Jorrit Joost Faassen[1] (born 24 February 1980[2]) is a Dutch businessman. He was allegedly the husband ofMaria Vorontsova and the son-in-law of Russian presidentVladimir Putin.
Faassen was born inLeiderdorp in theNetherlands,[2] the elder of two sons born to Jozef Faassen and Felicitas van de Stadt. His father was a naval officer inWillemstad,Curaçao until 1986, a colonel in the 1990s and then a head of department in theRoyal Netherlands Navy.[3] Faassen is a nephew of the Dutch painter Casper Faassen.[4]
On 15 April 2006, he moved to Moscow where he had been a director atStroytransgaz but left that post to take a top posting in 2007 atGazprombank,[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]
On 14 November 2010, along theRublevskoye Highway (Russian:Рублёвское шоссе) nearMoscow, 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 atButyrka 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 toNew Zealand.[7][a]
Faassen and Vorontsova have a son, born in August 2012 in the Netherlands.[7][9] In 2013, they were living in apenthouse atop the highest residential building inVoorschoten;[5][4] they lived in theCrimea 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 afterMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 wasshot 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][b]
^Allegedly, Putin’s daughters do not have driver's licenses according to traffic police.[7] The audit and consulting group MEF-Audit of which Faassen was an employee owned the cars in which they were driven around Moscow and the power of attorney for the vehicles was issued to Evgeniy Burdeiny (Russian:Евгений Бурдейный) who is an employee of theRussian Presidential Security Service (SBP) of theFSO.[7]
^Allegedly, in 2022, Maria Faassen was married to Yevgeny Nagorny and had taken the name Maria Nagornaya.[9]
^abcКанев, Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) (31 January 2016)."ПЕРВАЯ ДОЧЬ СТРАНЫ" [FIRST DAUGHTER OF THE COUNTRY].«The New Times» (in Russian). Archived fromthe original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Михайлова, Елена (Mikhailova, Elena) (14 November 2010)."Менеджера "Газпрома" избила охрана банкира" [The manager of "Gazprom" was beaten by the banker's security] (in Russian).L!FE (lifenews.ru). Archived fromthe original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Официальный сайт АКБ "Trado-Bank" (ЗАО)" [www.trado-bank.com Official site of JSCB "Trado-Bank" (CJSC)].АКБ „Традо-Банк“ (ЗАО) (Trado Bank) website (www.trado-bank.com) (in Russian). 2009. Archived fromthe original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved26 January 2021.
^Сологуб, Никита (Sologub, Nikita) (24 June 2015)."Долгая дорога к этапу" [Long road to the stage].Echo Moscoy (in Russian). Archived fromthe original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved10 December 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
