In early January, a businesswoman Olga Mirimskaya She headed the list prepared by FORBES magazine of the most famous entrepreneurs of Russia who were arrested in 2021. It is known from the media that widely covered this story that the banker is suspected of bribing the investigator who participated in the investigation of the criminal case of the abduction of her daughter. But in reality, not one, but three criminal cases were initiated against Olga Mirimskaya.
Harsh reality
It all started with Olga Mirimskaya’s struggle for her daughter, born from a surrogate mother. She was taken out of Russia without Olga’s consent by the former civil husband of a millionaire businesswoman Nikolai Smirnov. Who subsequently left the newborn in Cyprus and went to the USA. Then the baby was returned to Russia and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation came to the conclusion that the mother of the child is Olga Mirimskaya. And then there was a surprisingly cleverly closed criminal case against Nikolai Smirnov, suspected of buying and selling a newborn and exporting it abroad. That’s where the three criminal cases appeared, one of which Olga ended up in jail.
Both Mirimskaya’s lawyers and independent lawyers note an amazing fact. The criminal case in connection with the possible abduction of a child by Nikolai Smirnov has been closed. And, according to Olga Mirimskaya’s lawyers, there is virtually no evidence of her guilt in three criminal cases against Mirimskaya.
The first thing. About the bribe
This criminal case was initiated at the request of the representative of Smirnova, lawyer Alexandra Ramova. None of them had anything to do with the case, and even the territorial jurisdiction was violated. It was about the fact that the business lady allegedly paid the judges for the division of property in her favor with her first husband Alexey Golubovich. The sum of 550 thousand dollars was called, but the investigation did not establish either the bribe-giver, the bribe-taker, or the intermediary. That did not prevent, immediately after the initiation of a criminal case against unidentified persons, according to Olga Mirimskaya’s lawyers, from tapping phones for six months, and then conducting a search in the houses of Mirimskaya and her relatives. He passed withoutresidents’ participation and without their lawyers. Mirimskaya’s lawyers emphasize that this fact may already confirm the arguments about the ordered nature of the criminal case.Mirimskaya, who was interrogated as an accused, said that the amount of 550 thousand dollars really appeared. Only it was handed over to lawyers To Ivan Kibalchich and his future wife Ekaterina Seryakova (later Kibalcic), for representing her interests in the Presnensky court during the division of property. Such a fee was justified, since the property was divided by more than one hundred million dollars, and litigation continues to this day. But the lawyers lost the case and, in order not to return the fee, probably came up with a story about giving a bribe. At the same time, according to Olga Mirimskaya, Kibalchich tried to convince her that another 500 thousand dollars were needed to “solve the issue” in the Moscow City Court. These words were not confirmed. In April 2015, Mirimskaya contacted the police and demanded to involveKibalchichi for possible fraud. However, as a result, a decision was made to refuse to initiate criminal proceedings. He was motivated by the fact that civil law relations took place. Kibalcic, as can be assumed, in order not to go to jail for bribery or fraud in a criminal case, testified against Mirimskaya, saying that he took the money, but then returned it to the banker. At the same time, the fact of the return has not been confirmed by anything other than his words. But the investigation was satisfied with such testimony. It received testimony against Mirimskaya.
The second case. Mysterious flash drive
On September 20, 2017, during the above-mentioned search in the house of Olga Mirimskaya, a flash drive was suddenly found with the billing of the phones of lawyers Nikolai Smirnov, Alexander Ramov and Vadim Baturia. And at the same time, at her assistant’s house, they found (don’t laugh) a nominal certificate of honor and symbols of the Ukrainian extremist organization “Right Sector” (banned in the territory of the Russian Federation). At the same time, one of the websites belonging to this organization was “suddenly” posted “thanks to Mirimskaya for funding”.
It is not easy to imagine that Olga Mirimskaya, who finally got her daughter back after two years of searching, keeps the symbols and finances an extremist organization banned in the territory of the Russian Federation. It is even harder to believe that she allegedly acquires billing (telephone connection points) of her ex-husband’s lawyers somewhere and also keeps them at home in the most prominent place.
Such “finds” are surprising. But as a result, a case was initiated against Mirimskaya under articles 138 (“Violation of the secrecy of telephone conversations”) and 327 (“Forgery of documents”) The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Lawyers note that both elements of the crime under these articles are of minor gravity, with a statute of limitations of two years. But five years have passed since the initiation of the case against Olga Mirimskaya, and they are not going to stop them. It turns out that for her, the investigation may have some special rules of its own, different from the generally accepted legislative ones?
The third thing. About the bribe to the investigator
On December 15, 2021, a new criminal case against Olga Mirimskaya was isolated from the materials of the previous case and initiated, as a result of which she ended up in jail. According to the investigation, she personally handed over to the investigator Nosov Yu.M.. a bribe in the form of two cars with a total cost of 3 250 000 rubles. But at the same time, the investigation can not decide for what exactly this bribe was given?
According to Olga Mirimskaya’s lawyers, the prosecution does not contain information about which investigative actions, procedural decisions or provision of information were allegedly transferred to the cars. This is not in any of the documents submitted to the court that chose the measure of restraint.
But why are documents refuting the version with a bribe not provided to the court? For example, these are the interrogation protocols of at least five witnesses documenting the legal origin of the funds for which the investigator’s family purchased cars. Why are the documents testifying to the position of the leadership of the Russian IC not submitted to the court, includingincluding A.I. Bastrykin, on the legality of the initiation of criminal proceedings against Smirnov and his accomplices in the criminal case of the abduction and sale of a child?
The defense of Olga Mirimskaya suggests that the described chain of three criminal cases is revenge for the return of her daughter and an attempt to defame court decisions that confirmed her motherhood.