Alexey Valentinovich Mitrofanov is a Russian politician, a member of the LDPR party from 1991 to 2007 and the A Just Russia faction from 2007 to 2011, a deputy of the State Duma of the 1st-4th and 6th convocations. Showman, publicist, producer.

Childhood and youth

Alexey was born on March 16, 1962 in the family of the nomenclature chief of the USSR State Planning Committee. By the time their son was born, parents Valentin and Zoya Mitrofanov’s eldest daughter, Eleanor, born in 1953, was already growing up. Subsequently, the girl went into politics and became the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Russian Federation to UNESCO. According to rumors, Zoya Mitrofanova was his wife’s cousin. Alexei Mitrofanov himself was called a grandson and also an illegitimate son behind his back.

At the age of 7, Alexey was sent to an elite special school, after which the young man entered the Faculty of International Relations of MGIMO. In 1983, Mitrofanov received a diploma in international economics and two years later got a job at the Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and at the USSR Foreign Ministry. In 1988, the young man entered graduate school at the Institute of the USA and Canada.

Returning to his homeland in 1991, Mitrofanov went into show business. Alexey realized his creative talent at the Ostankino television studio, promoting the Musical Forecast program and the Step to Parnassus festival. Mitrofanov composed scripts for the first Russian shows, wrote poems in English for songs,. The former international specialist took up the production of the rating projects “Mask Show” and “Gentleman Show”.

Policy

Alexey Mitrofanov entered politics in 1991 while making a film about the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. The politician positively assessed Mitrofanov’s honest journalistic view and invited the young man to join the party. Initially, Alexey Valentinovich was accepted into the LDPR youth bloc, which was headed by the writer.

In 1993, Mitrofanov transferred to the main bloc of the party and soon found himself in the State Duma seat among the elected candidates from the LDPR in the parliamentary elections. Mitrofanov immediately took the important post of deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, and two years later Alexei Valentinovich received the position of chairman. Mitrofanov participated in overseeing the international situation in hot spots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In the late 90s, the politician also visited Cuba as a guest at the World Festival of Youth and Students.

The deputy’s outrageousness manifested itself during his participation in the 1999 election race for the position of mayor of Moscow, when the politician threatened to deal with the foreign tobacco companies British American Tobacco and Philip Morris, whose activities had a destructive effect on the gene pool of Russia. Having lost the elections, Mitrofanov received the position of member of the State Duma Committee on Banks. Mitrofanov did not retreat from his struggle and brought the matter to trial. But the claim for $500 million was rejected by the Kuntsevsky court of the capital.

Alexei Mitrofanov's stay in the Duma was always accompanied by loud statements from the politician. In 2001, a deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party called for criminal prosecution of foreign political leaders: the former US Secretary of State and former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, who had already left the presidency.

In 2002, Alexey Valentinovich called for amendments to Russian legislation to punish non-traditional relationships between women. In the same year, the politician made a protective speech in favor of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with a proposal to grant him political asylum in Russia. A year later, after the US attack on Iraq, he called on the Russian president to begin supplying weapons to the Iraqi government.

In 2003, Mitrofanov took the post of chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation in the State Duma. At the same time, Alexey Valentinovich continued producing dubious projects. Under his leadership, in 2005, the porn film “Julia” was released, in the main characters of which the images of a Ukrainian politician and a Georgian president were discernible. Two years later, Mitrofanov released a continuation of the story - the film “Misha or the New Adventures of Yulia.” Since 2006, Alexey Mitrofanov began participating in the talk show “Let Them Talk” as a regular guest of the program.

In the mid-2000s, Alexey Valentinovich’s attitude towards the LGBT community changed dramatically. Mitrofanov begins to help the Russian group “Tatu” and even nominates singers for the Order of Friendship. Since the beginning of 2007, Alexey led the preparations for the march of sexual minorities, which was to take place in the capital in May.

Alexey Mitrofanov and Yulia Volkova from the Tatu group

In 2007, after a series of reprimands from the leadership of the LDPR, Mitrofanov left the faction and became a member of A Just Russia. But in the first elections from the party branch in the Penza region, Mitrofanov was defeated and did not get into the fifth convocation of the State Duma.

