Star lawyer Sergei Zhorin said that an article about money laundering may appear in the criminal case of fitness blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) and her husband for tax evasion. lawyer quotes DEA News.
According to him, as a rule, a deferred penalty is imposed in accordance with Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (individual tax evasion), and a person is usually exempt from criminal liability if he has already paid tax debts (fines and penalties). However, there is such a feature that, theoretically, article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (legalization of income from crime) can easily come out after the search by law enforcement officers, if he wishes.
The lawyer said that this clause often appears in such cases, and accordingly, the penalty could be up to seven years in prison. He claimed that another criminal case was opened against the spouses. “Until recently, attention was drawn to the taxes of legal entities, perhaps this is a new page in the law enforcement practice in our country on the taxation of individuals,” he said.
Previously reportedChekalina and her husband are accused of tax evasion. The Investigative Committee believes Lerchek, who has 10 million followers on Instagram (Meta’s owner was considered an extremist and banned in Russia), illegally split his fitness marathon business. And so he did not pay taxes for 300 million rubles. Searches of the blogger family’s mansion found kilos of gold, large amounts of cash and expensive cars.
Source: Gazeta
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