The funding of a charity run by President Putin’s estranged eldest daughter has been dismissed and rejected by a European Union Judge as the basis for sanctioning two Russian Oligarchs, I can reveal. The charity, the Alfa-Endo program which helps sick children in Russia, is run by Maria Vorontsova, the eldest daughter of Putin who has never publicly acknowledged her.  It is financed by Alfa Bank whose majority shareholders are Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Peter Av

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