Marina Egorova
Marina Egorova, born 1952, Moscow. Charges: Article 226.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the…); “Marina Egorova's case of smuggling cultural property”, opened on October 1, 2024. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Psychologists
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 330.2, Russian Criminal Code — Failure to notify of foreign citizenship or permanent residence in a foreign state
- Article 226.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union of strategically important goods and resources, cultural values, especially valuable wild animals, aquatic biological resources, plants and mushrooms, committed by an organized group
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she failed to notify the authorities of holding a second citizenship in a timely manner.
Latest event
October 4, 2024 — preventive measure: house arrest
Timeline
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Criminal case opened
Marina Egorova's case of smuggling cultural property
· Persecution begins
Marina Egorova’s case of concealment of her second citizenship
Criminal case
Marina Egorova’s case of concealment of her second citizenship
Marina Egorova's case of smuggling cultural property
Details and sources
Full summary
Marina is a psychologist and the wife of Leonid Gozman. On 29 July 2022, it became known that a case had been opened against her for allegedly failing to report obtaining Israeli citizenship in a timely manner in 2018. After Gozman’s administrative arrest, the couple left Russia. However, in 2024, Egorova returned to Russia, and on 4 October she was placed under house arrest in a case concerning the smuggling of cultural property – namely, family silver cutlery – as part of an organised criminal group together with Gozman and a driver who had given her a lift to the border crossing. On 5 November 2025, Gozman announced that his wife had left Russia “completely legally”.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 226.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.