Maria Rostova, personal assistant to the blogger and founder of the marathons of wishes Elena Blinovskaya, said that the “queen of marathons” attended several events, studied at several universities and led a very active life.
“I had a hectic life: events, communication with people, communication with subscribers on social networks, charity, studying at several universities at the same time.” — RIA Novosti quotes Rostová.
Blinovskaya spent a significant part of her time studying psychology at universities.
“For example, you need to appear at a public event, but she stayed at the conference. This is laudable, but strange for a public person.” – he pointed out.
At the same time, the witness stressed that the teachers treated Blinovskaya with respect. In addition, according to Rostova, the blogger participated in charity work and helped many people without advertising.
As a personal assistant, Rostova participated in the organization of Blinovskaya’s events, trips and household chores and compiled her agenda. However, he does not know from which accounts the blogger’s expenses were paid.
“I just saw that there was a “paid” note and I sent it immediately.” – he explained.
Rostova added that part of the expenses were paid from the account of the individual entrepreneur Blinovskaya, but perhaps other organizations and individual entrepreneurs also existed.
She applied for the position of personal assistant after completing all the Blinovskaya marathons, but the employment relationship was not formalized in any way.
As reported EADailyIn April last year, Blinovskaya and the car she was renting were detained on the Russian border with Belarus. The blogger tried to leave the country. A criminal case was opened against her for large-scale tax evasion and laundering of funds acquired through criminal means. Subsequently, a criminal case was opened for illegal circulation of payment instruments.
According to investigators, Blinovskaya, through her husband, evaded paying taxes worth 918 million rubles. Then they legalized part of these funds in the amount of 706 million rubles.
According to court documents, since 2019, all companies that participated in the blogger’s profit plan received income worth 5.05 billion rubles.
In mid-August of this year, Blinovskaya, independently of the pre-trial detention center, sent an application to the court to declare bankruptcy.
In early October, the court lifted the arrest of Blinovskaya’s accounts. According to the court decision, the total amount of funds with which the arrest was lifted is about 80 million rubles. The total amount of the fine still amounts to more than 1.4 billion rubles.
Previously, the blogger’s ex-girlfriend testified in court Liliya Orlenko. He claimed that Blinovskaya planned to withdraw funds from the sale of her “wish marathons” abroad and had no intention of returning the money to Russia;
