The tax service has issued a new bill to blogger Lercek for more than 28 million rubles.

The tax service has issued a new bill to blogger Lerchek (real name — Valeria Chekalina), the amount of which exceeded 28 million rubles. On May 22, Izvestia became aware of this from the Federal Tax Service database.

"Foundation: Treasury of Russia (Federal Tax Service of Russia). Amount: 28 365,436.90 rubles," the Federal Tax Service database says.

A criminal case against the blogger and her husband Artyom, whom Chekalina subsequently divorced, was opened on October 2 last year. The ex-husband and wife, as well as their accomplice, were suspected of illegally withdrawing more than 250 million rubles from Russia to Dubai using forged documents (art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The Moscow City Court extended the defendants' house arrest until May 24.