The court extended the ban on certain actions to businessman Portnyagin for six months.

The court extended for six months the ban on certain actions of businessman Dmitry Portnyagin. This was announced on April 7 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

It is clarified that Portnyagin is charged under paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Legalization of criminally acquired funds by other persons").

Since April 15, 2024, the businessman has been under house arrest.

Portnyagin was detained in Rostov-on-Don in the case of tax evasion 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 entrepreneur. The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia later announced that the damage in the Portnyagin case had been fully compensated.

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 criminally obtained money, transferring more than 91 million rubles to the accounts of third legal entities. The businessman's wife Ekaterina is being investigated as a suspect in a criminal case. According to the investigation, the couple carried out financial transactions with criminally obtained money.