Putin says palace Navalny alleges he owns is not his or his family's

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the purported palace that he allegedly owns in Gelendzhik according to a certain "investigation" doesn’t belong to him or his close relatives.

"I haven’t seen this film simply due to lack of free time to look into such information, but I looked through selected video clips that my aides brought me," he said at an online meeting with university students.

"Nothing of what is listed there as my property belongs or has ever belonged to me or my close relatives. Never!" TASS cited him as saying.

Navalny’s team released a video last week in which he levelled his allegations about the palace, which has since been viewed more than 86 million times on YouTube.