In connection with a criminal case against blogger Elena Blinovskaya and her husband Alexei Blinovsky, law enforcement agencies seized funds from 136 spouses’ bank accounts. On this subject informed CASS.
The Presnensky court in Moscow upheld the legality of the arrest of funds in the accounts of Blinovskaya and her husband, Lela Kokaya, the court’s press secretary, told the agency. Interim measures affected the accounts of the spouses with Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, VTB, Raiffeisenbank, Promsvyazbank, Tinkoff Bank and other financial institutions. The amount of funds seized is not specified.
Elena Blinovskaya is accused of tax evasion in the amount of 919 million rubles, as well as large-scale money laundering. She faces up to three years in prison on the first charge and up to seven years on the second. At the end of April, the court sent the blogger under house arrest.
Aleksey Blinovsky is charged with complicity in tax evasion and money laundering. Investigators say he helped his wife underestimate the earnings by “crushing” the business.
During one of the interrogations, according to the investigative committee, Blinovskaya repented and admitted her guilt, and also promised to pay the debt to the budget. However, the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, later said that the blogger covered only a “minor part” of the tax debt, paying 10 million rubles. over nearly a billion dollars.
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