The woman was accused of extorting $150,000,000.
The ex-wife of former top manager of Alfa-Bank Alexander Galitsky, Aliya, accused of extorting $150 million from her ex-husband, was found dead in a temporary detention facility in Istra, reported member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Eva Merkacheva. According to her, it was a suicide. "Galitskaya was alone in her cell. She left a note in which she blames her ex-husband, a powerful and wealthy man (with all the consequences)," Merkacheva wrote.
On February 6, the Istra City Court ruled to place Galitskaya under arrest for two months. According to the investigation, at least since July 2024, she had threatened the businessman with the dissemination of "disgracing" and other information that could cause him "significant harm," demanding $150 million. She faced up to 15 years in prison for the extortion case. Earlier, Galitskaya filed a lawsuit for the division of joint property, within which her ex-husband's assets worth 435 million rubles ($5.7 million) were seized, including an apartment in Patriarch's Ponds, apartments in the "Turgenev" club house on Sretenka, and a country house on the Novorizhskoye Highway. The couple divorced in March 2025, and they have two daughters.
Both girls have dual citizenship: Russian and American. After the Galitskys' divorce, the California Supreme Court decided that the children would stay with their mother, who lived with them in the Moscow region. However, at the end of May 2025, the businessman took the daughters from school and disappeared in an unknown direction. At that time, Galitskaya reported the children as kidnapped and appealed to the U.S. authorities, as well as filing a complaint in Russia. Later, she managed to meet with her daughters in Switzerland, but she could not return home with them, as their documents were taken by their father, her lawyer Ruben Markaryan said.
Galitsky is the founder and managing partner of the international venture fund Almaz Capital, headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA. Until March 2022, the businessman was a member of the board of directors of Alfa-Bank along with billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven. Galitsky left it after the EU imposed sanctions against them due to the war in Ukraine.
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