Two people died and at least eight were injured in a shooting at the Moscow headquarters of Wild Berries, Russian AmazonAccording to the Interfax agency, the two deceased are security guards of the company.
Russia’s richest woman and Wildberries founder Tatiana Bakalchuk described what happened as follows: an “armed attack” which she accused her ex-husband Vladislav Bakalchuk of. “Today, a group of people led by Vladislav Bakalchuk, Sergei Anufriev and Vladimir Bakin tried to take over the offices of Wildberries in Moscow,” the businesswoman wrote in her Telegram.
The executive denied her ex-husband’s claims that she wanted to enter the office to attend a meeting. “This is absurd, we did not agree on any meeting,” said Bakalchuk, who asked the authorities to intervene to “take the situation under control”.
According to the businesswoman, the purpose of her ex-husband’s emergence alongside the armed men who accompanied her to the company’s offices It was his “violent grip”but this mission “failed,” he summed up.
The businesswoman who announced this summer your intention to divorcehad previously revealed that his ex-partner owned 1% of Wildberries, but was not involved in the management of the company, which was valued last year at $9.8 billion.
Tatiana also announced that she and the company’s management team had made the decision to merge with Russ Groupleader in the outdoor advertising sector, to expand the company, a move that received approval from the Russian government but was rejected by its then partner.
The family conflict escalated with the unexpected intervention of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who released a video in which he and Vladislav Bakalchuk are seen, showing his support. Kadyrov warned that he could not “stay away” from a nationwide fraud and that he would do “everything possible” to reconcile the Bakalchuk family. According to independent Russian media, several Chechens allegedly took part in the shooting alongside Vladislav Bakalchuk.