In 2011, Mitrofanov, representing A Just Russia, was elected to the parliamentary seat for the fifth time. A year later, Alexey received the position of chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and Communications. But in the same year, a major corruption scandal involving Mitrofanov broke out, which radically influenced the political biography of the deputy.

Mitrofanov was charged with extorting a bribe in the amount of $200 thousand, which the politician was supposed to receive in the restaurant of the Renaissance Hotel from businessman Vyacheslav Zharov. The defendants in the case were the deputy's close associates - Alexander Derevshchikov and Radish Sautiev, who were detained at the time of transfer of money. Mitrofanov himself, having parliamentary immunity, was not harmed.

At the time of 2012, the assets of the Mitrofanov family included a land plot of 50 hectares, three Moscow apartments and 7 foreign cars, which included BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota Land Cruiser.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation made a request to the State Duma asking for help in detaining the suspect. In 2012, the deputy was expelled from the A Just Russia party due to Mitrofanov’s support for the candidacy for the post of head of government. In the summer of 2014, Alexey lost his parliamentary powers and lost his post as chairman of the Information Technology Committee.

The Russian Investigative Committee immediately charged the politician with fraud as part of an organized group. Alexey Mitrofanov chose to immediately go abroad, citing poor health. In Europe, the disgraced politician settled in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb. In October of the same year, the court of the Dorogomilovsky district of Moscow decided to deprive Mitrofanov of part of his property to pay off debts on receipts in the amount of 1.4 million euros.

Personal life

Alexey Mitrofanov is married to journalist, former RTR special correspondent Marina Nikolaevna Lillevali, born in 1960. The son from his wife’s previous marriage, Ivan Alekseevich, was born in 1984, and after school he graduated from MGIMO.

Ivan inherited from his stepfather Alexei Valentinovich a love of outrageousness: the young man was never shy about giving interviews to journalists about the life of golden youth. Mitrofanov's son spent his free time in elite Moscow clubs, where, according to rumors, he used soft drugs. At the age of 30, the young man decided to settle down and went on the “Let's Get Married” program to look for a life partner. Currently engaged in banking audit, he helped his adoptive father in his parliamentary activities.

The Mitrofanov and Lillevali family have a common daughter, Zoya, born in 2003. Now the family is next to Alexey Valentinovich in Zagreb, where Marina Nikolaevna is engaged in entrepreneurship in the real estate sector.

Alexey Mitrofanov now

The name of Alexei Mitrofanov is associated with rumors about love affairs with media figures. Back in 2014, the politician was suspected of having a close relationship with the host of Dom-2. At the end of 2016, after Olga and her husband, a romance flared up again between the former lovers. To confirm the facts, joint photos of Buzova and Mitrofanov appeared on the Internet. But other than rumors, no information was disseminated.

In 2017, BMW Bank officially declared Alexey Mitrofanov bankrupt in a case of non-payment of a loan in the amount of 79 million rubles. To pay off the debt, the Khamovnichesky District Court recovered the necessary amount from the Mitrofanov family, and all Russian property of the former deputy was seized.

Now Mitrofanov faces deportation from Croatia due to the expiration of his international passport, and the politician will be forced to return to Russia. At home, according to lawyer Alexander Zorin, Alexey Valentinovich can expect a new charge of malicious concealment from paying a debt. Punishment for this crime provides for a term of imprisonment of up to 2 years.

Investigation

No, not from TV screens, but from a criminal case

The Moscow Meshchansky Court issued a verdict on a separate part of the criminal case of major fraud, in which two capital “deciders”, a bailiff, and also State Duma deputy, head of the Committee on Information Policy Alexei Mitrofanov are mentioned. One of the deputy’s alleged acquaintances, Rashid Sautiev, volunteered to help the businessman “resolve the issue” in arbitration for $200 thousand, was caught red-handed, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement and fully admitted his guilt. The case was considered in two sessions: Sautiev was eventually sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

Other arrested participants in corruption events also give detailed testimony, talking, in particular, about deputy Mitrofanov, who, however, mysteriously disappeared from the criminal case.

