Earlier quoted context omitted.
A trillion dollars is roughly two years of the entire Russian national exports, and I don’t think he has the capacity to pocket 10% of the total exports every year for the last twenty. The corruption needed to enable that level of loss would imply other people having the opportunity, and I expect competition between different corrupt officials would limit any one person. Perhaps I’m wrong — I’m not knowledgeable, thi…
Four oligarchs died under suspicious circumstances in the last, what, a week? Who gets their assets? FSB will gather them up. Nobody can be sure of the numbers. Most of us can't count that high in one lifetime.
Naturally, but the other estimates I’ve seen — even recently — put him between 70 and 274 billion. A quarter to a 14th of what you’re suggesting. While anything over about 2 billion is uncountable in a human lifetime, the lower number does not feel entirely unbelievable, in the way a trillion does.