Zimin Boris Dmitrievich

Zimin Boris Dmitrievich

Biography

2023: Wanted list

On January 9, 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list the son of the founder of VimpelCom Dmitry Zimin, businessman and philanthropist Boris Zimin (recognized in Russia as an individual foreign agent).

According to "Газета.ру," on December 30, 2022, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow registered a petition for the arrest of the full namesake Zimin. According to the card on the court's website, B.D. Zimin is charged with part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). It involves punishment of up to 10 years in prison.

As the lawyer Alexander Antipov told RBC, the criminal case against Boris Zimin is related to the shares of the car-sharing company BelkaCar LTD. The source of the publication clarified that the entrepreneur is accused of making a deal to alienate ordinary shares of BelkaCar.

In the case of fraud with the sale of a controlling stake in BelkaCar, two defendants have already been detained - entrepreneurs Ralph Novak and Ilnur Azmukhanov, Izvestia reminds. They are accused of two episodes of fraud: embezzlement of 52.47% of BelkaCar Ltd and a 50% stake in Brynston SiEs LLC, owned by Swiss Bryanston Resources AG (BRAG). The victim in these episodes was an entrepreneur from Germany and a former business partner of Novak Benedict Sobotka.

Boris Zimin himself told RTVI that he considers his persecution related to politics:

Politics, which would not be formally indicated on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. My case is another sad and terrible evidence of the overthrow of the law and the entire legal system to the instrument, to the weapon... Zimin said.

Antipov told RBC that Zimin's defense considers it illegal to prosecute Boris Zimin. According to him, the accused was deprived of the right to petition for the cancellation of the order to bring him as an accused.^[1]

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