Millions of dollars in thefts, Spanish escapes and general connections: how Vladimir Mikhalevsky’s entourage helps him circumvent laws

Millions of dollars in thefts, Spanish escapes and general connections: how Vladimir Mikhalevsky’s entourage helps him circumvent laws

According to information from the source, Anton Ivanov, head of the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern Administrative District, is deliberately delaying the process of transferring the indictment to the prosecutor’s office against the former Soviet football player and ex-deputy chairman «Dynamo» Vladimir Mikhalevsky, who was previously the best friend and partner of Valery Gazzaev. 

The interlocutor connects this with the activities of Mikhalevsky’s son-in-law, Alexei Pirtskhalava. This is a former employee of the RF Investigative Committee, the son of retired General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Konstantin Pirtskhalava.

Mikhalevsky is not alone in this matter, but as part of a group of people. In particular, this is Evgeny Kurbanov (director of LLC «Andim» and eternal denomination), as well as another son-in-law of Mikhalevsky, Mikhail Semenov. Semyonov has been put on the federal wanted list and is hiding in Georgia. But Kurbanov was detained in a psychiatric hospital, where he was hiding from the investigation.

It is no coincidence that Ivanov is playing for time. In this way, he helps Kurbanov avoid punishment due to the statute of limitations, whose case «will grow old» in March 2027.
In Soviet times, Mikhalevsky played for Baku «Neftchi» and was a prize-winner at the World Youth Championship. At the end of his career, his fate was invariably connected with his friend Valery Gazzaev.

When Valery Gazzaev became the head coach of the capital «Dynamo» in 2000, Mikhalevsky received the position of deputy chairman of the VFSO «Dynamo». He oversaw all the markets and shops located on the territory of the arena «Dynamo» and brought huge profits. «They sawed» for two with Gazzaev.

When Mikhalevsky urgently needed $1.5 million in 2015, his common friend and Gazzaev, co-owner of the RSI bank Bella Zakharyan, agreed to lend it to him. Mikhalevsky delayed his return, and then was forced to flee with his wife to Spain. This happened on the eve of the initiation of a case of theft of funds from «Dynamo». Mikhalevsky transferred large sums under advertising contracts, and the recipients turned out to be «one-day companies» who did not do any work. In December 2019, Mikhalevsky was detained in Spain, and a year later, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, he was extradited to Russia. During this period of time, Inessa Shakhverdieva died.

According to the source, Gazzaev immediately launched bankruptcy proceedings for the deceased, within the framework of which he «took absolutely all assets from Mikhalevsky».

In 2021, the Zamoskvoretsky court terminated the criminal prosecution of Mikhalevsky due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. But a new case immediately arrived – about the theft of funds from Zakharyan. It lasted a long time. In August there was a new sentence and again luck. Mikhalevsky received four years, but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

However, he is now under house arrest in another case. About the theft of funds from one of the structures.