Novaya found out the details of this story, and its reporters were able to discover a joint photo of deputy Mitrofanov with one of the “deciders,” although the deputy himself stated that he allegedly did not know this person.

The essence of the case is this: on May 12, 2012, at the Renaissance Hotel on Olimpiysky Prospekt, operatives from the department “O” of the GUEB and PC for Moscow (fighting economic crimes and combating corruption) recorded the receipt of Rashid Sautiev in the presence of musician Alexander Derevshchikov, a bailiff Ali Kodzoev, as well as State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov, who was at the next table, 2 million 250 thousand rubles. According to the resolution to initiate a criminal case, signed by investigator A.D. Bogdanov, “these persons were unable to dispose of these funds on a particularly large scale due to circumstances beyond their control, as they were detained by police officers.” According to investigators, for $200 thousand, Sautiev promised businessman Vyacheslav Zharov “to settle his problems with Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd. in Arbitration Court No. 9 and with the leaders of the Solntsevo organized crime group.”

The transfer of the first tranche was to take place at the hotel. However, Mr. Zharov doubted the authority of the “decider” and turned to the police. As proof, he handed over an audio recording of a conversation made the day before with a man whose voice was similar to the voice of Deputy Mitrofanov - this man allegedly “promised to solve all the problems for an appropriate reward.”

According to our source in law enforcement agencies, strange things began to happen in the criminal case almost immediately: Derevshchikov, Sautiev and Kodzoev were taken to the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Central Administrative District and released late at night. Deputy Mitrofanov completely refused to testify (he referred to parliamentary immunity) and stated: “... this is the first time I’ve heard the name Sautiev. Derevshchikov is known as a rock party animal, and I don’t know them personally.” Although footage from CCTV cameras installed in the cafe recorded how the people's choice entered the cafe together with the "dealers", communicated with them and was nearby at the moment when money was transferred from the briefcase to the bag.

Three months after his arrest, businessman Zharov inquired about the fate of criminal case No. 182066, initiated at his request. And it turned out that the investigation was practically suspended “due to the impossibility of identifying the persons involved in the crime,” despite the fact that these same persons were happily walking free. And the number of defendants unexpectedly shrank: for example, bailiff Kodzoev was mentioned as a kind of “third party” (he was later put on the federal wanted list), and Mitrofanov was not even mentioned as a witness.

The indignant businessman sent a telegram to Vladimir Putin, but there was no response. Then Zharov telegraphed to all Duma factions. Only two responded: United Russia called the telegram “black PR,” and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation sent a parliamentary request to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

And soon video footage of the arrest at Renaissance appeared on the Internet, and a loud scandal broke out, which, however, largely affected the fate of the police officers. A criminal case was opened against the two operatives who carried out the arrest and the investigator of the Investigative Committee (they are suspected of receiving a bribe).

However, the frightened guitarist Derevshchikov and Sautiev themselves came to the investigator and gave interesting testimony. For example, Derevshchikov allegedly stated that he worked for deputy Mitrofanov as an assistant on a voluntary basis, and presented a photo of him and the deputy in a nightclub.

It is worth noting that the father of the arrested Derevshchikov is a very high-ranking person: a member of the Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation, a candidate of military sciences, a consultant to various committees and patriotic organizations, and on his website on social networks he posted a photo with Putin and Medvedev, where they allegedly congratulate Happy birthday to him (we're currently trying to figure out if it's photoshopped).

As a result, Derevshchikov and Sautiev entered into a pre-trial agreement, bailiff Kodzoev is allegedly hiding in Cyprus, and deputy Mitrofanov, after this story, headed the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications in the Duma and does not leave TV screens.

Mitrofanov recently told one media outlet: “Every evening I go to public places that are visited by very different people. If a Georgian thief in law is sitting 10 meters from me, this does not mean that we are preparing a crime with him.”

