Arrested ex-Yukos employee who slandered Pichugin and Khodorkovsky is suspected of organizing the murders

Olga Mirimskaya, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporate Finance Bank, who was arrested by the Basmanny District Court for two months on December 17 on charges of bribery on an especially large scale, launched an international operation to kidnap a child from a surrogate mother, during which she ordered the murder of her former lover, the surrogate mother herself. her husband and lawyer. This became known from the testimony of witnesses in the Mirimskaya case, informs “New Newspaper”. While other states were initiating criminal cases against the banker, the Russian Investigative Committee was in no hurry to do this – Mirimskaya is a witness to the accusation in the Yukos case, she gave the evidence necessary for the Russian authorities against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Alexei Pichugin.

According to the newspaper, referring to the testimony of witnesses at his disposal, the dollar millionaire Olga Mirimskaya, after her divorce from ex-Yukos shareholder Alexei Golubovich, had a close relationship with the top manager of the Zolotaya Korona company Nikolai Smirnov. Shortly before parting with Smirnov, Mirimskaya told him that they would soon have a child from a surrogate mother. Despite this, the gap took place, however, Smirnov expressed a desire to participate in the upbringing of the child.

According to Novaya Gazeta, two weeks before the birth, in May 2015, the surrogate mother fled from the apartment rented for her and sent the money paid for carrying the child back to Mirimskaya. Apparently, the woman decided to leave the child and raise him with her husband, to which she had a legal right. She will later assign the newborn to herself and her husband. Later, 38-year-old fertility specialist Alexei Chikalov, who was leading the pregnancy, mysteriously died in his office from an overdose of unknown substances a week before his testimony in court in the kidnapping case initiated by Mirimskaya.

Nikolay Smirnov continued to financially help the surrogate mother. The publication has at its disposal the correspondence of the representatives of Mirimskaya and Smirnov, who suggested that he sign documents on surrogate motherhood retroactively, this would help to legalize the procedure and take the child away from the parents. However, he refused and sent the child with his parents at his own expense to Cyprus.

Three months after leaving, the investigation department for the Odintsovo district of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Moscow Region opened a criminal case on the “sale and purchase of a child”, the victim of which was Mirimskaya. The accused are Smirnov and a surrogate mother. Later, the spouse of a surrogate mother, a new partner of Smirnov and a secretary who bought tickets to Cyprus for the family will be added to the “organized criminal gang”. Investigator Yuri Nosov, who was in charge of this case, and his wife will have two cars that the driver of Mirimskaya could have bought – this is confirmed by photographs from the banker’s smartphones, as well as extracts on two operations on the withdrawal of 2,000,000 rubles (coincides with the cost of the Mitsubishi private investigator Yuri Nosov) 1,250,000 rubles (the same as the cost of his wife’s Honda).

The investigator will accuse Smirnov in absentia of “buying” his own daughter from a surrogate mother and will put him on the international wanted list. The secretary who bought tickets to Cyprus will go under house arrest for 28 months, Smirnov himself will be arrested and sent to a pre-trial detention center for 23 months. Novaya Gazeta has at its disposal the correspondence between Mirimskaya and probably Nosov, who will report that “the man went on vacation.” The investigator will re-qualify the case for actions committed by an “organized criminal group.”

After that, on state TV channels in various talk shows, the case will be presented as the disclosure of a gang of kidnappers. Journalist Oleg Lurie will start blaming the surrogate mother very actively. The publication has at its disposal screenshots of the correspondence of a person with that name and Olga Mirimskaya – he promises her maximum publicity. In other screenshots of the correspondence with her assistant, Mirimskaya speaks of the need to pay Lurie $ 15,000, and then $ 17,000.

Separately, the kidnapping case was investigated by Interpol, which soon came to the conclusion that this was an ordinary family dispute, and not the kidnapper case investigated by investigator Nosov. The exclusion from the base of those wanted by Interpol allowed the surrogate mother with the child to leave Cyprus, but at the moment of crossing the border between the Greek and Turkish parts of the island, the surrogate mother with the child was detained.

As it turns out later from the testimony of witnesses, Turkish officials received $ 220,000 from Mirimskaya through representatives. The child will be taken from the mother and sent to Mirimskaya to Moscow, and the surrogate mother herself will be sent to a Turkish detention center (the charges will be dropped in two weeks). One of the participants in the events would later testify that the secretary of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Yana Lantratova asked to assist in the weaning of the child, who also referred to her acquaintance with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his interest in helping “grief-stricken mother” Olga Mirimskaya. Also, Lantratova in the program on “Russia 24” will say that it was Kadyrov’s people who ensured the safety of the child when he returned to Moscow.

The same source told the investigation that in his presence Mirimskaya asked a certain Chechen, Usman Asukhanov, if he could “fill up” Smirnov and his father and receive from Mirimskaya a share in their company “Zolotaya Korona”, which she would get after their death, because that she was recognized as the mother of Nikolai Smirnov’s child. Asukhanov answered in the affirmative.

Even before that, Mirimskaya also tried to take the child from a surrogate mother in Cyprus. She contacted the Deputy Chief of the Special Forces and Special Operations of the Cyprus Police, who was asked to assist in the weaning of the child. She repeatedly offered him bribes, and after refusing, she said that she would hire people who would simply steal the child.

At the end of 2015, the arrest warrant for the surrogate mother was still issued by the Cypriot authorities, but the woman was able to escape. Then, according to the testimony of the witness, Mirimskaya turned to the local crime boss Andreas Rodoteu. For € 1.3 million, he agreed to track down, kidnap and torture the lawyer of the surrogate mother, Petras Valko, in order to find out the whereabouts of the fugitive and the child. After the witness convinced Rodoteu to participate in this, Mirimskaya turned to another crime boss – Giorgos Shurupos. Shurupos is now in prison for one murder; Rodoteu was killed in the spring of 2017.

The witness stated that he turned to the Russian authorities with materials about Mirimskaya. An arrest warrant was issued in Cyprus. Now she is on the so-called “stop list” and will be arrested if she arrives on the island. And the island’s prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case against the Russian banker on incitement to commit a crime – the kidnapping of a minor. Despite all the circumstances, the Investigative Committee of Russia did not react in any way.

The Investigative Committee reacted only after Mirimskaya decided to sue Golubovich’s ex-husband’s property, which she considered her after the divorce. To do this, she tried to bribe the judge of the Presnensky Court of Moscow with a bribe of $ 550,000. The intermediary took the money, but it seems that they did not reach the court. The audio recording of the “debriefing” with an intermediary became a key detail in the case against Mirimskaya, Novaya Gazeta writes.

In May 2017, a criminal case was opened against the banker for attempted bribe-giving to the chairman of the Presnensky Court of Moscow. And again, no restrictions on her movement were imposed on her even after it turned out that Mirimskaya had tapped her opponents with the help of forged decisions of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow.

According to the newspaper, Mirimskaya told the investigation that if the investigation against her develops, she will inevitably side with the ex-Yukos shareholders and tell the truth about their persecution. Only after the threats of the banker was she detained and later arrested for two months. Investigator Nosov was also placed under arrest.