The case of Inna Tliashinova. How the "master of analysis" owed the tax half a million rubles

A criminal case has been opened against blogger Inna Tliashinova. She is accused of tax evasion in the amount of 431 million rubles and money laundering. She gained fame as a business coach and author of courses on quantum psychology, a pseudoscientific concept in the field of parapsychology. Tliashinova has been living in the UAE since her guards beat up a journalist from Izvestia. What is known about the blogger's problems with the law, read in the dossier.

What is Tliashinova accused of?

• A criminal case against coach and blogger Inna Tliashinova was initiated under articles on large-scale tax evasion and large-scale money laundering (Part 2 of art. 198 and paragraph "b" of Part 4 of art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case was initiated by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow region.

• The investigation found that from 2020 to 2022, Tliashinova evaded taxes totaling 431 million rubles, including a fine. The security agencies did not disclose details about money laundering.

• According to Izvestia, Tliashinova reissued an apartment under construction in the Zamoskvorechye district of the capital to another person in order to legalize her income. She also rented apartments in Moscow, the Moscow region and Rostov-on-Don. In January 2024, it became known that Tliashinova had several companies listed, but they were transferred to other persons and liquidated, that is, they became "one-day firms" that are used to avoid paying taxes.

• Tliashinova is currently on the wanted list. The investigation will ask the court to arrest her in absentia, as she is currently outside Russia. The coach has been living in the United Arab Emirates since 2024. She faces imprisonment for up to seven years.

What is known about Tliashinova

• Tliashinova was born in 1982 in the Rostov region. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Law faculty of the University of Rostov-on-Don and graduated. She married twice, and has four children with her second husband, Asker Tliashinov. The couple divorced in 2023.

• In the early 2020s, Tliashinova developed a method for supposedly achieving the success of the "Master of Analysis" and founded the International Academy of Quantum Psychology of the same name, through which she shared her life and psychological experiences with those who wished. One of the areas that Tliashinova teaches is helping couples who are unable to have children for non-physiological reasons.

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What is the reason and will they be able to regain their audience?

• The sale of courses and seminars has become Tliashinova's main source of income. Programs such as "Quantum Tunneling," "Reality Climbing," and "Singing Bowls" cost tens of thousands of rubles. The cost of subscriptions to Tliashinova's courses reached millions of rubles. Due to the high cost and extensive content of the training programs, the coach received accusations of "information fraud" on the Internet.

Tliashinova is known for her secular lifestyle and good relationships with various show business stars, including Philip Kirkorov, Yana Rudkovskaya, Lyubov Uspenskaya, and Ani Lorak. The blogger commented on various media personality issues in the media, explaining them from a psychological point of view. So, she stated that 30-year-old actress Elizaveta Arzamasova married 51-year-old figure skater Ilya Averbukh in the hope of finding a replacement for her deceased father.

In what scandals has Tliashinova been noticed

In January 2024, Izvestia journalist Natalia Grafchikova and cameraman Stas Borisov tried to get to Tliashinova's seminar in the village of Yurlovo near Moscow. The event was dedicated to the "transformation of consciousness," in connection with which the reporter intended to ask questions about the methods that are used for this. However, at the entrance, she was attacked by coach guards Vladimir Borisenko and Dmitry Ostashchenko. They beat the journalists and broke the equipment, Grafchikova had multiple bruises and bruises. Later, Tliashinova's security team received one and a half years of correctional labor.

• Tliashinova herself also showed disrespect to journalists. In 2022, she swore obscenities during an interview with video blogger Alyona Zhigalova, when she began to ask questions about psychology. Later, Tliashinova snapped at the Izvestia film crew when they asked her about her psychological education. She also used abusive words when she demanded to hand over the footage.