The Butyrsky Court in Moscow lifted the arrest of the bank accounts of the blogger and founder of the wish marathons Elena Blinovskaya, accused of tax evasion and money laundering.
“The court decided to satisfy the defense’s request to lift the provisional detention of the accounts of the accused Blinovskaya.” – TASS cites the court decision.
The lawyers insisted on unblocking accounts to settle tax debts.
According to the court decision, the total amount of funds from which the seizure was made is about 80 million rubles. 12 accounts of Blinovskaya and her husband at T-Bank, Sberbank, VTB Bank, Sovcombank and Promsvyazbank were unblocked.
At the same time, the Moscow District Arbitration Court refused to reduce the fine imposed on Blinovskaya to the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service).
The service considers that Blinovskaya is not a bona fide taxpayer, since the inspectorate had previously established that she used schemes aimed at illegally reducing her tax obligations, for example, by dividing her business.
The total amount of the fine still amounts to more than 1.4 billion rubles.
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.
At the same time, he filed a lawsuit against Beget LLC, which sells the marathons he created for 5 thousand instead of 110 thousand rubles. So far, the Moscow City Court has dismissed the lawsuit, as the request is outside its jurisdiction.
