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Jorrit Joost Faassen [1] (born 24 February 1980 [2] ) is a Dutch businessman. He was allegedly the husband of Maria Vorontsova and the son-in-law of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Faassen was born in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands, [2] 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. [3] Faassen is a nephew of the Dutch painter Casper Faassen. [4]
He studied architecture at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 2004. [5] [6]
In 2005, Faassen met Maria Vorontsova at a costume party at De twee heeren ("Two gentlemen") in Maastricht. [7]
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, [4] [6] [8] where he no longer works. [1] He was the deputy chairman of MEF Audit, a Russian consulting group, until mid 2015 when MEF Audit removed his name from their website. [1] [6]
Faassen married Maria Vorontsova, the eldest daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, [1] 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. [4] [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. [7] [lower-alpha 1]
Faassen and Vorontsova have a son, born in August 2012 in the Netherlands. [7] [9] In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten; [5] [4] they lived in the Crimea district (Dutch : 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. [1]
In 2022, it was reported that Faassen and Vorontsova are no longer married. [9] [19] [lower-alpha 2]
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