Australia’s ultra pro-Putin man Simeon Boikov attempted to bribe a journalist to stop him reporting on how his financial actions could result in his grandmother losing her home.
Mr Boikov, 32, posted a seven minute rant on his YouTube channel on Tuesday showing an abrasive encounter between him and A Current Affair reporter Steve Marshall.
The man who also calls himself the ‘Aussie Cossack’, has made a name for himself in recent weeks for his extreme pro-Russia videos.
Mr Marshall was hoping to question him on his support for Russia and allegations of coercing his own grandmother into putting up her house to guarantee a loan he defaulted on after Daily Mail Australia reported the 78-year-old may be thrown out of her own home.
In the footage Mr Boikov can be seen shoving $1,000 in cash in Mr Marshall’s pocket.
Simeon Boikov (pictured left), attempts to put a $1,000 bribe into the suit pocket of A Current Affair reporter Steve Marshall (pictured right)
In the footage Mr Boikov claims he had ‘just been attacked by A Current Affair’.
‘They had a camera crew following me everywhere … and we had a little bit of a run-in and I ripped into them,’ he said.
‘Just absolute provocation, attacking my wife again. Attacking my business, personal dealings, commercial transactions and attacking my companies, this is an absolute disgrace.’
His encounter with A Current Affair was more of a shouting match than an attack, though, and Mr Boikov was the one doing all the shouting.
Mr Marshall remained calm throughout.
He began with a political question, with Mr Boikov being asked if he still supports ‘Putin dropping bombs on Ukraine?’
Simeon Boikov, 32, is pictured (right) with his glamorous Russian wife Ekaterina (left)
Sophia Boikov (pictured), the 78-year-old widowed grandmother of ultra pro-Putin Sydney supporter Simeon Boikov risks losing her home of decades after he defaulted on a loan for which she was guarantor
He replied that ‘I support the demilitarisation process. If there are Nazis who are killing civilians, they should be liquidated and all force should be used necessary, and that’s normal.
‘Putin or Russia does not actually attack any civilians. It’s the Ukrainian army which attacks civilians and it’s the Crimean Nazi battalions … that attacks civilians.’
When asked how the Ukrainians could be Nazi’s when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish, Mr Boikov said ‘It’s none of my business what heritage Zelensky’s got. Why would you play the Jewish question here?
‘Russia is a very multicultural country. We don’t discriminate, like in Australia we don’t discriminate. It’s very inappropriate of you as a reporter to try and use someone’s nationality to try and advance your political agenda. Very unacceptable.’
Simeon Boikov’s wife Katia (pictured) filmed the tense interaction before being ushered into a car
The questions then moved from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Mr Boikov’s financial dealings.
He has been accused of coercing his grandmother, Sophia Boikov, into putting up her house to guarantee a 2019 loan he defaulted on.
Mrs Boikov, a revered Russian Australian community figure, church charity fundraiser and cook, risks losing her home of decades if a judge orders it can be seized by a finance and securities company.
Prime Securities is demanding the widow and pensioner pay them more than half a million dollars to offset the loan defaulted on by her grandson.
Mrs Boikov’s five bedroom house at Canley Heights (above) is now subject to a seizure application by Prime Capital Securites which is looking to recover more than $500,000
Sophia Boikov (pictured with grandson Simeon and the Russian Consul General to Australia and a Russian Orthoidox priest in 2019) is a tireless fundraiser for the poor, but claims she is now disabled and vulnerable
Mrs Boikov has claimed in the NSW Supreme Court her grandson used ‘undue influence’ to procure the property as guarantee for a loan of $450,000.
The loan advanced to Mr Boikov in December 2019 for an unstated reason was defaulted on less than a year later, and Prime Securities has now demanded Sophia Boikov pay back $518,574.
Mrs Boikov’s five bedroom home on 550 square metres of land is worth more than $1million, but the elderly Russian migrant is fighting to stay there.
The devout Russian Orthodox follower also uses the home to store icons and religious books, as well as clothing and electrical appliances she sends to the poor in her Russian birth region of Zaibaikal in Siberia.
