Against the backdrop of current events, the news sounds like it’s from a parallel universe, so let’s refresh our memory. Billionaire from the Forbes list Kirill Shamalov left his wife in English and along with him the surrogate mother carrying their common (de jure) child disappeared. Kirill filed an application to declare the marriage invalid (so he wanted to avoid paying 60 million dollars under the marriage contract), but miserably lost all the courts. As a result, the couple is still husband and wife, but they live separately. Despite all the efforts of Zhanna (she appealed to all authorities, including the main defender of childhood from the Investigative Committee, the chairman of the department, Alexander Bastrykin), nothing is still known about the fate of the child.
As a source reported to the Cheka-OGPU, on February 19, a representative of Kirill Shamalov contacted the Department of Internal Affairs in the Arbat district, who wrote a statement and attached an explanation on behalf of the chief, a disk with a recording of an interview with Zhanna Shamalova on the YouTube channel of Ksenia Sobchak and a linguistic examination of the torn from the context of the wife’s remarks. The words of the wife, according to the billionaire, “are not true, are offensive, slanderous information, discredit his honor, dignity and undermine his business reputation.” This is despite the fact that Zhanna reacted very dignified to Ksenia Sobchak’s vile feints and did not allow herself to offend her husband in any way. And the day before yesterday, on March 16, a criminal case was opened under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Slander”. Is it worth talking about how rarely aroused this article is, especially when addressed by ordinary citizens?
A criminal case may be an elementary barrier to Zhanna’s entry into Russia – we previously reported about Shamalova’s “warm welcome” at the airport, where she was subjected to a thorough search and document check in both directions without explanation. Also, the presence of a criminal record will be a corresponding “touch to the portrait” in possible future proceedings between spouses on other issues.
According to the source, Zhanna Shamalova is not yet aware of her husband’s latest demarche. She just exhaled after unexpected problems with the European authorities, which almost happened again through the fault of Kirill Shamalov. She was almost deprived of her villa in Monaco and her accounts were almost frozen, as the wife of a person involved in the pre-Ukrainian sanctions lists, but everything worked out.
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