INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The wife and son of Alexander Zakharov, the creator of Russia's ZALA Lancet combat drone, are the owners of an upscale apartment in central
himself and his family members have not been blacklisted.According to iStories, the property owned by Zakharov's wife, Svetlana Zakharova,
and their younger son Lavrenty was purchased in 2018, with the transaction potentially amounting to 1.5 million British pounds ($1.9 million
at the current exchange rate).The 100-square-meter apartment in Westminster, about one kilometer away from Big Ben and Buckingham Palace,
boasts three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen-dining room, and a balcony.Lavrenty, 24, has been living abroad for at least eight years,
according to his LinkedIn profile
He was educated in the U.K., earning a bachelor's degree from University College London, followed by a master's degree in conflict studies
from the London School of Economics.He has held positions in United Nations agencies in New York and Rome since 2021, and has been working
at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva since May of this year.Lavrenty "is a good student and has had a
good start in his career, but neither suggests that he could afford a flat in London," iStories wrote.Alexander Zakharov has been
He owns a controlling stake in the CST company, which is part of the Kalashnikov Concern
has purchased 5.3 billion rubles ($57.8 million) worth of drones from CST from 2022-2023, iStories said.Russian state television regularly
airs stories showcasing the Lancet drones being used to strike Ukrainian targets.This is not the first example of relatives of an arms
Anti-Corruption Foundation found that the family of Boris Obnosov, the CEO of Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC (KTRV), owns luxury real
estate in the Czech Republic worth more than 7 million euros.Rostislav Zorikov, Obnosov's 37-year-old son-in-law, owns a historic four-story
building in the center of Prague
In addition, he and his wife own a 140-square-meter penthouse located nearby
Zorikov also has a collection of luxury cars worth 77 million rubles ($840,000).At last week's NATO summit in Lithuania, Czech President
Petr Pavel responded to a journalist's question as to why the country hasn't sanctioned Obnosov by saying that there was a "legal
problem.""So far, there is no legislation that would allow the Czech Republic to either confiscate [his property] or expel him from the
