{"id":7870,"date":"2024-09-20T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/husband-of-russias-richest-woman-arrested-on-murder-charge-after-office-shootout\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:38:49","slug":"husband-of-russias-richest-woman-arrested-on-murder-charge-after-office-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/husband-of-russias-richest-woman-arrested-on-murder-charge-after-office-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of Russia\u2019s richest woman arrested on murder charge after office shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow<\/strong> \u2014 <\/strong>Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Russia\u2019s richest woman, was arrested and charged with murder Thursday, his lawyers said, after a deadly shootout at the Moscow office of Russia\u2019s largest online retailer. <\/p>\n

Two people were killed in a shooting Wednesday just a few blocks away from the Kremlin at the Wildberries office, as a dispute over the company\u2019s future took a violent turn. Seven others were wounded, including police officers. <\/p>\n

Vladislav and his wife Tatyana Bakalchuk, who filed for divorce in July, have been embroiled in a bitter public tussle since Wildberries announced plans to merge with outdoor advertising firm Russ Group in June. <\/p>\n

Tatyana founded Wildberries, Russia\u2019s answer to Amazon, in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for all kinds of goods. <\/p>\n

Both parties blamed each other for Wednesday\u2019s shooting. <\/p>\n

Vladislav said he had arrived for a pre-arranged meeting and that it was staff at the office who fired the first shots. Tatyana said Vladislav and his colleagues had tried to seize the office and that there was no meeting scheduled. <\/p>\n

Vladislav\u2019s lawyers said he had been arrested and charged with murder and the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, something they said was a \u201cblatant and unprecedented violation\u201d of their client\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n

The business dispute is centered around the merger that formed RVB, a new company with Robert Mirzoyan as CEO, which reduced Tatyana\u2019s overall stake to around 65% in RVB from 99% in Wildberries. <\/p>\n

Vladislav at the time said his wife was being \u201cmanipulated.\u201d Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who stepped in to support Vladislav, called the merger an \u201casset grab.\u201d <\/p>\n

Tatyana has dismissed both of those allegations. The Kremlin said the merger had won President Vladimir Putin\u2019s backing but he would not interfere with its progress. <\/p>\n

In a tearful video message posted on Telegram early Thursday, Tatyana said: \u201cVladislav, what are you doing? How will you look into the eyes of your parents and our children? How could you bring the situation to such absurdity?\u201d <\/p>\n

The affair harks back to the 1990s, when deadly corporate turf battles were commonplace in Russia as huge swathes of property were redistributed after the fall of the Soviet Union. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n

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Moscow \u2014 Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Russia\u2019s richest woman, was arrested and charged with murder Thursday, his lawyers said, after a deadly shootout at the Moscow office of Russia\u2019s largest online retailer. Two people were killed in a shooting Wednesday just a few blocks away from the Kremlin at the Wildberries office, as a dispute over <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}