Putin rumored god-daughter Ksenia Sobchak flees Russia - Business Insider

• A Russian media prima with beardown ties to Putin fled the country, per aggregate reports. 
• Ksenia Sobchak, rumored to beryllium Putin's god-daughter, is successful Lithuania, an authoritative determination said.
• Sobchak near aft her location was searched successful transportation with a high-profile extortion case. 

A salient writer rumored to beryllium the god-daughter of President Vladimir Putin has fled Russia, according to aggregate reports.

Ksenia Sobchak near Russia and entered Lithuania utilizing an Israeli passport precocious connected Tuesday, state-controlled media outlet TASS reported, citing unnamed law-enforcement officials. 

On Wednesday, constabulary searched her Moscow location arsenic portion of an extortion lawsuit targeting 1 of her colleagues, TASS said, again citing an anonymous law-enforcement source. The root said determination was a warrant for her arrest. 

Sobchak sought to confuse constabulary by buying tickets to Dubai and Turkey, earlier fleeing to Lithuania via Belarus by onshore precocious connected Tuesday, per the TASS report. 

Video circulating connected societal media, which Insider has been incapable to authenticate, appears to amusement her walking crossed the Belarus-Lithuanian borderline accompanied by 2 men. 

Sobchak, who runs the Ostorozhno.Media group, fled aft her commercialized manager Kirill Sukhanov was detained and his location searched.

Follwing Sukhanov's arrest, she posted to Telegram saying the lawsuit is "nonsense" and "another unit connected journalism successful the country."

The erstwhile exertion of Russian Tatler magazine, Arian Romanovsky, was arrested successful the aforesaid case, TASS reported. 

Russian authorities accused the brace of extortion from the caput of defence conglomerate Rostec, TASS reported.

Sobchak, 40, is simply a salient TV anchor and socialite who became celebrated via world TV shows. She aboriginal distanced herself from her representation arsenic "Russia's Paris Hilton" to make a bid for Russia's presidency .

She is the girl of Anatoly Sobchak, was the archetypal post-Soviet politician of St Petersburg successful the aboriginal 1990s and had Vladimir Putin arsenic a deputy.

Putin has since described Sobchak arsenic a mentor, and Ksenia has agelong been rumored to beryllium Putin's god-daughter. 

Though she has astatine times taken a wide stance and has criticized Putin's government, her statesmanlike tally was formed by immoderate critics as a feint staged to springiness the content of competitory elections successful Russia. 

Putin has clamped down hard connected Russian media outlets successful the past years, an effort that has, arsenic of the penetration of Ukraine, each but silenced autarkic journalism successful the country.  

Lithuanian counterintelligence main Darius Jauniškis said Sobchak has the close to stay successful Lithuania for 90 days, TASS reported.