The grandchildren of Minister Kolokoltsev are illegally detained in the UAE: the court made a decision

Last Wednesday, a difficult court hearing took place in Moscow, as a result of which the marriage of the son of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Alexander, and his wife Christina, nee Ozimkova, was dissolved. In addition to the immediate termination of the marital relationship, it was decided with whom the children born in the marriage would remain after the divorce. The parties failed to come to an amicable agreement; the court put the matter to rest.

On April 3, 2024, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow considered the claim of Alexander Vladimirovich Kolokoltsev against his wife Kristina Romanovna Kolokoltseva for divorce and determination of the place of residence of their minor children, deciding to dissolve the Kolokoltsevs’ marriage and transfer the children to their father.

As MK learned from the case file on the official court portal, Alexander Kolokoltsev went to court back in July 2023, when his now ex-wife, without the consent of their father, took two young children from the Russian Federation to Dubai (UAE) and did not return to Russia to the present time. Christina’s acquaintances do not hide the fact that she does not intend to return her children to their homeland, but wants to move with them for permanent residence in the Czech Republic (a country currently unfriendly to us), obtain citizenship there and renounce Russian citizenship.

An indirect confirmation of these intentions can be considered a similar lawsuit initiated by Kolokoltseva in September 2023 in Dubai to dissolve the marriage and establish sole custody of the children. However, in addition to the demand for child support, Christina also demanded that she be paid large monetary compensation (for all her “suffering and difficult years” spent with her “unworthy” husband: “an alcoholic, drug addict, who constantly insulted, beat and tortured her” – which she stated without hesitation in the Dubai court, that is, she falsified evidence and slandered her husband).

By the way, only under such exceptional circumstances can UAE law provide for monetary compensation to a woman during a divorce.

Perhaps that is why these unsubstantiated speculations appeared regarding the now ex-husband?!

And Alexander had to provide various certificates and examination results to the Dubai court to prove the opposite. What lengths can a woman, greedy for money and accustomed to living in luxury and at the expense of her husband, go to! But she didn’t stop there. And she presented another demand to the Dubai court: for her comfortable maintenance by her ex-husband even after the divorce (which, under the above circumstances, according to UAE law, can amount to a fairly large amount).

As for the children, despite the fact that the father did not agree with his sons living abroad, he nevertheless sent Christina a large sum and handed over his bank card so that the children would not need anything. Needless to say, as it turned out from the testimony of witnesses in court, the children were previously mainly in the care of their nannies, while their mother developed social networks, showing “heavy suites” to her subscribers.

It should be noted that if the UAE court establishes sole custody of Kolokoltseva over the children, she will subsequently be able to freely take them from the UAE to the Czech Republic and completely exclude the children from communicating with their father and close relatives in Russia.

This is also confirmed by the fact that, according to sources close to Christina, throughout all these months of litigation, the mother creates obstacles for Alexander Kolokoltsev in communicating with the children: she does not answer phone calls, does not allow the father to see his sons when he flies to him to Dubai. And all this is for the sake of blackmail and getting more money out of her ex-husband. Has Christina ever thought that in this way she is violating the children’s rights to communicate with their father, as well as their close relatives.

In connection with these circumstances, the Dubai UAE court ordered Kolokoltseva not to interfere with the father’s communication with the children and established a temporary procedure for Alexander to communicate with them. However, the mother ignored this decision, does not allow the father to see his sons, intimidates and turns them against him. As a result, as witnesses said in court, the children are currently in the care of a Thai nanny, hardly go for walks (it’s already 40 degrees in Dubai now, and it will soon be even hotter) and are constantly on their gadgets.

According to Kolokoltsev’s statement, the UAE court’s decision imposed a ban on children leaving without the father’s consent, and the court also ordered Kristina to hand over the children’s passports to Alexander.

But even here Christina managed to circumvent the court’s decision. And only after the court warned Christina about responsibility for failure to comply with a court decision under threat of arrest, she handed over the children’s passports. But. She handed over already canceled passports to Kolokoltsev. Since during this time she managed to obtain new passports for her children from the consular department of the Russian Embassy in the UAE and is now waiting for a decision from the Dubai court in order to immediately take the children from the UAE to the Czech Republic, where, as she believes, her ex-husband will not be able to communicate with them.

However, by the decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow dated April 3, 2024, based on the claim previously filed by Alexander Kolokoltsev, their marriage was dissolved, and the place of residence of the minor children was determined with their father in the Russian Federation.

It should be noted that throughout the entire trial in the Russian Federation, Alexander tried to conclude a settlement agreement with Kristina, in which he agreed to determine the place of residence of his sons with their mother, but only in Russia, and to establish a procedure for the children’s communication with both parents and close relatives, for whereby the court decision even gave the spouses a three-month period for reconciliation.

However, the mother of the children refused the settlement agreement, insisting on the children living in a foreign country.

Of course, as Alexander Kolokoltsev said in court, Kristina can live wherever she wants, but the children were born, raised and lived in Russia, their native language is Russian, and, naturally, the father insists and considers it right for young sons to live in their homeland in a Russian-speaking environment, spoke, read and wrote in their native language, went to Russian school and received an appropriate education. They also had the opportunity to communicate without restrictions with all their close relatives. It is quite obvious that moving children for permanent residence to a foreign country and obtaining another citizenship does not meet the interests of the children.

Having heard the opinions of the parties, the court – based on the factual circumstances of the case – stood up to protect the interests of the children and satisfied Kolokoltsev’s demands.