 He had an opulent dacha at Bakovka west of Moscow, "where he lived like a millionaire"; he also had a series of expensive cars, including the makes of Porsche, Bentley and Mercedes-Benz, some of them vintage.From 1965, he and his wife ran a lucrative 'hard-currency' business publishing the directory "Information Moscow" for foreigners in Moscow.Until 1982, Louis' KGB overseer was KGB Major General Vyacheslav Kevorkov, who in 2010 published a book in Russia about Victor Louis' life that he claimed was based on the latter's oral accounts to him shortly before death.