During interrogation, blogger Elena Blinovskaya fully admitted her guilt for non-payment of taxes and money laundering. This was reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent from the Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow.
Author:
https://rb.ru/author/lipchanskaya-anastasiya/
Subscribe to RB.RU on Telegram
In addition, to a clarifying question about her attitude to the accusation of the article on illegal circulation of payment methods, Blinovskaya responded that, as a manager, she was responsible for this and therefore admitted her guilt.
The blogger added that she wrote a confession in the tax evasion case immediately after the start of the investigation, a TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom.
“I fully admit my guilt for tax evasion. As for the other episodes, I recognize the facts with which I am accused and the legal evaluation will remain in the hands of the court,” Blinovskaya said.
In early October 2024, the court lifted the arrest of the blogger’s accounts. Her lawyers insisted on lifting the arrest so that Blinovskaya could pay her debt to the Federal Tax Service (FTS).
Blinovskaya was detained in April 2023 while trying to cross the Russian border into Belarus. The blogger was accused of tax evasion worth 918 million rubles and money laundering. The Federal Tax Service estimated Blinovskaya’s debt at 1.4 billion rubles, taking into account fines and penalties.
Author:
Anastasia Lipchanskaya
Source: RB

I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.