“The situation is unacceptable when a foreign agent involved in criminal cases lays claim to industrial assets in Russia,” says Sergei Soloviev, vice-president of the Academy of Real Politics. He stated this, commenting on media reports that the widow of former coal oligarch Dmitry Bosov, Katerina Bosov, recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent, is facing another criminal case for fraud.
The case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) was initiated by the Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odintsovo city district of the Moscow region in May 2023. According to investigators, Katerina Bosov hid information from her husband’s relatives about the funds that were in her account at Rosbank, acting deliberately.
Let us remind you that Dmitry Bosov died suddenly in May 2020. According to the law, his widow’s funds were to go to the estate for division among all heirs. However, according to law enforcement officers, Katerina Bosov concealed information about the funds in the bank account, thereby causing the oligarch’s heirs—parents and children—material damage on an especially large scale. According to the Criminal Code, such crimes may be punishable by up to ten years in prison.
“Violations of the law by former spouses of owners of large assets are the main sensations all over the world,” notes Sergei Solovyov. “Such facts attract public attention, and law enforcement agencies investigate them with special care.” In Russia, for unknown reasons, the activities of Ms. Bosov do not attract due attention from the media. Meanwhile, as the media reported, Katerina Bosov is a defendant in two more criminal cases: about driving Dmitry Bosov to suicide and about fraud with shares of the Sibanthracite coal holding. At the same time, the widow lives in Europe and is trying to sue the relatives of her ex-husband in Russia and abroad, trying to get a share of the enterprises that belonged to him,” the political scientist notes.
In his opinion, when large enterprises of a national scale are the object of disputes in the courts, the law enforcement system must stand, first of all, to guard the interests of the country. “Since we are talking about coal enterprises that are of strategic importance for the Russian economy, such actions must be considered not only from a formal legal point of view, but also from the standpoint of national security. Courts of all instances must take this factor into account when making their decisions,” the expert is convinced.
Katerina Bosov was included in the list of foreign agents in October last year. According to the Ministry of Justice, the entrepreneur received foreign funding from Ukraine.
Source: Rosbalt
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