive.today/20220409044235/https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-daughters-son-in-law-secretive-life-sanctions-faassen/31793489.html. 9 April 2022. 9 April 2022.
  10. News: Михайлова . Елена (Mikhailova, Elena) . Менеджера "Газпрома" избила охрана банкира . The manager of "Gazprom" was beaten by the banker's security . ru . L!FE (lifenews.ru) . 14 November 2010 . 26 January 2021 . 2 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130502145906/http://www.lifenews.ru/news/43406.
  11. News: Onduidelijkheid rond aanslag op Nederlandse zakenman in Moskou . Uncertainty about attack on Dutch businessman in Moscow . nl . . 16 November 2010 . 26 January 2021 . 18 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101118083601/http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/bulletin/onduidelijkheid-rond-aanslag-op-nederlandse-zakenman-moskou . live .
  12. News: Dutch Executive at Gazprom Attacked in Car . The Moscow Times . 15 November 2010 . 26 January 2021.
  13. Web site: Официальный сайт АКБ "Trado-Bank" (ЗАО) . www.trado-bank.com Official site of JSCB "Trado-Bank" (CJSC) . ru . АКБ „Традо-Банк“ (ЗАО) (Trado Bank) website (www.trado-bank.com) . 2009 . 26 January 2021 . 19 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101119062504/http://www.trado-bank.com/.
  14. News: Banker Jailed for Road Rage Beating . The Moscow Times . 9 November 2011 . 26 January 2021 . 10 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111110154607/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/banker-jailed-for-road-rage-beating/447402.html.
  15. News: Сологуб . Никита (Sologub, Nikita) . Долгая дорога к этапу . Long road to the stage . ru . . 24 June 2015 . 10 December 2020 . 25 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150625122529/https://echo.msk.ru/blog/mediazona/1572760-echo/.
  16. News: Команда «Проекта» (Project team) . ШОССЕ В НИКУДА: Путеводитель по Рублевке, главной дороге России . HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE: Guide to Rublyovka, the main road in Russia . ru . Proekt (proekt.media) . 6 February 2020 . 31 March 2022.
  17. News: Два мужа Марии Воронцовой (дочери Путина) избежали санкций. Но одному из них война все равно испортила жизнь Расследование "Медузы" и "Настоящего времени" . Two husbands of Maria Vorontsova (Putin's daughter) escaped sanctions. But one of them was still ruined by the war Investigation of Meduza and Current Time . ru . . 7 April 2022 . 13 April 2022 . 13 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220413051259/https://meduza.io/feature/2022/04/08/dva-muzha-marii-vorontsovoy-docheri-putina-izbezhali-sanktsiy-no-odnomu-iz-nih-voyna-vse-ravno-isportila-zhizn.
  18. News: Charter. David. 24 July 2014. Dutch call for Putin daughter's expulsion. The Times. live. https://archive.today/20210906014123/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dutch-call-for-putin-daughters-expulsion-txhdft9fd02. 6 September 2021. limited. 8 March 2022.
  19. Web site: Пленники ближнего круга Как любитель пива из Нидерландов женился на дочери Путина – а теперь не может вернуться на родину, несмотря на войну. Soshnikov. Andrei. Reiter. Svetlana. 8 April 2022. Current Time TV. ru. https://archive.today/20220408073937/https://www.currenttime.tv/a/plenniki-blizhnego-kruga/31792259.html. 8 April 2022. live. 9 April 2022.

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