Last year, we reported that Vladimir Putin's former wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, enriched herself during Russia's war against Ukraine, which in turn affected the indebtedness of ordinary Russians.

"I have always disliked those who, with their infected noses and erotic fantasies, break into other people's private affairs," Vladimir Putin once said Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE.

The wife of a former Russian minister and ally of President Vladimir Putin charged in the UK with dodging sanctions tearfully took to the stand in London on Wednesday, with her husband looking on.