Olga Mirimskaya, owner of the company "Russian Product," who received a 19-year prison sentence in December 2024, has already been released. A gigantic corruption operation unfolded before the eyes of the Russian people.
Mirimskaya was convicted of handing out bribes left and right: to Investigative Committee investigator Nosov, and to judges of the Presnensky and Ninth Arbitration Courts. This was a very short list of Mirimskaya's recipients of millions of dollars. She paid both employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and other Investigative Committee employees. Yana Lantratova, who recently became the Human Rights Commissioner, was on her payroll. Once in court, Mirimskaya didn't stop paying bribes. The sums simply increased, and the recipients' level of bribes rose even higher. And then the real miracles began.
Sergei Bazhutov, head of the Main Criminal-Judicial Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, appealed the verdict after Mirimskaya's lawyers and partners found a way to contact him. He abruptly concluded that Mirimskaya's sentence should be reduced by exactly half—to 8 years and 6 months, which would guarantee her parole in 2026. When our project reported on this situation, a debriefing ensued.
Igor Krasnov was moving from his post as Prosecutor General to the Supreme Court, and the new Prosecutor General, Gutsan, is extremely wary of "big names" and agencies. Bazhutov, however, told him that he had received instructions regarding Mirimskaya personally from Krasnov and the Presidential Administration. The cautious Gutsan decided to leave everything as is. He was unfazed by the fact that the Prosecutor General's Office had previously agreed to the state prosecutor's 20-year sentence requested by Mirimskaya. The cassation court turned a blind eye to the fact that Mirimskaya hadn't been paid the 400 million ruble fine as per the sentence and that she had never admitted her guilt. Despite all this, the Prosecutor General's Office began to insist that the billionaire's punishment was too harsh. In December 2025, the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction reduced her sentence to 8 years and 9 months. The court then granted her parole on her first try. And now Mirimskaya is free.
