The case of blogger Portnyagin about money laundering was sent to court

A criminal case on money laundering against blogger Dmitry Portnyagin, his wife Ekaterina and their accomplice was sent to court. This was announced on April 3 by the official representative of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.

"The investigation of the criminal case against blogger Dmitry Portnyagin, his wife and their accomplice has been completed. Depending on their role and degree of participation, they are accused of money laundering and bribery (paragraph "b" of part 4 of Article 174.1, paragraph "b" of part 4 of Article 291)," Petrenko said.

It is specified that the case has been referred to the court for consideration. In addition, the operatives obtained damages in the amount of over 186 million rubles, and therefore the proceedings on the episode related to non-payment of taxes were discontinued.

Portnyagin was detained in Rostov-on-Don in a tax evasion case on April 12, 2024. 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 later carried out financial transactions with illegally obtained money, transferring more than 91 million rubles to the accounts of third legal entities.