The Presnensky Court of the capital received the materials of the criminal case against the owner of the Corporate Finance Bank (BKF) and the company “Russian Product” Olga Mirimskaya and the former investigator of the head office of the TFR near Moscow Yuri Nosov. Mrs. Mirimskaya is charged with four counts of bribery or attempted crime totaling almost $2 million. Mr. Nosov, who was in charge of the businesswoman’s daughter’s kidnapping case, is charged with illegally obtaining two cars from her. The defendants plead not guilty. The court is scheduled to hold a preliminary hearing on May 10.

The materials of the criminal case against the businesswoman and banker Olga Mirimskaya and the former investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the TFR in the Moscow Region, Yuri Nosov, were received by the Presnensky Court of Moscow, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 10. At it, the parties will discuss various petitions from the defendants’ defense, which, according to Kommersant’s sources, among other things, will insist on returning the case to the prosecutor’s office. If this does not happen, then the state prosecution and lawyers will also discuss the technical details of the future process.

Recall that Olga Mirimskaya, the owner of the BKF Bank and the Russian Product company, is accused of four episodes of giving bribes or trying to transfer them to officials on a large scale (part 5 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Mr. Nosov was charged with taking two bribes from a banker (part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The total amount of illegal rewards, which appears in the case file, is almost $2 million.

All episodes of the investigation refer to the period 2014-2016. As previously reported by Kommersant, the owner of the BKF is accused of two episodes of attempting to bribe judges of the Presnensky Court of the capital. In them, the total amount of alleged bribes exceeds $1 million. According to investigators, in 2014 and 2015, with the help of this money, Ms. Mirimskaya tried to win in a civil case on the division of property with her husband, Alexei Golubovich, ex-director of strategic planning at Yukos. In the district court, the ex-spouses challenged the rights to a mansion near Moscow in the elite village of Nikolina Gora with an area of ​​​​almost 1 thousand square meters. m and two land plots under it, and also shared compensation of almost $ 2 million.

In addition, the banker is accused of giving a bribe in the form of two SUVs to investigator Yuri Nosov, who was in charge of the case of the kidnapping of the daughter of the owner of the BKF (it was closed in 2020 due to the lack of corpus delicti).

Bribes, according to the materials of the case, were transferred for falsifying evidence against the former common-law spouse of the head of the BKF, co-owner of the Zolotaya Korona payment system, Nikolai Smirnov. Investigator Nosov charged the businessman, his secretary and the girl’s surrogate mother with buying and selling a child as part of an organized group (part 3 of article 127.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and also put Mr. Smirnov on the international wanted list. However, Interpol refused to place the businessman’s data in its database. For these actions, Mr. Nosov, according to the TFR, in 2016 received from the banker a new Mitsubishi Outlander and a three-year-old Honda CR-V.

The last episode in the criminal case appeared already at the final stage of the investigation in November 2022. It refers to the events of nine years ago, when, according to investigators, Ms. Mirimskaya tried to organize the transfer of money to the judges of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal. The amount of the bribe amounted to $700 thousand, and in return the banker sought to cancel the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court dated May 12, 2014. In it, the court satisfied the claim of Damino Associates Ltd against one of the firms controlled by Mrs. Mirimskaya. According to the criminal plan of the banker, it follows from the case file, after receiving the money, the judges of the appeal court had to make a new decision, this time in favor of her company.

In September 2014, according to investigators, while at the office of her bank (1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 21), Olga Mirimskaya ordered the head of the legal department of the BKF to find an intermediary to transfer the bribe, promising, if successful, to pay her and the intermediary a commission in the amount of 20% of the bribe. However, the corruption plan failed because the mediator could not agree with the judges and returned the money.

The defendants plead not guilty. Ms. Mirimskaya’s lawyer Alexander Chernov told Kommersant that the defense intends to seek her acquittal.