Employees of the department “M” of the FSB check the statement of the defense of the chairman of the board of directors of the BKF bank Olga Mirimskayawho reported the deceit by a wanted native of Ukraine, posing as a high-ranking employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office, her lawyer Alexander Chernov told RIA Novosti.
According to him, about a month ago, Alexander Malinovsky, a native of Ukraine, introducing himself as the nephew of former Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Malinovsky, arranged a meeting for Mirimskaya’s lawyers near the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office in central Moscow, allegedly to help their client in the case. He introduced himself as the head of the Main Department for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Environmental Sphere, in the past he allegedly held the position of Deputy Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Anti-Corruption Legislation.
According to the lawyer, Malinovsky claimed that his uncle was engaged in the Yukos case, in which Mirimskaya testified. The false prosecutor said that it had brought “huge benefit” and could still help the country, and with this in mind, he is ready to help ensure that documents are not lost from ordinary employees, but get to the “right people.”
To confirm his high position, Malinovsky provided a copy of the order on his appointment, but the defense did not find such a department. After his passport details were obtained, it turned out that since the 1990s this person had been repeatedly put on the wanted list for fraud, moreover, in the same regions as another swindler Sergey Sokolov. The latter offered his “help” in Mirimskaya’s case, promising to help her get out of the pre-trial detention center and get the case dismissed for 33.5 million rubles. In March, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow arrested him in a fraud case.
Now Malinovsky does not get in touch, his whereabouts are unknown. RIA Novosti does not yet have a commentary from the investigation.
Earlier, Mirimskaya was charged with giving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 5 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the amount of 3.3 million rubles to investigator Yury Nosov near Moscow, in December 2021 she was arrested. Nosov was also taken into custody. Both categorically plead not guilty.
According to Kommersant, the case of giving a bribe to an investigator is already the second case against Mirimskaya, but it has been separated from the first. It is connected with an alleged attempt to bribe the leadership of the Presnensky Court of Moscow in 2017 for 550 thousand dollars through an intermediary Ivan Kibalchich. The court arrested him on July 20, 2022 on charges of fraud against Mirimskaya herself.
As Chernov said, on June 6, 2022, a third case was opened against Mirimskaya on attempted bribery (part 3, article 30, part 5, article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to investigators, in 2016 she allegedly handed over $500,000 to the former deputy chief bailiff of the Moscow Region, Yevgeny Pershin, for a judge of the Presnensky Court of Moscow. This amount was also intended to make a decision in her favor on the division of property with her ex-husband, an ex-top manager of Yukos Alexey Golubovich. However, Pershin returned the money.
Kommersant.Ru, 07/26/2022, “The banker doubled the bribe”: As follows from the materials of the new case, at the beginning of October 2014, Ms. Mirimskaya decided to give a bribe to the judges of the Presnensky Court, who were not established by the investigation. There, by that time, a process had been going on for the division of property between Mrs. Mirimskaya and her ex-husband, lawyer Alexei Golubovich, for two years.
In order to win the trial, the chairman of the board of directors of the BKF, according to investigators, through a friend found an intermediary for giving a bribe – the former deputy head of the Moscow Region Department of the Federal Bailiffs Service, and at that time unemployed Evgeny Pershin. Based on the materials of the case, Mrs. Mirimskaya described her litigation to her interlocutor and explained that she needed to resolve the issue in her favor and for this she was ready to pay the judges $ 500,000. Mr. Pershin agreed to the proposal, but asked to give him the documents of the civil case for study.
Further, according to the case, both began to discuss the details of the transfer of the bribe via the Viber messenger, and after two more meetings on October 20, 2014, the banker’s assistant sent an intermediary and a draft court decision with a prescribed motivational and resolutive part to the mediator’s e-mail. A day later, in the same office of the BKF, it follows from the case, the intermediary received the entire amount of the bribe in a paper bag, however, after thinking for another day, he abandoned the criminal plan, returning the money. Already on October 23, 2014, Mrs. Mirimskaya, according to the investigation, resumed negotiations and again transferred money to the intermediary for a bribe, as well as another $ 130,000 as a reward. According to the investigation, in both cases, when receiving money, Mr. Pershin wrote receipts, from which it followed that they were a loan that should be repaid in two months. But at the end of December 2014, the intermediary, according to the investigation, decided to finally abandon the criminal intent and returned both amounts. When he learned about the initiation of a criminal case against Mrs. Mirimskaya, he decided to contact law enforcement agencies. — Inset K.ru
“Arguments and evidence that this case was illegally initiated by the defense were presented in a complaint that was sent to the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin,” Chernov added.
He clarified that the defense demands to cancel the decision to initiate proceedings against Mirimskaya and will seek to bring Pershin to criminal liability for falsifying evidence.
Mirimskaya herself denies acquaintance with Pershin and does not admit her guilt.
Mirimskaya previously held the position of general director of the Russian Product company, a large producer of products (oatmeal Hercules, kissels, compotes, soup mixes, and so on). In 2015, Forbes ranked her as the 22nd richest woman in Russia with a net worth of $100 million.