Moscow’s Tverskoy Court released blogger and businessman Dmitry Portnyagin from house arrest on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, RIA Novosti reported.
“The court accepted the request to replace the preventive measure in the form of house arrest with a ban on certain actions,” said representatives of the court.
Let us recall that in April the Tverskoy District Court established house arrest for Dmitry Portnyagin, who was deprived of the opportunity to use the Internet and communications, where he served in a country house in the Moscow region. Portnyagin is accused of tax evasion and money laundering. His wife Ekaterina is also a suspect in this case.
As the blogger’s lawyer Evgeny Gritskov told RIA Novosti, Portnyagin is accused of tax evasion in the amount of 124 million rubles. The businessman accepted the allegations and paid the debt in full between July and September 2023. In addition, the tax authorities calculated a penalty of 64 million rubles paid to him after the start of the criminal case. The lawyer noted that the lawsuit was initiated “eight months after the principal debt was paid in full.”
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, from 2018 to 2020 the Portnyagina spouses did not pay over 124 million rubles in taxes. On charges of money laundering, the investigation believes that they carried out financial transactions with illegally obtained money and transferred more than 91 million rubles to the accounts of third parties.
Let us remind you that Dmitry Portnyagin is a businessman, the founder of the international closed business club Club 500, as well as a blogger and the author of the Transformer book series.
Source: People Talk
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