The investigation arrested hundreds of millions of rubles in 136 bank accounts of blogger Elena Blinovskaya and her husband Alexei Blinovsky as part of a criminal case on non-payment of 918 million rubles in taxes. This is reported by TASS with reference to law enforcement agencies.
The arrest was imposed on accounts in Tinkoff Bank JSC, Sberbank of Russia PJSC, VTB Bank PJSC, Alfa-Bank JSC, Raiffeisenbank JSC, Promsvyazbank PJSC and more than ten other banks.
“The amount of seized funds is hundreds of millions of rubles in various currencies,” the source said.
The Presnensky Court of Moscow reported that the adoption of interim measures was recognized as legal. The amount of money seized by the investigation was not specified in court.
The Federal Tax Service has been conducting a large-scale audit of bloggers and influencers for several months now. So, earlier, the Federal Tax Service became interested in the accounts of blogger Anastasia Ivleeva, she is being checked for tax evasion. The advertising agency of the leading Ivleeva Production and several dozen individual entrepreneurs and companies came under suspicion. Before that, the service began checking the company of the singer Alsou, which since 2020 reports only a zero balance, her accounts were blocked. On April 28, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sent the previously detained blogger and author of the Marathon of Wishes Elena Blinovskaya under house arrest until June 26 in a case of tax evasion for 918 million rubles and money laundering on an especially large scale. Before that, blogger Sasha Mitroshina stated that she had paid off the amount of the debt to the tax in 127 million rubles after the initiation of a criminal case, specifying that there was no intent in her actions.