On Monday it became known that the “queen of marathons” Elena Blinovskaya, accused of tax evasion and tax fraud, filed for bankruptcy. Why does she need this?
According to the SHOT telegram channel, Blinovskaya filed for bankruptcy on May 31 – the day after another large-scale blocking of her accounts. Decisions on them are made by the Federal Tax Service of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) No. 6 for Moscow. The blogger’s intention to make a similar statement was reported at the beginning of last month. The document itself appeared in the files of the Moscow Arbitration Court in early June.
According to investigators, while teaching “success” courses, the blogger used a business fragmentation scheme and for 2019–2021 did not pay taxes on income totaling more than 918 million rubles and laundered about 43 million. At the same time, taking into account penalties and fines, Blinovskaya’s total debt to the tax office at the beginning of the year increased to 1.4 billion rubles and continues to grow by about half a million rubles per day.
What is Blinovskaya’s idea?
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Typically, bankruptcy is resorted to in order to get rid of debts. In bankruptcy, the first step is to seize the debtor's funds (from bank accounts, cash); if this is not enough, then his property is sold. Everything that remains after the debt is repaid remains the property of the bankrupt.
According to some reports, Blinovskaya has only a few hundred million rubles in her accounts. At the same time, the total fortune of the “marathon queen” exceeds the debt to the Federal Tax Service tens of times – her seized property alone is estimated at more than 60 billion rubles. Thus, Blinovskaya can count on the fact that after the bankruptcy procedure she will not remain a poor person. However, what exactly goes under the hammer will be determined not by her, but by the appointed manager.
Restrictions for bankrupts
During the bankruptcy procedure, Blinovskaya will not be able to sell a house or buy a car to anyone, or even donate her property – the bankrupt is prohibited from all transactions of alienation, donation of property in favor of relatives.
In addition, the blogger will not be able to make deposits, share contributions, buy shares and shares in the capital of business companies – during the procedure, the bankrupt is denied access to all monetary transactions on accounts and cards, all bank cards will be under the control of the financial manager.
Blinovskaya will be allocated a monthly minimum amount corresponding to the subsistence level in the Moscow region (where she is registered and lives).
What else did Blinovskaya do for her release?
Apparently, guided by the advice of her lawyers, Blinovskaya tried to extricate herself from the current situation in several ways.
For example, the “marathon queen” began to pay off her debt to the Federal Tax Service, but at the moment she has only managed to pay 140 million rubles.
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Since April, the property of the Blinovsky family has gone on sale. In particular, the media reported that the same two-story mansion with an area of two thousand square meters, located in Istra, near Moscow, could go under the hammer. Its approximate cost is 920 million rubles.
And an orange Lamborghini Urus, purchased by a blogger in 2021, appeared on a car sales website. The owners estimated the cost of the car at 38 million rubles.
In parallel with this, back in December last year, Blinovskaya filed a lawsuit against Federal Tax Service Inspectorate No. 6, in which she demanded that the decision to hold her accountable for committing a tax offense be invalidated. The litigation continues to this day, but so far the court is on the side of the tax authorities.
How her husband tries to help Blinovskaya
In addition, according to reports on the Internet, in April the blogger’s husband – Alexey Blinovsky — went to serve under a contract in the Northern Military District zone and, on top of everything else, allegedly invested 50 million rubles in the purchase of UAVs for the Russian army. It seems that the couple’s calculation was to use this circumstance in court to change the preventive measure for the “queen of marathons” and return Elena Blinovskaya to house arrest.
By the way, Alexei’s own situation is also steadily deteriorating. Since the beginning of the year, a number of the 12 companies officially owned by him have been in a state of liquidation – these are the IT company “Give a Dream”, the clothing company “Three Cats” and the seafood processing company “Aquaculture”. The court also began bankruptcy proceedings for the Olivia Group company.
Where is Blinovskaya now?
Since her arrest on April 28, 2023, the blogger has been under house arrest in her luxurious mansion near Moscow.
However, as it turned out, in the New Year 2024, Blinovskaya “cynically, neglecting the restrictions previously set for her,” threw a party at which more people were present than were determined by the rules of being under house arrest, and in addition, despite a categorical prohibition, visiting the prisoner A witness in one of Blinovskaya’s criminal cases, Victoria Asmolova, arrived.
As a result of the violation proceedings, in January of this year she was sent to a pre-trial detention center for a period of 3 months, and at the end of April the Moscow City Court extended her arrest until July 26. At the moment, Blinovskaya is in the capital’s detention center No. 6 “Pechatniki”.