Step-by-step: the FSSP arrested Alexander Galitsky's property for 8 billion rubles

On March 17 and 20, the Federal Bailiff Service imposed a security arrest on the property of businessman Alexander Galitsky. Izvestia found the corresponding solution in the FSPP database. The enforcement proceedings were initiated as part of the consideration in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow of the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on the recognition of Galitsky's extremist activities. As the source explained to Izvestia, the arrest concerns all of the businessman's movable and immovable property in Russia, which is estimated at about 1 billion rubles in the lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, and about 7 billion rubles in his bank accounts. However, according to the calculations of the publication, the real value of the seized property may be several times more.

Arrest during trial

The Federal Bailiff Service of Russia (FSSP) has imposed a restriction (preliminary arrest) on the property and accounts of businessman Alexander Galitsky, Izvestia found out. The decision was made on March 17 regarding the property, and on March 20 regarding the other part. Information about the start of enforcement proceedings appeared in the FSSP database.

According to the Izvestia source, the preliminary arrest was imposed as a preliminary defense against the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, which was filed with the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow on March 11. The agency requests that Alexander Galitsky and his Almaz Capital Partners corporation be recognized as extremist and banned from operating in the territory of the Russian Federation. As part of the lawsuit, the Prosecutor General's Office also demanded that the billionaire's property be converted into state income.

According to the file of enforcement proceedings, the Tverskoy District Court issued a ruling on the seizure of the billionaire's property on March 11. A source familiar with the document told Izvestia that it refers to the need to seize all movable and immovable property belonging to Alexander Galitsky, including vehicles, aircraft and watercraft, intellectual property, securities, shares and shares in the authorized capital of commercial organizations, funds in bank accounts.

According to the definition, Galitsky is also temporarily restricted from traveling outside the Russian Federation, he is prohibited from opening new bank accounts, registering property, and credit organizations are ordered to terminate Galitsky's access to bank accounts.

— This is a fairly common measure, it is directly enshrined in article 139 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation. These are interim measures of the court. The measures may be imposed either at the request of the party or at the initiative of the court. But, as a rule, if the Prosecutor General's Office comes out with such a claim, she herself files a petition for the application of such measures," lawyer Alexander Zorin explained to Izvestia.

According to him, this is a preliminary provision for the claim so that the property is not sold, not re-registered, not donated or withdrawn. To this end, the court blocks any transactions with this property, but this measure is temporary: if the claim is satisfied, the measures remain in place, if not, they are canceled, the lawyer added.

Apartments and houses

In the lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, Alexander Galitsky's real estate is estimated at more than 1 billion rubles, a source familiar with the document told Izvestia. It also says that more than 7 billion rubles have been deposited in bank accounts. However, Izvestia's estimates based on market prices suggest that the value of Galitsky's luxury properties in Moscow and the Moscow region, which are subject to restrictions, may exceed 3 billion rubles.

So, in particular, the businessman's apartment with an area of 253 square meters was arrested. m and parking space in the Turgenev premium clubhouse in Kostyansky Lane in the center of Moscow. Apartments of similar square footage in this building cost more than 1 billion rubles, according to the CIAN data. The cadastral value of a parking space next to this luxury apartment building exceeds 6 million rubles.

Bailiffs also arrested Galitsky's other apartment in the center of Moscow with an area of 193.3 square meters and several parking spaces in the elite residential complex Malaya Bronnaya 15. The cost of an apartment in this residential complex of a similar area now exceeds 1 billion rubles, reaching 4.5-6 million rubles per square meter, Izvestia was convinced.

Galitsky's house with an area of 908.9 square meters in the Millennium Park cottage village in the Istra district of the Moscow region was also subject to restrictions. In real estate aggregators, prices for houses of a similar size in this village start at 600 million rubles.

Movable property was also subject to restrictions, in particular, a 2020 BMW X5 car registered to Galitsky. In Moscow, the ban on registration actions with this vehicle has been in effect since March 20, in St. Petersburg - since March 16, it follows from the open database of the traffic police.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office's version stated in the lawsuit, Galitsky's ownership of all these assets leads to the development of the financial base of the entire extremist association, a source familiar with the document told Izvestia.

Alexander Galitsky himself, speaking on March 19 at the Tverskoy District Court as part of the consideration of the claim of the SOE, denied his involvement in extremist activities. He stated that all the materials presented by the prosecutor are "incorrect and do not correspond to the truth." Galitsky stressed that he does not manage the Almaz Capital fund and has no shares in it since 2022.

Galitsky, in addition to Russian, has Dutch citizenship, and indicates the Principality of Monaco as his place of residence. A month before the Prosecutor General's lawsuit, Izvestia published its own investigation into how Almaz Capital Fund invested in Ukrainian startups, including those producing dual-use products. Then, in particular, it turned out that the fund had invested more than $50 million in Ukraine.

After this publication, Almaz Capital removed Galitsky's photos from the website and sent a comment to the editorial office, according to which Galitsky has not been a general partner of the Fund since 2022.