The criminal case against the ex-wife of the former top director of Alfa Bank Aliya Galitskaya has been dropped, RBC reported.
Galitskaya’s lawyer, Dmitry Emelyanov, told the agency that the case was closed because there was no evidence of a crime.
According to Emelyanov, the Prosecutor General’s Office agreed with the arguments that in the case “there is no information confirming the presence of signs of blackmail”, and that the whole situation does not go beyond the scope of a civil legal dispute related to the division of property during a divorce.
Aliya Galitskaya was placed under arrest in early February on charges of extorting $150 million from her ex-husband. The next day, she committed suicide in a temporary detention center. In her suicide note, she blamed her ex-husband for the suicide.
Strinsky City Court judge Fyodor Grigoriev, who authorized the arrest of Aliya Galitskaya, resigned a few days later. According to TASS and RIA Novosti, this was the result of the intervention of the President of the Supreme Court, Igor Krasnov. Grigoriev later claimed that the decision to arrest came from above.