A BOMBSHELL picture appears to show a pole-dancing boudoir inside a £1billion Black Sea palace – thought to be owned by Vladimir Putin.
Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s team claim they have found thousands of snaps of the secretive complex confirming a “striptease” room – complete with a stage and pole.
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Putin has previously denied owning the mansion after Navalny accused him of spending state cash on the vast complex near the town of Gelendzhik in southern Russia.
Previously, the pole-dancing room had been pictured in a series of computer images based on leaked plans of the property.
But Navalny’s team have now claimed they have an actual photo of the room inside the palace when it was still under construction.
A commentary about the new pictures says: “The striptease hall, hookah, call it what you will, really exists.
“And it looks much worse than we could imagine.”
The stage is “littered with pillows” and has a pulsating light above and behind where a dancer would perform.
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The commentary continues: “We don’t even know how to describe it. A portal? A silhouette of a temple dome?”
Other damning images appear show to Putin’s bedroom, a second bedroom and his office, as well as a swimming pool.
The high-security property also reportedly boasts an underground ice-hockey rink, a private theatre, a vineyard, and territory the size of “39 Monacos”.
And to give it an official seal, a double-head eagle symbol of Russia can be found throughout the sprawling palace.
Putin judo pal and life-long friend Arkady Rotenberg claims the multi-million-pound Black Sea mansion is actually his.
He told local media at the time news broke of secret getaway: “This is a stunning place.
“We would like to build an apart-hotel there, this is why it has so many rooms.”
He told the media without going into detail that he had managed to “become a beneficiary” of the well-guarded property.
The high security palace reportedly includes a “16-storey underground complex” compared with the lair of a James Bond villain.
It was also described as “a whole anthill in the rock under the house”.
An engineer-turned-whistleblower who reportedly worked on the construction – named only as Viktor – thought of the palace as a “national treasure” suggesting the underground passageways buried in the rock were more ingenious than Dr No’s bunker.
The palace designs included on the eighth subterranean floor “a balcony – literally a loggia hanging over the sea” built into the cliff, from which the owner can enjoy wine tasting from the palace stocks, he said.
It is, however, far from clear that Putin has ever lived here and a year ago it appeared to be undergoing a reconstruction.
The Kremlin has denied that it is the president’s private home while authorities have etched the £1bn mansion out of Russian maps, according to reports.
Lawyer, anti-corruption campaigner and protest leader Navalny – seen as Putin’s enemy number one – is in jail but is seen in the West as a political prisoner.
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