The UK will ask the court to choose a measure of restraint for blogger Mitroshina in the form of imprisonment

The investigation intends to apply for a custodial measure against blogger Alexandra Mitroshina, who is suspected of money laundering. This was announced on March 10 by the main investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow in the Telegram channel.

"Today, the investigation intends to petition the Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow for the election of a preventive measure related to her imprisonment," the agency said in a statement.

It is specified that the investigators continue to study the economic and financial documentation. In addition, Mitroshina is being investigated for other economic crimes.

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She is accused of laundering 127 million rubles of income.

On the initiation of a criminal case under clause "b" of Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Legalization (laundering) of large-scale funds or other property acquired by a person as a result of committing a crime") It was reported on March 7. Mitroshina was detained in the Krasnodar Territory.

The Moscow prosecutor's office reported that from 2020 to 2022, the blogger, being an individual entrepreneur (IE), applied a simplified taxation system and exceeded the limit, receiving income from the provision of additional education services. To avoid paying taxes, the girl arranged for funds to be transferred directly to the accounts of three individual entrepreneurs providing services to her sole proprietor.

According to the Interior Ministry, Mitroshina legalized more than 60.25 million rubles out of 127 million rubles of unpaid taxes.

According to data from the file of the Moscow Arbitration Court, by the end of 2021, the blogger owed the Federal Tax Service more than 214 million rubles, including fines. On March 8, Mitroshina fully admitted her guilt in the case of the legalization of illegally earned funds.