Bosov was found dead in May 2020 with a gunshot wound to the head,[2] and while his death was investigated as a suicide, his sons suspected foul play.
[citation needed] In 1991, he graduated with honors from the faculty of Radio Electronics and Laser Technology at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU).
[citation needed] From 1995, he was director of the TransWorld Group (later known as Trans World Commodities) Moscow office.
[18][19] In 2015, he established the Blackspace group of companies in Indonesia, obtaining licenses for coal, nickel, manganese and bauxite mining sites.
Since then, Blackspace has implemented two large projects - the development of a coal deposit in Central Kalimantan and the construction of a ferronickel plant on the island of Kabena.
Ekaterina (Bosov's widow) claimed 77% of the company and sued the rest of the heirs, but in the end she was left without a share.
Dmitry Bosov announced his readiness to participate in this project in a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on March 11, 2018.
[31] VostokCoal MC on a parity basis belongs to Dmitry Bosov and Alexander Isaev (chairman of the board).
[32] The Arctic Mining Company (AGK), part of the VostokCoal MC structure, began developing coal deposits on the Taimyr Peninsula around 2018.
[35] In 2019, Bosov was the subject of a negative media campaign, spurred by the arrest of his business partner, Mikhail Abyzov.
One of the grounds for initiating the case was the results of the inspection of the AGK by Rosprirodnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage) in 2017.
In the same year, Rosprirodnadzor fined AGK 954 million Rubles, stating that it was conducting illegal coal mining.
[37] In 2018, Bosov financed the creation of the Genius Fund, a vertically integrated cannabis company based in California.
The company sought to own its supply of marijuana, which would then be distributed through its line of luxury-branded dispensaries, seeking to disconnect from stoner culture.
[3] In April 2020, weeks before Bosov's death, a multi-million dollar lawsuit was filed, where former chief executive officer Francis J. Racioppi alleged "corporate mismanagement, subterfuge, and fraud."
[3] Bosov was found dead in Usovo, Moscow Oblast, on May 6, 2020, as a result of a gunshot wound to the head.