interest and investment gains but there was a claim back in 2007 from the russian political analyst stanislav skee that putin effectively controlled holdings in the energy companies gun for gazprom and so. they were worth about $40000000000.00 at the time for their part those companies deny putin holds any stock in them fast for another 5 years or 2012 and he told the bureau of investigative journalists that putin was now at $70000000000.00 and then in testimony before the us senate panel and to the russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election bill browder the chief executive of hermitage capital management said hey believe putin was worth $200000000000.00 brother was once the biggest investor in russia and his lawyer magnitsky died in a russian jail whilst investigating corruption and i'm very pleased to say he's with us this week on counting the cost from london bill nice to have you with us thanks for your time great to be here 200000000000 without giving away the state secrets how did you get to that number. well i mean that calculation and a very broad brush way which was to say i