FSB and Investigative Committee officers will conduct an investigation into the circumstances of bribery by lawyers…

Employees of the FSB and the Investigative Committee will conduct an investigation into the circumstances of the giving of bribes by the lawyers of the co-owner of the Golden Crown payment system Nikolai Smirnov in order to initiate criminal cases against his former cohabitant, the head of the BKF bank Olga Mirimskaya and to gain access to the materials of her criminal case.

According to the information available to law enforcement officers, in order to fabricate the first case against a banker about her attempt to bribe judges of the Presnensky Court of the capital, law enforcement officers received 50 million rubles. The case was opened at the request of Smirnov’s representative, lawyer Alexander Remov, in 2017 in relation to the Mirimskaya Investigation Department for the Southern Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Moscow, although it should have been investigated in the Investigative Directorate for the Central Administrative District, which has jurisdiction over the Presnensky Court of Moscow. In addition, the transfer of money in the amount of 550 thousand dollars, which Mirimskaya allegedly paid to the judges so that the property with her ex-husband Alexei Golubovich would be divided in her favor, also took place on the territory of the Central Administrative District. The criminal case was initiated with the direct participation of the former head of the Investigative Directorate for the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, Boris Lavrenev, and his friend, the former deputy head of the “M” Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Oleg Menzhinsky, whose corruption connection the Cheka-OGPU mentioned earlier.

Later Mirimskaya was added to the violation of the secrecy of telephone conversations. The businesswoman herself testified back in 2018 that she gave 550 thousand dollars to lawyers Ivan Kibalchich and his future wife Ekaterina Kibalchich (then Seryakova, who had previously worked for Mirimskaya at Russian Product), because they undertook to represent her interests in Presnensky court. They guaranteed a decision in her favor, but they lost the case and, in order not to return the fee, they came up with a story about giving money as a bribe to the chairman of the Presnensky court. At the same time, Kibalchich tried to convince Mirimskaya that in order for the Moscow City Court to take her side and change the decision, another 500 thousand dollars are needed.

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In April 2015, Mirimskaya contacted the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District and demanded that the Kibalchichis be charged with fraud. However, her statement was sent to the Yakimanka police station, where they issued a decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, citing the fact that civil legal relations had taken place. Kibalchich, in order not to be jailed for giving a bribe or fraud, testified against Mirimskaya, saying that he took the money, but then returned it to the banker. At the same time, the fact of return is not confirmed by anything other than his words. The investigation was satisfied with such testimony, they received testimony against Mirimskaya, and Kibalchichi received an indulgence and the opportunity not to return the stolen 550 thousand dollars.
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