Alexei Valentinovich was suspected of extorting 200,000 dollars from a Moscow builder.
The apartment of the fugitive State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov in Patriarch Ponds was auctioned off for debts amounting to 240 million rubles (2.5 million euros). The politician, who was once known for his colorful escapades and extravagant antics, is now hiding from everyone. How did the star of Zhirinovsky's former ally fade away?
This family residence was purchased in 2004 with a mortgage for 88 million rubles and registered in the name of the fugitive politician's wife, Marina Lillevyali. Alexei Mitrofanov and his mother, Zoya, acted as guarantors in the transaction.
The family managed to pay off 7 million rubles on the mortgage, after which the borrowers could not make timely payments, leading to delinquencies. The situation was exacerbated by a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee against Alexei Mitrofanov in 2014.
The deputy was suspected of extorting 200,000 dollars from Moscow builder Vyacheslav Zharov. According to the investigation, two of Mitrofanov's Duma assistants offered to help resolve his business issues with co-founders in court. The businessman was told that they had significant administrative resources, but that "something needed to be slipped."
However, instead of paying the "benefactors," the businessman went to the police, and a criminal case was opened based on his statement, leading to convictions for the assistants. At the same time, their boss — Alexei Mitrofanov — managed to flee Russia and disappear in Europe. This happened at the moment when the State Duma was stripping him of immunity on formal grounds — for systematic absences and loss of contact with voters.
Already abroad, Mitrofanov tried to negotiate with the investigators: he promised to return to Russia if he was guaranteed freedom, but the negotiations ended in failure — the scandalous deputy completely vanished from the sight of Russian investigators.
One of the most colorful deputies of the State Duma in the 90s and 2000s, Alexei Mitrofanov is still hiding from Russian justice abroad. The last time the former LDPR member was seen was in Zagreb, Croatia, back in 2016. However, he is likely still there, as his only daughter, Zoya, named after her grandmother, grew up and lives in Croatia.
In Russia, Mitrofanov is primarily remembered as a great lover of women and parties, as well as for various outrageous antics. The former deputy promoted the idea of polygamy, attempted to legalize prostitution, urged his fellow deputies through Roscosmos to send American singer Madonna into orbit, financed Ukrainian comedy projects "Maski-Show" and "Gentlemen's Show," and even sheltered the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Abdullah Öcalan, from Turkish authorities at his dacha in the Moscow region.
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