Check out the £25 million yacht Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich gave to Vladimir Putin according to documentary

A documentary about Vladimir Putin claimed that the Russian president accepted a £25 million, 57-metre mega yacht from billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich.

This comes as a Panorama investigation accused Putin of amassing a secret personal fortune alongside claims of corruption, nepotism and embezzlement of state funds.

Dmitry Skarga, a former head of Sovcomflot, Russia's state-controlled shipping company, claimed that Abramovich gifted the Olympia super yacht through one of his employees.

He said: "It's a fact that Mr Abramovich, through his employee, transferred a yacht to Mr Putin."
“I was on board of this yacht at the end of March 2002, in Amsterdam. And there was a representative of Mr Abramovich….He said that Roman is the owner of this yacht.”

Mr Skarga says the Olympia was then given to the Russian president via an offshore company.
He oversaw the management of the yacht for Putin and prepared reports on the boat’s running costs.

In the BBC One program, Putin's Secret Riches, Mr Skarga said these costs were paid for using using state funds.

He said: “This yacht was maintained and paid for running costs from the state budget.”
Mr Skarga says the yacht was kept secret because it belonged personally to Putin, rather than the state.

But Putin has dismissed claims of his huge personal wealth as "rubbish".
Panorama asked Mr Abramovich to comment on a number of issues relating to his relationship with President Putin, including Mr Skarga’s claim that he had given him a yacht.

Mr Abramovich’s lawyers said they were “unsubstantiated” and little more than a “rehash of speculation and rumours”.