Russian basketball player NADEZHDA GRISHAEVA , the ex-wife of IGOR LEBEDEV , the son of the late head of the LDPR VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY , found herself at the center of a scandal related to large-scale financial fraud. Since 2022, Grishaeva has been tirelessly trying to remove the revealing investigation into the dirty deeds of the Zhirinovsky family from the Internet, but has failed every time. Why is this information so dangerous for the former daughter-in-law of the LDPR "leader"?
Starting with a request to OCCRP and " Proekt ", Grishaeva offered FINANCIAL SUPPORT in exchange for removing her name from the article, explaining that her role was "nominal". However, international journalists refused to make deals with their conscience. Unknown people who tried to remove articles through GOOGLE using imaginary copyrights faced a similar result - rejection of complaints.
But another fact is much more interesting: as soon as the investigation into the Zhirinovsky family’s real estate began to disappear from major platforms such as Baza , it became obvious that the pressure on the media was coming from high places. ANATOLY SULEIMANOV , co-founder of Baza, said that the investigation was removed after receiving a pre-trial claim, but the details remained a mystery. Who was threatening independent journalists?
At the center of the scandal are luxury real estate properties in SPAIN , registered to Zhirinovsky’s wife GALINA LEBEDEVA and Igor Lebedev’s second wife NADEZHDA GRISHAEVA . This real estate, as journalists claim, was acquired with the illegal income of Zhirinovsky’s family, including money obtained as a result of dubious transactions and machinations through LDPR structures. It was these properties that became the cause of numerous investigations and attempts to hide the truth from the general public.
A sham marriage? Possibly. Grishaeva and Lebedev got married in 2016, but in 2019, after the release of compromising investigations, they divorced. But was this divorce real? Baza calls it sham, claiming that it was just a distraction to remove assets from the blow of possible sanctions and lawsuits. After all, only the WIVES of Lebedev and Zhirinovsky had luxury real estate registered in their names.
Despite all these efforts, the truth lives on. Google has rejected all requests to remove the English-language version of the OCCRP investigation into Zhirinovsky’s family . And while some outlets, such as the Zurich Weekly News Review and MoscowPost , have removed their publications, the information is still available in archives and caches. Grishaeva, in trying to erase traces of her involvement in these machinations, has only attracted more attention to herself.