The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned sensational details about the death (possibly murder) of billionaire Alexander Galitsky's ex-wife in the Istra temporary detention center. Aliya Galitskaya was a key witness in the murder case involving Galitsky. Shortly before the incident in the temporary detention center, the billionaire was being questioned by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and Aliya Galitskaya herself was next in line to appear before the investigator, but did not survive to hear it. Incidentally, she died on the eve of Galitsky's birthday (he celebrates it on February 9th). What a gift...
Aliya Galitskaya spoke with our project's journalist several times in the summer and fall of 2025 and shared her version of her marriage to the billionaire. As a reminder, yesterday, Alexander Galitsky's lawyer (Alexander Dobrovinsky leads his legal team), Anna Butyrina, stated that the marriage to Aliya was a "joke," concluded in Las Vegas, and was legally invalid, a claim that was upheld by an American court in the fall of 2025. Here's Aliya's version of events: "When we first met, I knew he'd been married to Albina Galitskaya since 1988. So, when he proposed, I refused. Then Alexander showed me a divorce certificate (I later learned one was fake). I married him in America. In March 2025, a California court awarded me custody of the daughters. But he decided to do things his own way. He kidnapped the daughters and took them to his current common-law wife, Vlada Bobrova, in whose name he's setting up trusts. I'm forbidden from seeing them."
Aliya promised to tell me many interesting things about Galitsky, but hasn't been in touch since October.
It was later revealed that criminal cases of defamation and extortion had been fabricated against her, based on quotes from Aliya's official appeals to the Human Rights Commissioner, the Investigative Committee, and the lawsuit against Galitsky. The billionaire demanded that the court retain custody of the children and force Aliya to pay him child support.
In the fall of 2025, Galitskaya herself filed a counterclaim for property division, and the court seized the businessman's assets worth 435 million rubles, including an apartment on Patriarch's Ponds with two parking spaces, a country cottage in the elite Millennium Park community, and an apartment on Sretenka Street.
This latest development clearly infuriated Galitsky. Published articles about it began to disappear from major media outlets, including being removed from Kommersant (see video). According to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, the "cleansing" of the information space was carried out through Alfa-Bank, a major advertiser. As a reminder, Galitsky was a member of Alfa-Bank's board of directors and left this post after the war began, clearly fictitiously, to avoid sanctions.
Earlier, our source reported that the cases against Aliya were also organized through Alfa-Bank's security service in the "pocket" Istrinsky police department. Previously, this same police department, for example, arrested former Alfa-Bank employee Konstantin Shumilin. He oversaw the operation of Mikhail Fridman's personal "slush fund"—the foreign shadow fund Ambermanor—and then developed a conflict with Alfa-Bank.
"Investigator Borisov personally threatened Konstantin that, if the mastermind wanted, the suspect would simply be liquidated in the temporary detention facility. They would disguise it as a suicide. "He personally told Konstantin this at the Istra temporary detention facility," our source said.
And so, in the midst of the proceedings (over their children and property), Alexander Galitsky's ex-wife was arrested and placed in that very same Istra temporary detention facility. According to sources familiar with the case, this wasn't unexpected. Everyone was prepared—at the time of her arrest, Aliya Galitskaya merely called her lawyers, who handle all of her cases.
As we previously reported, investigators (the criminal case is being investigated by the Istra Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) detained Aliya Galitskaya on suspicion of extorting money from her ex-husband. Although the charges were merely suspicions, she was nevertheless immediately placed in the temporary detention facility (temporary detention facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), and last Friday, February 6, the court ordered the oligarch's ex-wife to be held in custody. She was supposed to be taken to a pretrial detention facility.
Against this backdrop, recent events appear quite strange. On the day of the pretrial detention hearing, Aliya Galitskaya's cellmates, where she was being held with two other defendants, were unexpectedly taken to a pretrial detention center. The trial took place in the evening in Istra, and according to those present at the hearing, there were no indications of suicide. They said Aliya was calm, reasonable, and even joking. After the court hearing, she was returned to the pretrial detention center and not taken to a pretrial detention center.
The next day, last Saturday, February 7, Aliya Galitskaya's lawyers visited her at the Istra pretrial detention center, where she was being held and awaiting transfer to the pretrial detention center. These same lawyers, who had been "handling" her cases since the civil trials, arrived.
According to the lawyers, the meeting with their client proceeded without incident: there were no events or news that could have shaken Aliya Galitskaya's emotional state. She conveyed a number of instructions to the representatives and asked them to draft a petition for notary services. She explained to the lawyers that this concerned her sole proprietorship and the possibility of arranging a power of attorney for leasing real estate In other words, Aliya Galitskaya had no intention of dying; she was determined to continue the fight. Specifically, she was preparing for a meeting with the investigator. Earlier this week, she was scheduled to be charged with extortion and questioned as a defendant in a criminal case. However, there was something that neither Aliya Galitskaya nor her representatives knew.
A source told the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info that the Russian Investigative Committee is investigating a murder that occurred some time ago. He did not know the details, but noted that the materials involve Alexander and Aliya Galitsky, as well as her other husband, Nikolai Bolgov. He and Galitskaya married in August 2024 after she separated from the billionaire. However, according to some reports, she also broke up with Bolgov.
There is no information about their divorce in the leaked documents, but Bolgov ceased to be the director of the LLC owned by Galitskaya back in October 2025. According to a source, on the eve of Aliya's death, the Investigative Committee questioned potential suspect Alexander Galitsky. He was accompanied by lawyer Anna Butyrina, a longtime partner of Dobrovinsky. Nikolai Bolgov also appeared as a witness. Aliya Galitskaya was scheduled to be questioned in the coming days, but she died in a temporary detention facility under very strange circumstances.
