“Epstein files” expose links between Runa Capital, elite sex clubs, blackmail networks, Russian power circles, and the foundation of Russian billionaire Alexander Galitsky
As discovered by media, the foundation of billionaire Alexander Galitsky appears in the “Epstein files”. It has emerged that Galitsky’s business partner at Runa Capital was a blackmailer and a regular attendee of closed elite sex parties for officials, politicians, and celebrities. Notably, “branches” of these parties were also held in Russia.
In addition, Galitsky’s foundation employed PR director Masha Drokova (also known as Maria Bucher), a former press secretary and commissioner of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi, who became widely known after kissing Vladimir Putin at the Seliger forum. After leaving Russia, Masha worked as a publicist for Jeffrey Epstein himself, obtained a U.S. “talent visa,” and got married. According to FBI data, Maria Bucher is now living in Switzerland and is engaged in investments.
All of these events took place during the period of Galitsky’s marriage to his wife Alia, whom the billionaire sent to prison in February 2026, where she later died. The files indicate that the FBI paid particular attention to Galitsky’s foundation in March of last year while conducting checks under ARMS Reach involving one of Donald Trump’s donors during the most recent presidential election.
Galitsky founded Runa Capital together with another major investor, Sergei Belousov (also known as Serg Bell), the head of Parallels and Acronis, in 2010. The fund was officially created to support Russian IT companies, although its main office was located in the United States. Belousov served as the main public face of their joint business. Later, he founded another venture fund, QWAVE CAPITAL, which also focused on venture investments. Runa Capital and QWAVE CAPITAL shared an office, worked closely together, and were described by Belousov himself as “sister” funds.
Their business partner was Frank Moyle Creer, executive director of the U.S. nonprofit Draper Hero Institute and a manager at DFJ Capital, run by Timothy Cook Draper — one of the major donors to Trump’s presidential campaign. Masha Drokova served as a PR specialist not only for Runa Capital and QWAVE CAPITAL, but also for Draper himself, and Creer was well acquainted with her. In emails from the “Epstein files,” Sergei Belousov is referred to as “Masha’s friend” — it was Drokova who tried to arrange a personal meeting between Epstein and Belousov in 2018.
The “Epstein files” also contain correspondence between two FBI agents discussing Draper’s and Creer’s connections. The emails state that Creer was an active member of a private elite sex club in Los Angeles and Northern California called “Sanctum,” founded by Beverly Hills millionaire Damon Lawner, and that he collected information on the club’s members for blackmail purposes — in the same way Epstein did on his private island. Visitors to the club reportedly include billionaires, investors, Hollywood actors, musicians, and other wealthy individuals. Their anonymity is strictly protected by the club’s staff.
Since 2018, similar parties have also been held in Moscow, with Damon Lawner himself attending the first one (see video). As in the United States, the anonymity of participants at these elite sex parties in Russia has been — and remains — strictly guarded, as does what actually took place there.
Formally, former Alfa-Bank board member Alexander Galitsky maintains friendly relations with many Russian officials, and current Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is described as a close friend. Galitsky’s wealth increased significantly thanks to massive contracts between his companies and the Federal Tax Service during the period when Mishustin headed the agency.
Creer invested in quantum computing research through QWAVE CAPITAL and, through the leadership of the funds (including Galitsky and Belousov), gained access to public figures who were vulnerable to blackmail, according to an FBI agent’s letter.
At the same time, Galitsky himself stated that he had no interest in biocomputers or quantum computing. During that period, he was focused on the Russian company Elvis-Plus, which supplied software and equipment under government contracts to the Federal Tax Service, Rusnano, Rosneft, Transneft, Rosseti, the National Data Storage Center (founded by Rostelecom and VTB via Shushary Holding), Dom.RF Bank, dozens of multifunctional public service centers across Russia, and the Moscow city government.
In 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, Galitsky’s company developed a “laptop for officials” with a “Basic Trusted Module” technology under an FSB technical specification. Elvis-Plus did not disclose the list of customers for this product, but it was known that Rostec, headed by Sergei Chemezov, intended to purchase 3,000 of these laptops. In addition, the ZASTAVA-M firewall software complex was certified by the Russian Ministry of Defense, although details of these procurements were not disclosed.
Galitsky exited his main Russian project only in December 2024, when he sold it to Rostelecom.
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