It remains to add that businessman Zharov began to receive threats after the scandal, and he and his family were forced to hide abroad. And Sautiev, who was counting on a suspended sentence after a deal with the investigation, received a real “three ruble” - and really, why slander respected people...

Today everyone in our country knows the name of politician and former State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov. And if earlier his face never left TV screens, since he was a regular on all kinds of talk shows (very often not even politically oriented), as well as a lover of social events and a friend of many modern Russian pop stars, now his popularity has acquired a bright scandalous shade . This is connected with last year’s investigation by the Investigative Committee, as a result of which Alexey Mitrofanov lost his home in the Duma and parliamentary immunity. In light of all these events, it becomes interesting to observe how they behave and what they are interested in in life. children of Alexey Mitrofanov.

In the photo - Alexey Mitrofanov with his wife

The former deputy and his wife Lillevali Marina have two children - an adopted son Ivan from the previous marriage of the politician’s wife and a daughter Zoya together. And if it is still difficult to say anything definite about the politician’s daughter, except that she is only 12 years old and she studies, naturally, not in a provincial school, but in one of the best elite schools in the capital, then the son of a deputy has long attracted attention press attention.

In the photo - Alexey Mitrofanov with his daughter Zoya

Ivan admitted in one of his interviews that he considers Alexei Mitrofanov his own father, since it was he who raised him and gave him a good education. In general, the relationship between father and son is simply wonderful. The guy received a diploma from the prestigious MGIMO. For some time, Ivan Mitrofanov worked under his stepfather - his personal assistant in the State Duma. This happened when the latter was a member of the LDPR party.

In the photo - Alexey Mitrofanov with his son Ivan

Scandalous interviews with the son of Alexei Mitrofanov about the real life of the so-called “golden youth” also date back to the same period. Well, in principle, there is nothing strange in the fact that a son tries to inherit his father in everything - both in habits and behavior. Just as Alexey Mitrofanov himself is no stranger to all kinds of entertainment establishments, his adopted son was at one time an avid visitor to nightclubs, expensive restaurants and bars. On the other hand, young people generally tend to have fun, and in this the children of deputies are no different from the children of ordinary people, except that the former have a wider range of opportunities. However, having crossed the threshold of his thirties, Ivan Mitrofanov began to lead a less scandalous life (or simply a quieter one?) and changed his place of work. Now he works as an auditor in one of the capital's banks.

Recently, information has appeared that Alexey Mitrofanov is now in Croatia, where his wife and children had already left.
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The Moscow Arbitration Court included in the register of creditors' claims of ex-deputy Alexey Mitrofanov, who was declared bankrupt in December 2017, a liability of 7.3 million rubles. He will have to return this amount to the father of the ex-owner of the Gorilka chain of stores, Oleg Dergilev, Evgeniy.

Include the demand of Evgeniy Georgievich Dergilev in the amount of 5,652,200 rubles of the principal debt, 1,778,544.23 rubles of interest and 5,000 rubles of expenses for paying the state duty in the third priority of satisfying the register of creditor claims of citizen Alexey Valentinovich Mitrofanov.<...>Having studied the case materials and the documents presented, the court comes to the conclusion that Dergilev’s demand in the stated amount should be recognized as justified, says the Arbitration decision of January 10, 2017.

The parents of the vodka magnate appealed to the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow back in November 2016, having learned that the widow of their son, Anna Dergileva, had collected the bulk of the debt of €1.4 million from Mitrofanov. As it turned out, in 2013, her husband gave Mitrofanov a total of €1.5 million, or 68 million rubles at the then exchange rate.

As Life previously reported, four promissory notes were evidence of Mitrofanov’s debt to the vodka magnate’s family: two for €500 thousand each, one for €400 thousand and another for €100 thousand.

As a result, in February 2017, the court upheld the claim of the Dergilev seniors and decided to recover 10% of the amount for the first three receipts from Mitrofanov. Thus, the total amount of the recovery was €140 thousand.

