Elena Blinovskaya was detained by law enforcement officers while trying to cross the border of the Russian Federation in a rented car in the Smolensk region, the Investigative Committee of Russia reports. She was found to have air tickets to one of the CIS countries, the blogger was accompanied by a security guard.
A criminal case has been initiated against Blinovskaya for tax evasion and money laundering on an especially large scale. The reason for this was the materials received by the TFR from the tax authorities.
Elena Blinovskaya is suspected of committing crimes under Part 2 of Art. 198, paragraph “b” part 4 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of an individual from paying taxes on an especially large scale, legalization (laundering) of money on an especially large scale or other property acquired by a person as a result of committing a crime).
According to the investigation, Blinovskaya used a business splitting scheme, as a result of which she managed to reduce the amount of income and not pay VAT and personal income tax for a total amount of over 918 million rubles for three years.
“She organized the receipt of funds to the accounts of 18 interdependent and controlled organizations and 3 individual entrepreneurs using a simplified taxation system,” the Baza TV channel clarifies, adding that the blogger tried to legalize part of the funds by buying a car for her husband and paying for equipment for him. same firms.
“In addition, in order to give the appearance of lawful possession, use and disposal of the funds received, I legalized them by making financial transactions in the amount of 43 million rubles,” the ministry said in a statement.
Investigative actions against Blinovskaya are being carried out in a private house in the Millennium Park residential complex in the Istra district of the Moscow region, as well as in apartments on Paveletskaya embankment and Shvernik street. They involve operatives of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
The first information that the Federal Tax Service was digging under Blinovskaya appeared at the end of March. “To be honest, no documentary evidence came. Now it looks more like a “duck”, and nothing at all. No reason. That is, no papers, no people. Nothing at all, ”the blogger herself commented on the rumors.
A little later, she stated that “the news about the checks, and even more so the complaints from marathon participants, is fake,” suggesting that journalists conduct “elementary fact-checking” before posting loud statements.
In parallel with the dismantling of rumors, Blinovskaya with her son and husband rested in Japan, posting photos of dishes from a Michelin star restaurant and a helicopter flight. And also launched another marathon called “New Dimension”. Participation in it was estimated from 10.8 thousand rubles to up to a million. Her previous marathons have focused on relationships, desires, purpose, and expanding financial awareness.
Recall that the husband and wife Blinovsky are one of the richest Russian bloggers. As journalists found out, her family owns real estate, estimated at about 1 billion rubles. Elena and Alexei Blinovsky registered 11 properties, the most expensive of which – 400 million rubles – a house in an elite cottage village in the Istra district of the Moscow region. As well as an apartment in the center of Moscow, land plots in the Moscow region and Yalta, houses in various regions of Russia.
As BV found out, since 2006 Elena Blinovskaya has been registered with an individual entrepreneur associated with the education of children and adults. It has eight trademarks: “The Way of Desires”, two “Marathon” Attitude “,” Marathon “Destiny”, Blinovskaya.shop, Blinovskaya, “There are millions of chances”, My dream by Blinovskaya. It also signed contracts with the capital LLC “RESO-Leasing” for car leasing. Alexey Blinovskaya’s husband once headed the division of this company in Yaroslavl.
IP is on the general taxation system, in which the income threshold is not limited to the amount of 150 million rubles. There are no lawsuits for IP Blinovskaya. The blogger is also a co-founder (50%) of the Travel Atelier travel agency created last year.
Alexey Blinovsky owns shares in the Vologda “Aquaculture” (freshwater fishing, revenue for 2021 – 25.3 million rubles), as well as in the Yaroslavl “Gufo” (production of machines for the food industry, 35.1 million rubles). In 2018, he registered Almaz LLC in Moscow (retail jewelry), revenue for 2021 is 203.5 million rubles, net profit is 36.1 million rubles.
In 2019, four companies appeared in Blinovsky’s business portfolio at once. These are Murmansk Aquaculture-Khibiny (hotels, revenue 0 rubles), Krasnoyarsk Fish History (restaurant, revenue 120.2 million rubles), Moscow Olivia Group (wholesale trade, revenue 311.6 million rubles), as well as Belgorod “Give me a dream” (data processing, revenue 0 rubles).
A year later, “Give me a dream” appeared in Moscow – it is engaged in software development. Revenue in 2022 amounted to 48.5 million rubles, net profit 6.6 million rubles.
In 2021, the entrepreneur became a member of Yaroslavl Veter LLC (hotels, revenue in 2021 – 11.2 million rubles) and Krasnoyarsk Primefood (production of finished products, revenue – 14.4 million rubles). Krasnoyarsk LLC Nembus, associated with the extraction of ores, is also registered to him. In 2022, the capital’s production of clothing “Three cats” was born, owning the trademark “Trikoshki”.
Some companies are unprofitable, and financial indicators are clearly insufficient to buy real estate for a billion. Blinovskaya told the TG-channel SHOT that she “pays VAT, unlike “all the other” bloggers who are suspected of tax evasion, so she does not face problems with the Federal Tax Service.”
– According to the “queen of marathons”, she has a huge team of lawyers and accountants who deal with these issues: “Of course, if you want, you can find everything and everyone, but we keep records with dignity,” the blogger’s source quotes.
Recall that earlier high-profile criminal cases related to the additional charge of large amounts of taxes were initiated against other successful bloggers. These are the spouses Valery (ler_chek) and Artem Chekalina and the “mother of the gods” Sasha Mitroshina. They are also charged with splitting the business – the investigators believe that they scattered their income on related individual entrepreneurs in order not to pay taxes. They received additional 311 and 200 million rubles, respectively.