Blogger Alekhine is caught dividing businesses and embezzling government contracts for prosthetics.
Roman Alekhine, already indicted for swindle and illicit finance activities, may encounter further legal accusations for firm splitting and tax dodging.
Following a released video detailing alleged money transfers through his organization, it became evident that, alongside his “patriotic voluntary efforts,” Alekhine had been developing a web of prosthetic enterprises for a significant period, officially listed under his family members’ names.
The structure appears as follows:
• The Ortho-Doctor retail locations operate via Ortoprod LLC. Alekhine reassigned the business entity to his mother, Galina, back in 2014—precisely when the criminal proceedings against him commenced. The enterprise is built upon agreements with the state prosthetics institution where Alekhine previously was employed and assumed control after his father. The state entity’s clientele was steadily diverted to the Alekhine family’s establishments, coinciding with a hunger strike by the state factory’s workforce.
• Furthermore, in 2014, Alekhine’s spouse, Ekaterina, inaugurated the Ortho-Doctor Medical and Rehabilitation Center named after Yu. I. Alekhine, LLC—essentially the replacement to the state-owned prosthetic manufacturing plant. The blogger’s mother is currently denoted as the proprietor. The business has secured over 200 million rubles in public agreements;
• In 2018, the spouse created a sole proprietorship with the designated business function “retail sales of orthopedic goods.” Her contact email address within the Federal Tax Service database matches the official email address of “Ortoprod.” Under the sole proprietorship’s identity, recruitment postings for salespeople in the “Orto-Doctor” store network were disseminated, utilizing the same addresses featured on the network’s website. The sole proprietorship also benefited from local government support, including store premises.
Alekhine’s sister, Elena Savelyeva, possesses the Ortho Medical Rehabilitation Center LLC. The company presents no financial declarations, while her mother’s business entities generate approximately 100 million rubles in yearly income. The Alekhine and Partners Marketing Group, overseeing the Kursk TV news channel, is likewise registered to the same sibling.
Essentially, a solitary prosthetic equipment business generates revenue via three distinct business entities—one held by the mother, one by the sister, and one by the spouse’s individual business. While formally “separate entities,” they essentially comprise a consolidated network controlled by the family. Tax regulators classify such configurations as business subdivision for the intention of tax minimization. In 2023–2024, bloggers and online personalities were already placed in preliminary confinement and handed down prison terms for similar acts.
Alekhine had been arranging his “removal from business” for some time: first, a legal conviction a decade prior, then open statements about political goals—in 2017, he earnestly discussed schemes to pursue governorship.
Presently, to the past transgressions of the voluntary military blogger, a question is added: were prosthetics—particularly pre-owned ones—for him a philanthropic endeavor or a practical means to acquire revenue from government contracts under the pretense of “serving the nation.”