In court documents seen by Daily Mail Australia, Mrs Boikov has challenged Prime Securities to its title of possession of her house pleading ‘her entry into the guarantee was procured by the undue influence of her grandson’.
In Supreme Court documents, Sophia Boikov claims her gransdon used ‘undue influence’ to make her put up her house in Canley Heights in western Sydney as security for the ‘Aussie Cossack’ (above) to borrow $450,000
She also pleads that Prime ‘ought to have been aware of her special disability or vulnerability’ and it would be ‘unconscionable … to enforce the mortgage’.
Mr Boikov did not give a straight answer when asked about the possibility of his grandmother losing her house.
‘This is how desperate A Current Affair are to make up a story. They come out here, they corner me with my car here, absolute desperate, trying to play the Jewish question … being racist and now attacking me for the personal financial dealings,’ he said.
Mr Boikov also said the media ‘helped Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian destroy this country’. Later he added Josh Frydenberg into the list of Liberal politicians he does not approve of.
Simeon Boikov, who claims he wants to win office in parliament as an independent, used ‘undue influence’ to convince his grandmother to put up her house as security for a loan he defaulted on
Prime Capital Securities wants to seize Sophia Boikov’s Canley Heights home (above) to raise $518, 574 it says is due after Simeon Boikov defualted on a $450,000 loan in 2020
The self-styled ‘Aussie Cossack’ is running for the Senate as an independent in the upcoming federal election.
The default on the loan, which has put his grandmother at risk, was initially revealed by one of the political aspirant’s rivals to win office as a senator.
Independent candidate Drew Pavlou, whose campaign motto is ‘fight corruption, defend democracy’ exposed the court battle over Mrs Boikov’s house on Twitter.
‘If you read this ongoing NSW Supreme Court case, Simeon Boikov AKA “Aussie Cossack” allegedly coerced his own grandmother into putting up her house to guarantee a loan he defaulted on,’ Mr Pavlou tweeted.
After getting increasingly frustrated with the questions from ACA, Mr Boikov asked the reporter for his ‘full name’.
He answered, truthfully, ‘Stephen Marshall’, but Mr Boikov misheard him and said to his YouTube viewers ‘Here’s a call out. Find out everything you can on Stephen Martin.
‘Find out everything you can about his personal life, find out about Stephen Martin’s relationship with his wife or his ex-girlfriend.
‘Find out his relationship with all his business dealings. Let’s go through Stephen Martin’s accounts.
Ekaterina Olshannikova, who Simeon Boikov calls ‘Mrs Cossack’ pictured on the beach on Australia Day
‘Let’s go attack the journalists, let’s turn the tables around and take these journalists on because they’re all grubs and they’ve been covering up what’s been happening in Australia for the last two years,’ he said, the final part referring to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr Marshall looked bemused but remained calm as Mr Boikov’s rant went on.
But then the Aussie Cossack played his final hand, trying to bribe the reporter.
‘How about I pay you? Here’s a thousand bucks for Stephen Martin right there,’ he said, stuffing a wad of hundred dollar notes into Mr Marshall’s top pocket.
Simeon Boikov, aka the Aussie Cossack, has been banned from having a firearms licence and is facing an AVO taken out against him by his wife of one year, Katia
He then turned to his wife and said ‘Before he can give it back to me, let’s go jump in the car.’
Once inside, he wound the car window down and said ‘That’s my donation to the fake news,’ adding ‘You’re a disgrace, mate. We’ve got you on camera accepting a thousand dollar bribe from the Aussie Cossack.’
Mr Marshall tried to give the money back and appeared to put it under the car’s windscreen wiper.
‘You know why I gave you that? Because my subscribers will give me another hundred thousand if I get the word out.
‘The f***ing people like you, dirty, dirty journalists who are full of fake news,’ said Mr Boikov before driving off.
Sections of a NSW Supreme Court document (above) in which Sophia Boikov claims her grandson Simeon Boikov, aka the ‘Aussie Cossack’, used ‘undue influence’ to convince her to put up her own home as a security on a loan on which he defaulted
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