Former parliamentarian Alexei Mitrofanov's problems began in 2014. Then he was deprived of parliamentary immunity and left Russia. This happened shortly after a criminal case was opened against the deputy for extorting $200 thousand from businessman Vyacheslav Zharov.

BMW Bank filed a bankruptcy claim for Mitrofanov in January 2017. In March 2012, the deputy took out a loan from the bank for 3.7 million rubles. for five years, but never paid it off. In December last year, the court declared the fugitive politician bankrupt and introduced a procedure for the sale of property against him.

In addition to the Dergilev family and BMW Bank, five more creditors have financial claims against Mitrofanov. For example, the ex-deputy owed 384 million rubles to the Technology Development Bank, about 80 million rubles to Unicredit Bank, Bratsevskoye LLC - more than 43 million rubles, and the ASN-invest company - more than 21 million rubles. The total amount of Mitrofanov's debt is more than 543 million rubles.

In a conversation with Life, Mitrofanov’s financial manager, Viktor Eltsov, said that Mitrofanov’s accounts are empty, however, the parliamentarian owns BMW-750Li and GAZ-21 cars, as well as a plot of land in the Pskov region.

A 2010 BMW 750Li xDrive executive sedan produced by bankrupt ex-deputy Alexei Mitrofanov, who is accused of extortion in Russia, was sold at auction for 979 thousand rubles. This is more expensive than originally planned.

The results of the auction were summed up on July 14, but this became known only now. According to the auction materials, Mitrofanov’s foreign car went to the capital’s businessman Dmitry Konenkov. The auction report notes that the buyer is in no way connected or related to the debtor.

All that is known about the happy buyer of Mitrofanov’s sedan is that he is 34 years old and in the past he was involved in business. Until 2014, Dmitry Konenkov was registered as an individual entrepreneur in the capital’s Chertanovo district, and was engaged in trading fruits and vegetables.

The 2010 BMW 750Li xDrive, the flagship of the Bavarian automaker, was put up for auction back in July with a starting price of only 675 thousand rubles. Such a low starting price was explained by several factors.

As stated in the assessment report, which was drawn up before the auction, firstly, the foreign car has “operation defects”: cracks and scratches on the bumpers, and the error “No electronic key, engine starting is impossible” is displayed on the dashboard. Apparently, while the owner is running around the world, the keys to his car were simply lost. The new owner will have to order keys in Bavaria through an official dealer. Secondly, Mitrofanov’s BMW was seized by court decision, which also reduces the market value of the foreign car.

Despite this, they managed to sell the car at a higher price; now all the proceeds will go towards repaying the ex-State Duma deputy’s debt to creditors, which amounts to an astronomical 550 million rubles.

Mitrofanov bought the car himself in 2012, when he was a deputy. He took out a loan of 3.7 million rubles from BMW Bank. When it became clear that the parliamentarian was not going to repay the debt, the bank filed a bankruptcy claim for the former parliamentarian. In December 2017, the court upheld the claim of the credit institution and introduced a procedure for the sale of property against Mitrofanov.

True, Mitrofanov’s accounts in Russia are empty. In addition to the BMW 750Li, which is about to be sold, a security arrest has been placed on half of the ex-deputy’s apartment on Slavyansky Boulevard in Moscow, an apartment in the village of Sosny near Moscow, a plot of land in the Pskov region, as well as another BMW and a Volga.

Even if all this is somehow sold at the maximum price, this will not be enough for Mitrofanov to pay off his debts.

Several other creditors have financial claims against Mitrofanov. In addition to BMW Bank, these are relatives of the murdered “vodka king” Oleg Dergilev, Technology Development Bank, Unicredit Bank, Bratsevskoe LLC and ASN-invest. The total amount of Mitrofanov's debt is more than 543 million rubles.

Now Mitrofanov and his 56-year-old wife Marina Lillevali live in Croatia, where they have a business. The ex-deputy has been promising the Investigative Committee in Moscow for many years to appear before the investigator and “surrender,” but he still fails to fulfill his promise. Investigators, in turn, tried to put Mitrofanov on the international wanted list, but things haven’t worked out for them yet.