Owner of Sunset campus, who intends to build massive towers, is the son of Putin’s former energy minister – Palo Alto Daily Post

Owner of Sunset campus, who intends to build massive towers, is the son of Putin’s former energy minister – Palo Alto Daily Post

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The son of Russia’s former Energy Minister under President Vladimir Putin controls the LLC that owns the former Sunset Magazine property in Menlo Park where massive towers have been proposed. Willow Project LLC is controlled by Vitaly Yusufov, the son of Igor Yusufov, a prominent Russian politician with close ties to Putin and worth about $1.1 billion, according to Forbes. Attempts to reach the younger Yus…