Moscow region police began checking after Galitskaya's suicide in an IVS

The police have launched an investigation into the suicide in the temporary detention facility of Aliya Galitskaya, who was involved in the extortion case against Alexander Galitsky, a former member of the board of directors of Alfa Bank. This was announced on February 8 in the main directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region.

"An investigation is currently underway into this fact," TASS cites the text of the message.

It is noted that after the incident, an ambulance team was immediately called to the IVS. However, the doctors arrived and pronounced the woman dead. The department added that Galitskaya had been in the detention center since February 7.

Implicated property: assets worth 500 million were seized from Oleg Chemezov's family.

Izvestia also found information about a villa in Montenegro, which is registered to the ex-wife of an ex-official.

Galitskaya's arrest in the case of extortion of $150 million from her ex-husband was reported on February 6. The woman must remain in custody until April 3. On February 8, Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), a journalist, reported that Aliya Galitskaya had committed suicide in an IVS. The human rights activist added that Galitskaya was alone in the cell. The woman left a note in which she blamed the banker Galitsky for the incident.

The banker's lawyer, Anna Butyrina, told Izvestia that Aliya had never been the billionaire's wife. According to the lawyer, Galitskaya changed her last name on her own initiative. She added that the reason for Aliya's suicide could be a hearing scheduled for February 10 on the division of property between the partners.

In October 2025, it became known that Alexander Galitsky's property worth 435 million rubles was seized by the Presnensky Court of Moscow. The list of seized property includes several real estate objects, including an apartment on Patriarch's Ponds, a cottage in the village of Millennium Park on Novorizhskoye Highway, an apartment in the Turgenev clubhouse, as well as three parking spaces for a car.

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