The criminal case of blogger Portnyagin on money laundering has been submitted to the court

The Moscow Meshchansky Court has filed a criminal case on money laundering against blogger Dmitry Portnyagin, charges of tax evasion have been dropped. Lawyer Evgeny Gritskov informed Izvestia about this on April 2.

It is clarified that the blogger was charged under paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Legalization of large amounts of money acquired by other persons through criminal means"). He was threatened with up to two years of restriction of liberty and deprivation of the right to engage in certain types of activities for up to three years.

In December, the court extended the ban on certain actions of Portnyagin in the case of tax evasion. At the same time, he paid off the debt to the tax in full.

Portnyagin was detained in Rostov-on-Don in the case of tax evasion on April 12. Prior to that, searches and investigative measures were carried out in the premises of the Club 500 business club and the Siberia bath complex owned by the blogger.

According to the investigation, Portnyagin evaded paying taxes in the amount of more than 124 million rubles from 2018 to 2020. In addition, he subsequently carried out financial transactions with illegally obtained money, transferring more than 91 million rubles to the accounts of third legal entities.