Moscow — Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Russia’s richest woman, was arrested and charged with murder Thursday, his lawyers said, after a deadly shootout at the Moscow office of Russia’s 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 the company’s future took a violent turn.
Tatyana founded Wildberries, Russia’s answer to Amazon, in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for all kinds of goods.
Tatyana Bakalchuk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Wildberries OOO, pictured in her office in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 16, 2021.
Tatyana said Vladislav and his colleagues had tried to seize the office and that there was no meeting scheduled.
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Kremlin, Russ Group, Bloomberg, Getty
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Moscow, Russia, RVB, Wildberries, Soviet Union