Ex-head of BCF Bank Mirimskaya appealed her 19-year sentence

Olga Mirimskaya, ex-chairman of the board of directors of the Bank of Corporate Finance (BCF) deprived of its license and founder of the Russian Product company, has appealed against her 19-year sentence. The relevant information appeared on December 13 on the website of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction.

The complaint was received by the court on December 10.

The same day Izmailovsky court of Moscow sentenced her to 19 years of general regime colony. Also, the former head of BCF was ordered to pay a fine of 400 million rubles. She did not admit her guilt.

Mirimskaya's detention became known in December 2021. She was charged under part 5 of article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Giving a bribe"). At the hearing on October 14, 2024, the prosecutor petitioned for Mirimskaya to be sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment with a fine of 500 million rubles.

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According to the investigation, Mirimskaya gave two bribes in the form of two foreign cars to former Moscow Region investigator Yuri Nosov as part of the case in which she was a victim, and tried to give three more to judges. The total amount of bribes is about $1.8 million (approximately 179 million rubles). Nosov was sentenced to 11 years in a general regime colony for taking bribes, stripped of his rank and ordered to pay a fine of more than 55 million rubles.

Olga Mirimskaya bought a stake in JSC Russian Product, one of the largest grocery producers in Russia, in 2000. Another of Mirimskaya's assets was the Bank of Corporate Finance, which had its license revoked in November 2024 due to numerous violations. In 2015, Forbes included Mirimskaya in its list of Russia's richest women, where she ranked 22nd with a fortune of $100 million.