Blogger Portnyagin, detained in a tax case, was taken to Moscow for interrogation
Popular Russian blogger and entrepreneur Dmitry Portnyagin was taken to Moscow for interrogation. About it reports Telegram channel “112”.
The blogger was detained in the Rostov region as part of a tax case.
Portnyagin and his wife are charged with large-scale tax evasion and money laundering. According to investigators, from 2018 to 2020 they did not contribute 124 million rubles to the treasury in the form of taxes, but transferred 91 million rubles from them to third parties.
On April 11, the police came to search the premises of his business club Club 500 and the Siberia bath complex. Security forces detained Portnyagin’s wife and took her to the Investigative Committee. It was later reported that she was released.
The Office of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region stated that the Portnyagins compensated for all damages in two criminal cases.
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